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Who Invests in Home Equity to Exempt Wealth from Bankruptcy?
(2013-05-01)
Homestead exemptions to personal bankruptcy allow households to retain their home equity up to a limit determined at the state level. Households that may experience bankruptcy thus have an incentive to bias their portfolios ...
Will They Take the Money and Work? An Empirical Analysis of People’s Willingness to Delay Claiming Social Security Benefits for a Lump Sum
(2014-01-01)
This paper investigates whether exchanging the Social Security delayed retirement credit, currently paid as an increase in lifetime annuity benefits, for a lump sum would induce later claiming and additional work. We show ...
Optimal Social Security Claiming Behavior under Lump Sum Incentives: Theory and Evidence
(2017-01-31)
People who delay claiming Social Security receive higher lifelong benefits upon retirement. We survey individuals on their willingness to delay claiming later, if they could receive a lump sum in lieu of a higher annuity ...
Older People’s Willingness to Delay Social Security Claiming
(2016-09-01)
We designed and fielded an experimental module in the 2014 HRS which seeks to measure older persons’ willingness to voluntarily defer claiming of Social Security benefits. In addition we evaluate the stated willingness of ...
Explaining Intra-Monthly Consumption Patterns: The Timing of Income or the Timing of Consumption Commitments?
(2018-11-01)
A number of recent studies have concluded that consumer spending patterns over the month are closely linked to the timing of income receipt. This correlation is interpreted as evidence of hyperbolic discounting. I re-examine ...
Job Loss Expectations, Durable Consumption and Household Finances: Evidence from Linked Survey Data
(2019-03-01)
Job security is important for durable consumption and household savings. Using surveys, workers express a probability that they will lose their job in the next 12 months. In order to assess the empirical content of these ...
Higher-Order Income Risk over the Business Cycle: A Parametric Approach
(2020-03-24)
We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher- order risk. We estimate our extended income process by ...
Risk Taking, Preferences, and Beliefs: Evidence from Wuhan
(2020-03-24)
We study risk taking in a panel of subjects in Wuhan, China - before, during the COVID-19 crisis, and after the country reopened. Subjects in our sample traveled for semester break in January, generating variation in ...
DHS
The DNB Household Survey (DHS) offers a unique collection of data that allows the study of both psychological and economic aspects of financial behavior; a panel study among 2000 households that has been active since 1993. ...
ACS
The American Community Survey (ACS) helps local officials, community leaders, and businesses understand the changes taking place in their communities. It is the premier source for detailed population and housing information ...