Asset Holdings and the Life Cycle

Mervyn A. King and Louis Dicks-Mireaux

No 614, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Empirical studies of the life cycle savings model have tended to rej ect the hypothesis of a "hump-shaped" pattern for the wealth-age profile. In this paper we show, using new data on net worth for 12,734 families, that there is evidence that wealth declines after retirement provided that we control for differences in permanent income and take account of sample selection bias. The estimated rates of decumulation are consistent with a life cycle model in which there is uncertainty about the date of death.

Date: 1981-01
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Published as King, M. A. and Dicks-Mireaux, L-D. L. "Asset Holdings and the Life Cycle." Economic Journal, Vol. 92, No. 366 (June 1982), pp. 247-267.

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