Franco Modigliani and the life cycle theory of consumption

A Deaton - Available at SSRN 686475, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
In the early 1950s, Franco Modigliani and his student Richard Brumberg worked out a theory
of spending based on the idea that people make intelligent choices about how much they …

Households matter: the quiet demography of urban transformation

S Buzar, PE Ogden, R Hall - Progress in Human Geography, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
During the last three decades, the household has become the focus of a wide range of
sociodemographic processes, including the destabilization of traditional patterns of …

[PDF][PDF] 人口结构和储蓄: 亚洲的经验证据及其对中国的意义

保罗, 舒尔茨 - 经济学(季刊), 2005 - nsd.pku.edu.cn
摘要生命周期储蓄是对亚洲近来出现的储蓄上升与经济增长现象的一种可能的解释. 根据I (; $—I
(($ 年间对I'个亚洲国家和地区的观察, 一个国家人口的年龄构成与储蓄率之间的关系在我们重新 …

Women and retirement incomes in Australia: A review

T Jefferson - Economic Record, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
More than 60 per cent of age pensioners in Australia are women. Although public policy
encourages private saving for retirement through compulsory superannuation, projections of …

Demographic determinants of savings: estimating and interpreting the aggregate association in Asia

TP Schultz - Available at SSRN 639187, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Life cycle savings is proposed as one explanation for much of the increase in savings and
economic growth in Asia. The association between the age composition of a nation's …

A measure of legal independence”: The 1870 Married Women's Property Act and the portfolio allocations of British wives

MB Combs - The Journal of Economic History, 2005 - cambridge.org
I examine the portfolio allocations of women married in the years surrounding the 1870
Married Women's Property Act. The act, which gave women married after 1870 the right to …

Modigliani's life-cycle theory of savings fifty years later

M Baranzini - PSL Quarterly Review, 2005 - rosa.uniroma1.it
In the 1950s, Modigliani proposed a theory of spending in which people make intelligent
choices about their spending at each age limited by the resources available over their lives …

Does the balance of power within a family matter? The case of the Retirement Equity Act

S Aura - Journal of Public Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper studies within-family decision making regarding investment in income protection
for surviving spouses using a simple and tractable Nash-bargaining model. A change in US …

Intergenerational transfers and demographic transition

K Blackburn, GP Cipriani - Journal of development Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper presents an analysis of demographic transition based on the endogenous
evolution of intergenerational transfers along an economy's endogenous path of …

Le soutien familial intergénérationnel dans l'Europe élargie

J Ogg, S Renaut - Retraite et société, 2005 - cairn.info
Quelle est la nature du soutien familial apporté aux plus âgés dans une Europe qui vieillit?
Sur la base d'une enquête internationale, trois dimensions du soutien familial sont étudiées …