Research Catalog

Title

Essays on saving, bequests, altruism, and life-cycle planning / [edited by] Laurence J. Kotlikoff.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

Kotlikoff, Laurence J.

Description

x, 568 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Saving and investment > United States
• Altruism > United States
• Retirement > United States > Planning
• Income distribution > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. Saving and Bequests. 1. Understanding the Postwar Decline in U.S. Saving: A Cohort Analysis / Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Jagadeesh Gokhale and John Sabelhaus. 2. The Annuitization of Americans' Resources: A Cohort Analysis / Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Alan J. Auerbach and Jagadeesh Gokhale / [et al.]. 3. Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality via Bequests / Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Jagadeesh Gokhale and James Sefton / [et al.] -- II. Altruism. 4. Intergenerational Altruism and the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy - New Tests Based on Cohort Data / Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Andrew B. Abel. 5. Is the Extended Family Altruistically Linked? Direct Tests Using Micro Data / Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Joseph G. Altonji and Fumio Hayashi. 6. Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence / Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Joseph G. Altonji and Fumio Hayashi.
• 7. A Strategic Altruism Model in Which Ricardian Equivalence Does Not Hold / Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Assaf Razin and Robert W. Rosenthal. 8. Making Bequests without Spoiling Children: Bequests as an Implicit Optimal Tax Structure and the Possibility that Altruistic Bequests are Not Equalizing / Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Assaf Razin -- III. Life-Cycle Planning. 9. Looking for the News in the Noise: Additional Stochastic Implications of Optimal Consumption Choice / Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Ariel Pakes. 10. Can People Compute? An Experimental Test of the Life-Cycle Consumption Model / Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Stephen Johnson and William Samuelson. 11. Life Insurance of the Elderly: Adequacy and Determinants / Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Alan J. Auerbach. 12. Household Financial Planning and Financial Literacy: The Need for New Tools / Laurence J. Kotlikoff and B. Douglas Bernheim.
• 13. How Much Should Americans Be Saving for Retirement? / Laurence J. Kotlikoff, B. Douglas Bernheim and Lorenzo Forni / [et al.]. 14. Comparing the Economic and Conventional Approaches to Financial Planning / Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Jagadeesh Gokhale and Mark J. Warshawsky.

ISBN

0262112620 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00068383

OCLC

• ocm45506020
• SCSB-4153023

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries