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Depressed Demand
(2020-02-14)
Using a survey of Dutch households, we find that individuals who have experienced higher national unemployment rates over their lifetime save more and borrow less, after controlling for aggregate shocks, income, wealth, ...
Time Preferences over the Life Cycle
(2020-02-01)
We study whether and how time preferences change over the life cycle, exploiting representative long-term panel data. We estimate the age patterns of discount rates from age 25 to 80. In order to identify age effects, we ...
Financial Literacy and Self-Control in FinTech: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Online Consumer Borrowing
(2019-10-14)
We report the results of a longitudinal intervention with students across five universities in China designed to reduce online consumer debt. Our research design allocates individuals to either a financial literacy treatment, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Exposure to the COVID-19 Stock Market Crash and its Effect on Household Expectations
(2020-05-21)
We survey a representative sample of US households to study how exposure to the COVID-19 stock market crash affects expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations ...
The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures
(2020-09-21)
Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. ...
On the (ir)relevance of monetary incentives in risk preference elicitation experiments
(2020-08-31)
Incentivized experiments in which individuals receive monetary rewards according to the outcomes of their decisions are regarded as the gold standard for preference elicitation in experimental economics. These task-related ...
When Should Retirees Tap Their Home Equity?
(2020-10-28)
This paper studies a household’s optimal demand for a reverse mortgage. These contracts allow homeowners to tap their home equity to finance consumption needs. In stylized frameworks, we show that the decision to enter a ...
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Policies Against a Pandemic
(2020-11-12)
We develop a novel empirical approach to identify the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic. The essence of our approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than over time. We ...