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This paper provides a critical survey of the large literature on the life cycle model of consumption, both from an empirical and a theoretical point of view. It discusses several approaches that have been taken in the literature to bring the model to the data, their empirical successes and failures. Finally, the paper reviews a number of changes to the standard life cycle model that could help solve the remaining empirical puzzles.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 15756.

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• D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
• D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
• E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth

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1. Attanasio and Weber Review of Theories of Consumption and Savings
   by Liam Delaney in Geary Behaviour Centre on 2010-08-30 20:43:00

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13. Davoine, Thomas, 2012. "Time constraints, saving and old age," Economics Working Paper Series 1221, University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science.
14. Miguel Sánchez Romero, 2011. "The role of demography on per capita output growth and saving rates," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2011-015, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
15. Herrala, Risto, 2010. "Credit constraints and durable consumption," Research Discussion Papers 15/2010, Bank of Finland.
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17. Stephen C. Newbold, 2011. "Valuing Health Risk Changes Using a Life-Cycle Consumption Framework," NCEE Working Paper Series 201103, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, revised Apr 2011.

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