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YOLO: Mortality Beliefs and Household Finance Puzzles

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Finance, July 2019
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (87th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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170 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
YOLO: Mortality Beliefs and Household Finance Puzzles
Published in
Journal of Finance, July 2019
DOI 10.1111/jofi.12828
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 169 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 42 25%
Researcher 14 8%
Student > Master 12 7%
Lecturer 7 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 4%
Other 24 14%
Unknown 64 38%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 50 29%
Business, Management and Accounting 27 16%
Computer Science 4 2%
Psychology 4 2%
Social Sciences 4 2%
Other 11 6%
Unknown 70 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 May 2026.
All research outputs
#3,201,770
of 34,377,743 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Finance
#750
of 3,705 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#47,710
of 372,756 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Finance
#8
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,377,743 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,705 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 372,756 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 28 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its contemporaries.