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

Title
Essays on saving, bequests, altruism, and life-cycle planning / Laurence J. Kotlikoff.
Author
Kotlikoff, Laurence J.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.

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Description
x, 568 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Saving and investment > United States
  • Retirement > United States > Planning
  • Income distribution > United States
  • Altruism > United States
Note
  • "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].
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JBE 01-1880
ISBN
0262112620 (hc. : alk. paper)
LCCN
00068383
OCLC
45506020
Author
Kotlikoff, Laurence J.
Title
Essays on saving, bequests, altruism, and life-cycle planning / Laurence J. Kotlikoff.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JBE 01-1880
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