Longevity Expectations and Death: Can People Predict Their Own Demise?
By V. By, Kerry Smith, Donald, Taylor, Frank, Sloan. 2001
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Subfields: Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology
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- Annuitization and asset allocation (2007, background): “Ṽ (y) = D1y B1 +D2y B2 + y r + C2y 1− 1 γ , (48) with D1 and D2 constants to be determined by the boundary conditions, with C2 given by”
- Human Capital Inequality, Life Expectancy and Economic Growth (2008, unknown): “5 Smith et al. (2001) , using the HRS, find that subjective perceptions of mortality are good predictors of observed mortality.”
- Multiple Dimensions of Private Information: Evidence from the Long-Term Care Insurance Market. (2006, background): “In the empirical work below, we discuss how we account for the potential effects such as the individual's age or health status (Daniel S. Hamermesh, 1985; V. Kerry Smith et al., 2001; Michael D. Hurd and McGarry, 2002).”
- How Do College Students Form Expectations? (2011, unknown): “…junior year, when students had presumably settled on their final 6 Longitudinal studies of subjective data include Bernheim (1988), Dominitz (1998), Smith et al. (2001), Benitez-Silva and Dwyer (2005), and Lochner (2007), who analyze revisions to expectations of social security benefits, earnings,…”
- Valuing Changes in Mortality Risk: Lives Saved Versus Life Years Saved (2007, background): “These responses provide useful information about perceived longevity, but whether they can be interpreted as measures of subjective probability is debatable (e.g., Hurd and McGarry 1995, 2002; Smith et al. 2001; Viscusi and Hakes 2003).”
- Overconfidence in Forecasts of Own Performance: An Experimental Study (2009, unknown): “These predictions are then compared with either current aggregate realizations (Hamermesh, 1985; Fischoff et al., 2000; Hurd and Rohwedder, 2003) or, where longitudinal data is available, with actual individual realizations (Das and van Soest, 1997, 1999; Dominitz, 1998; Smith, 2001).”