养老计划倾向与商业养老保险需求——基于CFPS数据的实证研究

The Relationship Between Retirement Planning Propensity and Commercial Annuity Demand:Empirical Evidence from CFPS

养老计划倾向作为一种行为因素,可以通过提高风险认知与管理意图,增加家庭对商业养老保险的需求。利用中国家庭追踪调查数据实证分析养老计划倾向与商业养老保险参保之间的关系,结果显示:(1)计算过养老费用的家庭会系统性地提高参保概率,计算过养老费用与否引致的参保概率差异占样本平均参保水平的40%以上;(2)养老费用计算结果也体现出逆向选择性,预计养老费用越高的家庭越倾向于参与商业养老保险;(3)养老计划倾向还会提高家庭对除商业养老保险外其他类型商业保险的需求,从而提高家庭整体商业保险参与水平。因此,提高家庭的养老计划倾向能有效促进商业养老保险市场,甚至整个商业保险市场的发展。

According to the classical theories of commercial annuity demand,households should more or less annualize their wealth to cope with individual longevity risk.However,in reality,household participation in commercial annuity market is limited which gives rise to annuity puzzles.Classical theories generally adopt the life cycle model as the research paradigm,which assumes that households will calculate the optimal path of future consumption and savings with the goal of maximizing lifetime utility.The ensuing question is whether households have set about calculating their needs to prepare for the future,as assumed in theory.In short,have households tried to calculate retirement needs?The answer to this question is seen as an indicator of whether households have retirement planning propensity.The heterogeneity of rational and farsighted optimization will result in the differences of household economic decision-making.Households with retirement planning propensity are more in line with the assumption of life cycle model,that is,they follow intertemporal optimization of economic decisionmaking.As a result,these households are more likely to obey the classical life cycle model to make relatively rational economic decisions.Existing literature has proved that retirement planning propensity can explain household heterogeneity in savings level,risk asset allocation,wealth accumulation and other aspects,but doesn’t involve in commercial annuity demand.Based on this,this paper empirically studies whether retirement planning propensity will boost household commercial annuity demand.The central contribution of this paper lies in that it studies for the first time the relationship between retirement planning propensity and household commercial(annuity)insurance demand,suggesting that retirement planning propensity may be a behavioral factor to help explain limited participation in the commercial annuity market.Specifically,this study utilizes the data of 2014 China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)to conduct an empirical analysis.It uses the question which ask whether households have calculated retirement needs to proxy for retirement planning propensity.The results of multivariate Probit model show that:(1)Households who have calculated retirement needs will systematically increase the probability of holding commercial annuity,and the effect of retirement planning propensity accounts for more than 40% of the average participation level of the sample.(2)The calculation results of retirement needs show adverse selection.Expected retirement needs may contain information about subjective life expectancy,so the higher the expected retirement needs are,the more likely the households are to hold commercial annuity because of more expected benefits.(3)Retirement planning propensity will also increase household demand for other types of commercial insurance besides commercial annuity,thus improving the participation level of household commercial insurance as a whole.The above results are robust after considering endogeneity problems such as reverse causality.The policy implications of this paper are as follows:The government should encourage households to use different ways to calculate retirement needs and provide the services needed to calculate retirement needs.This attempt will help promote the development of the commercial annuity market and even the whole commercial insurance market.