Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance

Uncertain Lifetime, Life Insurance, and the Theory of the Consumer

1965 • 3,214 citations

Understanding Consumption

1992 • 1,376 citations

The Buffer-Stock Theory of Saving: Some Macroeconomic Evidence

1992 • 1,076 citations

Optimal Consumption with Stochastic Income: Deviations from Certainty Equivalence

1989 • 925 citations

Poverty and the Rate of Time Preference: Evidence from Panel Data

1991 • 924 citations

The use of time series processes to model the error structure of earnings in a longitudinal data analysis

1982 • 887 citations

Mortality Risk and Bequests

1989 • 708 citations

On the Covariance Structure of Earnings and Hours Changes

1989 • 623 citations

Time Preference and Health: An Exploratory Study

1982 • 531 citations

Risky income, life cycle consumption, and precautionary savings

1988 • 521 citations

The importance of precautionary motives in explaining individual and aggregate saving

1994 • 500 citations

Uncertain Lifetime, Consumption, and Dissaving in Retirement

1981 • 452 citations

Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy

1992 • 428 citations

Earnings Uncertainty and Aggregate Wealth Accumulation

1991 • 257 citations

Wealth-varying intertemporal elasticities of substitution: Evidence from panel and aggregate data

1996 • 246 citations

Random earnings differences, lifetime liquidity constraints, and altruistic intergenerational transfers

1992 • 167 citations

Estimating the Value of an In-Kind Transfer: The Case of Food Stamps

1989 • 166 citations

Expanding the life-cycle model: Precautionary saving and public policy

1994 • 140 citations

Variable Lifespan and the Intertemporal Elasticity of Consumption

1985 • 82 citations

Survey estimates of wealth: An assessment of quality

1988 • 76 citations

The Relation between Return and Income

1987 • 41 citations

LIFE-TABLES FOR THE UNITED STATES.

1922 • 41 citations

Poverty in America: Is Welfare the Answer or the Problem?

1985 • 39 citations

The consumption function and the precautionary demand for savings

1985 • 29 citations

Dynamic efficiency in the gifts economy

1993 • 27 citations

The Econometrics of Piecewise-Linear Budget Constraints

1987 • 25 citations

Permanent Income, Age and the Distribution of Wealth

1988 • 20 citations

The nature and magnitude of precautionary wealth

1992 • 15 citations

The rate of time preference and shocks to wealth: evidence from panel data

1993 • 9 citations

On the Proportionality and Homogeneity of Consumption and Income

1995 • 7 citations

Variable Earnings and Nonlinear Taxation

1987 • 6 citations