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Housing and Tax-Deferred Retirement Accounts

Staff Working Paper 2016-24 Anson T. Y. Ho, Jie Zhou

Assets in tax-deferred retirement accounts (TDA) and housing are two major components of household portfolios. In this paper, we develop a life-cycle model to examine the interaction between households’ use of TDA and their housing decisions.

Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Economic models, Housing JEL Code(s): C, C6, C61, D, D1, D14, D9, D91, E, E2, E21, H, H2, H24, R, R2, R21

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“Tax-deferred Saving Accounts: Heterogeneity and Policy Reforms”
in European Economic Review, vol. 97, pages 26-41, August 2017.
“Prediction Market for Disease Surveillance: A Case Study of Influenza Activity”
(with Philip M. Polgreen and Tim Prendergast) in Journal of Prediction Markets, vol. 10(1), pages 68-82, October 2016.
“Flexible Estimation of Copulas: An Application to the U.S. Housing Crisis”
(with Kim P. Huynh and David T. Jacho-Chavez) in Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol. 31(3), pages 603-610, April 2016.
“crs: A Package for Nonparametric Splines Estimation in R”
(with Kim P. Huynh and David T. Jacho-Chavez) in Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol. 29(2), pages 348-352, March 2014.
“npRmpi: A Package for Parallel Distributed Kernel Estimation in R”
(with Kim P. Huynh and David T. Jacho-Chavez) in Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol. 26(2), pages 344-349, March 2011.

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“Analysing Labour Productivity in Ecuador”
(with German Cubas, Kim P. Huynh, and David T. Jacho-Chavez) in Productivity and Efficiency Analysis, Chapter 7, pages 109-117, 2016. Springer ISBN 978-3-319-23228-7.

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Ph.D. Economics, University of Iowa
B.Sc. Finance, Indiana University
B.A. Economics, Indiana University

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