This chapter reviews the theoretical and empirical issues dealing with Social Security
pensions. The first part of the chapter discusses pure pay-as-you-go plans. It considers the …

Saving promotion interventions have gained momentum in international development in
recent years. Our analysis investigates whether saving promotion can effectively increase …

Micro data studies of household saving often find a significant group in the population with
virtually no wealth, raising concerns about heterogeneity in motives for saving. In particular …

Behavioral law and economics (BLE) has been broadly regarded in recent years as among
the most promising and exciting new developments in public policymaking theory and …

考虑到家庭可能面临信贷约束, 同时可能有目标储蓄的动机, 当期养老金缴费可能会减少当期可
支配收入, 进而抑制消费, 并可能提高储蓄率. 使用城镇住户调查2002—2009 年9 省市的数据 …

The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for
analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original …

This paper compares the age-wealth distribution produced in life-cycle economies to the
corresponding distribution in the US economy. The idea is to calibrate the model economies …

Transitions from high mortality and fertility to low mortality and fertility can be beneficial to
economies as large baby boom cohorts enter the workforce and save for retirement, while …

This paper suggests that precautionary savings against uncertain income can comprise a
large fraction of aggregate savings. A closed-form approximation of life cycle consumption …

This paper uses a new, large-scale, dynamic life-cycle simulation model to compare the
welfare and macroeconomic effects of transitions to five fundamental alternatives to the US …