What Determines Savings?

Part 1A Saving motives - life cycle savings versus saving for intergenerational transfers: the role of intergenerational transfers in aggregate capital accumulation (1981), with Lawrence H. Summers intergenerational transfers and savings (1988) altruistic linkages with the extended family (1983) the family as an incomplete annuities market (1981), with Avia Spivak. Part 1B Saving motives - precautionary savings: annuity insurance, savings and inequality (1986-1987), with John Shoven and Avia Spivak. Part 2 Fiscal policy and savings: taxation and savings - a neoclassical perspective (1984) economic impact of deficit financing (1984) investment versus savings incentives - the size of the bang for the buck and the potential for self-financing business tax cuts (1983), with Alan J. Auerbach deficit delusion (1986) is debt neutral in the life cycle model? (1986). Part 3 Social security, demographics and savings: social security and equilibrium capital intensity (1979) simulating alternative social security responses to the demographic transition (1985), with Alan J. Auerbach some economic implications of life-span extensions (1981). Part 4 Empirical studies of savings: testing the theory of social security and life cycle accumulation (1979) estimating the wealth elasticity of bequests from a sample of potential decedents (1977) the adequacy of savings (1982), with Avia Spivak and Lawrence H. Summers public debt and United States savings - a new test of the neutrality hypothesis (1985), with Michael J. Boskin an examination of empirical tests of social security and savings (1983), with Alan Auerbach.