The Joy of Giving or Assisted Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Public Care Aversion from Bequest Motives
By J. Ameriks, Andrew Caplin, Steven Laufer, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. 2011
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Subfields: Accounting, Demography, General Health Professions
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- YOLO: Mortality Beliefs and Household Finance Puzzles (2015, unknown): “(1985); Hurd (1989)) and public care aversion (Ameriks et al. (2011)), as well as their interaction with wealth inequality (De Nardi and Yang (2015)) and health (Palumbo (1999); Lockwood (2014)). Relative to this literature, an advantage of our approach is that we can jointly describe savings behavi”
- Incidental Bequests: Bequest Motives and the Choice to Self-Insure Late-Life Risks (2014, methodology): “Ameriks et al. (2011) use responses to survey questions about people’s state-contingent plans, and De Nardi, French and Jones (2013) use Medicaid recipiency rates.”
- Savings After Retirement: A Survey (2016, unknown): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. Ameriks et al. (2011, 2015) reach a somewhat different conclusion by considering the responses to strategic survey questions that present the respondents with hypothetical trade-offs between consuming LTC and leaving bequests.”
- Long-Term-Care Utility and Late-in-Life Saving (2020, unknown): “We develop a series of strategic survey questions (SSQs) to help identify preference parameters (see Barsky et al. 1997 and Ameriks et al. 2011).”
- What Determines Annuity Demand at Retirement? (2012, unknown): “For instance: Ameriks et al. (2011), Horneff et al. (2009, 2010), Butler et al. (2011). 11 Surveys of the development of annuity markets around the world can be found in James and Song (2002), Mackenzie (2006), and Cannon and Tonks (2008).”
- Accounting for non-annuitization (2010, unknown): “The fact that housing is decumulated at a substantially slower rate than other types of wealth suggests that retirees treat housing differently from other assets.(1) Since housing constitutes a significant portion of retirement wealth, this can also affect the retirees’ willingness to annuitize.”