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In: Review of Finance, Volume 20, Issue 6, pp. 2349-2377, October 2016, DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfv064
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 20, 2013 erstellt
Beschreibung:
Based on the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) and the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show that household consumption drops after a child moves out of a household, while at the same time, per capita consumption increases significantly. Parents approximately upgrade their personal lifestyle up to the level of childless peers after all children are gone and save only a small proportion of the freed-up resources. Since parents had fewer resources to save while they were young, retirement preparedness among them is a more serious concern than among childless individuals