Estimating Life-Cycle Parameters from Consumption Behavior at Retirement
dc.contributor.author | Laitner, John P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Silverman, Daniel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-04-24T19:42:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-04-24T19:42:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-02 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/50520 | |
dc.description.abstract | Using pseudo-panel data, we estimate the structural parameters of a life-cycle consumption model with discrete labor supply choice. A focus of our analysis is the abrupt drop in consumption upon retirement for a typical household. The literature sometimes refers to the drop, which in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey we estimate to be approximately 16%, as the "retirement-consumption puzzle." Although a downward step in consumption at retirement contradicts predictions from life-cycle models with additively separable consumption and leisure, or with continuous work-hour options, a consumption jump is consistent with a setup having nonseparable preferences over consumption and leisure and requiring discrete work choices. This paper specifies a life-cycle model with these latter two elements, and it uses the empirical magnitude of the drop in consumption at retirement to provide an advantageous method of identifying structural parameters-most importantly, the intertemporal elasticity of substitution. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Social Security Administration | en |
dc.format.extent | 451202 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.publisher | Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | WP 2005-099 | en |
dc.title | Estimating Life-Cycle Parameters from Consumption Behavior at Retirement | en |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Population and Demography | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | MRRC | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/50520/1/wp099.pdf | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Retirement and Disability Research Center, Michigan (MRDRC) |
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