Expected Horizon and Household Finance.

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Publication date
2013
Publication type
Journal Article
Summary Using data from a U.S. household survey, we examine the empirical relation between subjective life horizon (i.e., the self-reported expectation of remaining life span) and portfolio choice. We find that equity portfolio shares are higher for investors with longer horizons, controlling for gender-specific age effects, socio-economic characteristics, health, and optimism. Our result is robust to accounting for the endogeneity of equity market participation or instrumenting subjective life horizon with parental survival. Finally, we show that the effect of a shortening horizon on portfolio allocation is stronger for households without bequest motives.
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Elsevier BV
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