Public Pension and Household Saving: Evidence from urban China
We relate household saving to pension reform, to explain the high household saving rates in urban China from a new perspective. We use the exogenous-policy induced-variation in pension wealth to explicitly estimate the impact of pension wealth on household saving, and obtain a significant offset effect of pension wealth on household saving. Our estimations show that pension reform boosted the household saving rate in 1999 by about 6 percentage points for cohort aged 25-29 and by about 3 percentage points for cohort aged 50-59. Our results also indicate that declining pension wealth reduces expenditure on education and health more than on other consumption items.
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2009-02
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Authors: | Feng, Jin ; He, Lixin ; Sato, Hiroshi |
Institutions: | Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University |
Subject: | pension reform | pension wealth | household saving rate | urban China |
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