Add to ORKGThis article shows that the elderly, especially those with high lifetime incomes, maintain large asset holdings to account for the possibility of their living a long time and facing high medical expenses.Medical care ; Life expectancy ; Income
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2005."September 2005."In...
Recent economic research has suggested that Medicaid long-term insurance rnay reduce thc personal sa...
The old age provisions of the Medicaid program were designed to insure poor retirees against medical...
Rich people, women, and healthy people live longer. We document that this heterogeneity in life expe...
This paper constructs a rich model of saving for retired single people. Our framework allows for beq...
People have heterogenous life expectancies: women live longer than men, rich people live longer than...
Using data from the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old survey, the authors find that the as...
Life-cycle choices and outcomes over financial (e.g., savings, portfolio, work) and health-related v...
This paper constructs a rich model of saving for retired single peo-ple. Our framework allows for be...
It is a well-established fact that many retirees do not utilize their accumulated housing equity to ...
This paper analyzes the risky investment decisions of the elderly in the United States. Utilizing t...
We consider a life-cycle model with idiosyncratic risk in labor earnings, out-of-pocket medical and ...
Low saving rates raise questions about Americans' ability to maintain consumption levels in old age....
People have heterogenous life expectancies: women live longer than men, rich people live longer than...
Using data the Health and Retirement Survey and the Assets and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old,...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2005."September 2005."In...
Recent economic research has suggested that Medicaid long-term insurance rnay reduce thc personal sa...
The old age provisions of the Medicaid program were designed to insure poor retirees against medical...
Rich people, women, and healthy people live longer. We document that this heterogeneity in life expe...
This paper constructs a rich model of saving for retired single people. Our framework allows for beq...
People have heterogenous life expectancies: women live longer than men, rich people live longer than...
Using data from the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old survey, the authors find that the as...
Life-cycle choices and outcomes over financial (e.g., savings, portfolio, work) and health-related v...
This paper constructs a rich model of saving for retired single peo-ple. Our framework allows for be...
It is a well-established fact that many retirees do not utilize their accumulated housing equity to ...
This paper analyzes the risky investment decisions of the elderly in the United States. Utilizing t...
We consider a life-cycle model with idiosyncratic risk in labor earnings, out-of-pocket medical and ...
Low saving rates raise questions about Americans' ability to maintain consumption levels in old age....
People have heterogenous life expectancies: women live longer than men, rich people live longer than...
Using data the Health and Retirement Survey and the Assets and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old,...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2005."September 2005."In...
Recent economic research has suggested that Medicaid long-term insurance rnay reduce thc personal sa...
The old age provisions of the Medicaid program were designed to insure poor retirees against medical...