A CLOSE LOOK AT DISSAVING IN THE LONGITUDINAL RETIREMENT HISTORY SURVEY

Michael Kuehlwein

Review of Income and Wealth, 1995, vol. 41, issue 2, 161-176

Abstract: Hurd (1987) provided evidence from the Longitudinal Retirement History Survey that the retired elderly dissave. This paper attempts to refine and extend that analysis in several ways. I determine how sensitive his results are to his method for estimating missing data. I calculate median dissaving rates, a more robust measure of dissaving. I provide confidence intervals for those rates. Finally, 1 compute estimates based on a method that weights all households equally. The results are mixed. Hurd's dissaving finding is confirmed in many specifications, but questions are raised about dissaving among couples and the method of elderly dissaving.

Date: 1995
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