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Title: Saving Behavior of Older Households: Rate-of-Return, Precautionary and Inheritance Effects
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1. Jianakoplos, Nancy Ammon
Menchik, Paul L.
Irvine, F. Owen
Saving Behavior of Older Households: Rate-of-Return, Precautionary and Inheritance Effects
Economics Letters 50 (1996): 111-121.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0165176595007202
Cohort(s): Older Men
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Inheritance; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Life Cycle Research; Retirement/Retirement Planning; Savings; Transfers, Family

We estimate a model of household saving behavior using data from a panel of men nearing retirement age. We seek and find statistically significant rate-of-return, precautionary and intergenerational-transfer effects embedded within a retirement-consumption life-cycle model. Copyright 1996 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.
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Jianakoplos, Nancy Ammon, Paul L. Menchik and F. Owen Irvine. "Saving Behavior of Older Households: Rate-of-Return, Precautionary and Inheritance Effects." Economics Letters 50 (1996): 111-121.