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LIFE-CYCLE SAVINGS AND PUBLIC POLICY
Life-Cycle Savings and Public PolicyA Cross-National Study of Six Countries
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Edited By
Axel Börsch-Supan, Universitat Mannheim, Germany

Description
The key to understanding household saving is obtaining appropriate data. Dealing with differences between rich and poor households, for example, or the old and the young, require observation of a large number of households. The focus of this study is to obtain data on many households from a number of different countries and to examine them in a coherent fashion. The hope is that through these observations we can learn about the ways policies affect savings and that other differences among savers can be controlled for, instead of being blamed on "cultural differences

Contents
A. Boersch-Supan, IntroductionA. Brugiavaini and G. Weber, Household Saving: Concepts and MeasurementA. Boersch-Supan, A. Reil-Held, and R. Schnabel, Household Saving in GermanyA. Brugiavaini and M. Padula, Household Saving Behavior and Pension Policies in ItalyY. Kitamura, N. Takayama, and F. Arita, Household Savings and Wealth Distribution in JapanR. Alessi and A. Kapteyn,Savings and Pensions in the NetherlandsJ. Banks and S. Rohwedder, Pensions and Life Cycle Savings Profiles in the U.K.O.P. Attanasio and M. Paiella, Household Saving Behavior and Pension Policies in the U.S.

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 402 pages, publication date: DEC-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-109891-9
ISBN-10: 0-12-109891-5
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS

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