Retirement, pensions, and ageing

Uncertain Lifetime, Life Insurance, and the Theory of the Consumer

Menahem E. Yaari · The Review of Economic Studies · 1965 · 3.2K citations

Consumer Economics, Consumer Uncertainty, April 1965 +23

The Production of Human Capital and the Life Cycle of Earnings

Yoram Ben-Porath · Journal of Political Economy · 1967 · 2.6K citations

Productivity, Economics, Human Capital Development +8

Substitution, Risk Aversion, and the Temporal Behavior of Consumption and Asset Returns: An Empirical Analysis

Larry G. Epstein, Stanley E. Zin · Journal of Political Economy · 1991 · 1.8K citations

Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents

James J. Heckman, Lance Lochner, Christopher Taber · Review of Economic Dynamics · 1998 · 840 citations

Social Inequality, Economics, Heterogeneous Agents +10

A Life-Cycle Model of Earnings, Learning, and Consumption

James J. Heckman · Journal of Political Economy · 1976 · 786 citations

Economics, Macroeconomics, Life-cycle Model +3