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Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure 解构生命周期支出
Mark Aguiar, Erik Hurst
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引用次数: 127
The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior 健康保险与自我保险对退休行为的影响
University of Michigan Retirement Research Center Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2007-10-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.295560
Eric French, J. Jones
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引用次数: 439
The Responsiveness of Private Savings to Medicaid Long Term Care Policies 私人储蓄对医疗补助长期护理政策的反应
University of Michigan Retirement Research Center Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2007-01-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1095814
P. Sevak, Lina Walker
{"title":"The Responsiveness of Private Savings to Medicaid Long Term Care Policies","authors":"P. Sevak, Lina Walker","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1095814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1095814","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the extent to which private savings responds to the availability of a social insurance program. We focus on the Medicaid nursing home assistance program and uses variation in state Medicaid policies in the 1960s and 1990s to identify whether household wealth correlates negatively with access to public insurance coverage. We use data from the 1962 and 1970 Survey of Consumer Finances and the 1992 through 2002 Health and Retirement Study. We find that household savings in 1970 was substantially lower in states with easier access to Medicaid assistance and that household savings in the 1990s was lower when access to the Medicaid program was lower.","PeriodicalId":164882,"journal":{"name":"University of Michigan Retirement Research Center Research Paper Series","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131088702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
The Impact of Financial Education on Savings and Asset Allocation 金融教育对储蓄和资产配置的影响
University of Michigan Retirement Research Center Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2003-10-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1092150
A. Lusardi
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引用次数: 20
Disability Benefits as Social Insurance: Tradeoffs between Screening Stringency and Benefit Generosity in Optimal Program Design 残疾福利作为社会保险:最优方案设计中筛选严格性与福利慷慨性的权衡
University of Michigan Retirement Research Center Research Paper Series Pub Date : 2003-04-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1090897
T. Waidmann, J. Bound, A. Nichols
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引用次数: 8
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