In this paper, I examine a model of precautionary saving and I show that the fact that people may insure against income risk makes it difficult to evaluate the extent of precautionary accumulation by simply looking at the relationship between wealth and earnings variance. I also argue that occupations may represent a bad proxy for income risk.
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Annamaria Lusardi (1997) studied this question.
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