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Control Thyself: Self-Control Failure and Household Wealth
(2014-10-09)
We examine the relationship between household wealth and self-control. Although self-control has been linked to consumption and financial behavior, its measurement remains an open issue. We employ a definition of self-control ...
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 ...
The Impact of Long-Run Macroeconomic Experiences on Personality
(2016-08-01)
Using two datasets containing demographically representative samples of the Dutch population, I study how lifetime experiences of aggregate labor market conditions affect personality. Three sets of findings are reported. ...
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 ...
Consuming Dividends
(2020-05-01)
This paper studies why investors buy dividend-paying assets and how they time their consumption accordingly. We combine administrative bank data linking customers’ consumption transactions and income to detailed portfolio ...
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. ...
CE(X)
The Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE or CEX) program provides data on expenditures, income, and demographic characteristics of consumers in the United States. The CE program provides these data in tables, LABSTAT database, ...
HRS
The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a longitudinal panel study that surveys a representative sample of approximately 20,000 people in America, supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA ...
LISS
The LISS panel (Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social sciences) is the principal component of the MESS project. It consists of 5,000 households, comprising approximately 7,500 individuals. The panel is based on a ...
BHH Administrative data
A unique dataset from a large German bank which features information on customer demographics, categorized current account transactions, portfolio holdings, and individual trading records.