Prodigality and myopia: two rationales for social security

Pestieau, Pierre;Possen, Uri
(2006)

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  • Pestieau, PierreUCLouvain
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Among the rationales for social security, there is the fact that some people have to be forced to save. To explain undersaving, rational prodigality and hyperbolic preferences are often cited but treated separably. In this paper we study those two particular behaviors that lead to forced saving within an optimal income tax second-best setting.
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Pestieau, P., & Possen, U. (2006). Prodigality and myopia: two rationales for social security (CORE Discussion Papers 2006/73). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/72259