University thesis:
Dissertation, University of Copenhagen, 2021
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Description:
This PhD dissertation consists of four self-contained chapters. The first two chapters study how the design of public pension systems affect individuals' behavior. The first chapter studies how pension eligibility ages impact the retirement behavior of couples. The second chapter explores how public pension provision impacts private savings. The third chapter of this dissertation studies how optimal inheritance taxation depends on the social welfare function assumed and on the underlying individual heterogeneity. Finally, the fourth chapter explores human capital formation by estimating the causal effect of parental shocks on their children's non-cognitive skills.