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Temporal Instability of Risk Preference among the Poor: Evidence from Payday Cycles / Mika Akesaka, Peter Eibich, Chie Hanaoka, Hitoshi Shigeoka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Akesaka, Mika.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28784.
- NBER working paper series no. w28784
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- The poor live paycheck to paycheck and are repeatedly exposed to strong cyclical income fluctuations. We investigate whether such income fluctuations affect risk preference among the poor. If risk preference temporarily changes around payday, optimal decisions made before payday may no longer be optimal afterward, which could reinforce poverty. By exploiting Social Security payday cycles in the US, we find that risk preference among the poor relying heavily on Social Security changes around payday. Rather than cognitive decline before payday, the deterioration of mental health and relative deprivation may play a role. We find similar evidence among the Japanese elderly.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2021.
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