Replication data for: Annuities and Individual Welfare
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Thomas Davidoff; Jeffrey R. Brown; Peter A. Diamond
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Project Citation:
Davidoff, Thomas, Brown, Jeffrey R., and Diamond, Peter A. Replication data for: Annuities and Individual Welfare. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2005. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116066V1
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Summary:
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Advancing annuity demand theory, we present sufficient conditions for the optimality of full annuitization under market completeness which are substantially less restrictive than those used by Menahem E. Yaari (1965). We examine demand with market incompleteness, finding that positive annuitization remains optimal widely, but complete annuitization does not. How uninsured medical expenses affect demand for illiquid annuities depends critically on the timing of the risk. A new set of calculations with optimal consumption trajectories very different from available annuity income streams still shows a preference for considerable annuitization, suggesting that limited annuity purchases are plausibly due to psychological or behavioral biases.
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JEL Classification:
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D64 Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
D91 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
G22 Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
D64 Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
D91 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
G22 Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
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