Health Risk and Portfolio Choice
- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
- Vol. 26 (4) , 472-485
- https://doi.org/10.1198/073500107000000287
Abstract
This article investigates the role of self-perceived risky health in explaining continued reductions in financial risk taking after retirement. If future adverse health shocks threaten to increase ...Keywords
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