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Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings

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  • Mariacristina De Nardi
  • Eric French
  • John Bailey Jones

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Rich people, women, and healthy people live longer. We document that this heterogeneity in life expectancy is large, and we use an estimated structural model to assess its effect on the elderly's saving. We find that the differences in life expectancy related to observable factors such as income, gender, and health have large effects on savings, and that these factors contribute by similar amounts. We also show that the risk of outliving one's expected lifespan has a large effect on the elderly's saving behavior.

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Volume (Year): 99 (2009)
Issue (Month): 2 (May)
Pages: 110-115

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Handle: RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:99:y:2009:i:2:p:110-15
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.99.2.110
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  • D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
  • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
  • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

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  1. Michael D. Hurd & Daniel McFadden & Angela Merrill, 2001. "Predictors of Mortality among the Elderly," NBER Chapters,in: Themes in the Economics of Aging, pages 171-198 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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  1. Explaining heterogeneity in individual saving rates
    by Economic Logician in Economic Logic on 2009-01-24 02:38:00
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