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Essays on saving, bequests, altruism, and life-cycle planning
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Essays on saving, bequests, altruism, and life-cycle planning

Author: Laurence J Kotlikoff
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Laurence J Kotlikoff
ISBN: 0262112620 9780262112628
OCLC Number: 45506020
Notes: "This book brings together fourteen articles I've co-authored in recent years. Four ... have never been published. Many of the rest were published in specialized books and journals"--P. [1].
Description: x, 568 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Understanding the postwar decline in U.S. savings: a cohort analysis / with Jagadeesh Gokhale and John Sabelhaus -- The annuitization of Americans' resources: a cohort analysis / with Alan J. Auerbach ... [et al.] -- Simulating the transmission of wealth inequality via bequests / with Jagadeesh Gokhale, James Sefton, and Martin Weale -- Intergenerational altruism and the effectiveness of fiscal policy: new tests based on cohort data / with Andrew B. Abel -- Is the extended family altruistically linked? direct tests using micro data / with Joseph G. Altonji and Fumio Hayashi -- Parental altruism and inter vivos transfers: theory and evidence / with Joseph G. Altonji and Fumio Hayashi -- A strategic altruism model in which Ricardian equivalence does not hold / with Assaf Razin and Robert W. Rosenthal -- Making bequests without spoiling children: bequests as an implicit optimal tax structure and the possibility that altruistic bequests are not equalizing / with Assaf Razin -- Looking for the news in the noise: additional stochastic implications of optimal consumption choice / with Ariél Pakes -- Can people compute? an experimental test of the life-cycle consumption model / with Stephen Johnson and William Samuelson -- Life insurance of the elderly: adequacy and determinants / with Alan J. Auerbach -- Household financial planning and financial literacy: the need for new tools / with B. Douglas Bernheim -- How much should Americans be saving for retirement? / with B. Douglas Bernheim, Lorenzo Forni, and Jagadeesh -- Comparing the economic and conventional approaches to financial planning / with Jagadeesh Gokhale and Mark J. Warshawsky.
Responsibility: Laurence J. Kotlikoff.

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