Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 7 percentage points, to ¼ of disposable income. We use household-level data to explain the postponing of consumption despite rapid income growth. Tracing cohorts over time indicates virtually no consumption smoothing over the life cycle. Saving rates have increased across all demographic groups, although the age-profile of savings has an unusual U-shaped pattern, with saving rates being the highest among the youngest and oldest households in recent years. These patterns are best explained by the rising private burden o

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Chamon, Marcos
Other Persons:	Prasad, Eswar (contributor)
Publisher:	Washington : International Monetary Fund
Subject:	China \| Sparen \| Savings \| Privater Haushalt \| Household \| Stadtbevölkerung \| Urban population \| Einkommenshypothese \| Income hypothesis

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (51 p)
Series:	IMF Working Papers IMF working paper ; WP/08/145
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Contents; I. Introduction; II. Data; III. Stylized Facts; IV. Demographic Determinants of Household Saving Behavior; V. Potential Explanations; A. Habit Formation; B. Shifts in Social Expenditures; C. Durables Purchases and Savings; D. Housing Purchases and Savings; E. Effects of State Enterprise Restructuring on Saving Behavior; F. Target Savings; V. A Composite Sketch; VI. Discussion and Implications for Aggregate Saving Patterns; Appendix; Text Tables; 1. Summary Statistics; 2. Representativeness of 10 Provinces/Municipalities Sub-Sample; 3. Consumption Growth and Habit Formation 4. Ownership of Durable Goods per 100 Urban Households5. Home Purchase and Construction Expenditure Financed by Saving Withdrawals ..; 6. Type of Employer for Households With a Head in the Age Range 25-59; 7. Median Regressions for the Saving Rate; 8. Median Regressions for the Saving Rate Including Imputed Value of Owner Occupied Housing; Appendix Tables; A1. Saving Rates and Household Income in Household Surveys and National Accounts; A2. Breakdown of Consumption Expenditures Across Different Categories; Text Figures; 1. Contributions to Gross Domestic Savings as a Percentage of GDP 2. Saving Rate and Share of Total Savings by Income Quintile3. Average Disposable Income and Consumption by Age of Head of Household; 4. Income and Consumption for Different Cohorts Over Time; 5. Average Saving Rates by Age of Head of Household; 6. Age, Cohort, and Year Effects on Income, Consumption and Saving Rates; 7. Average and Standard Deviation of the Shares of Consumption Expenditure on Education and Health as a Function of Age of the Head of the Household; 8. Home Ownership by Age of the Head of Household; 9. Age Distribution of the Chinese Population: Estimates and Projections Appendix FiguresA1. Aggregate Saving Rate in an OLG Model with Credit Constraints as a Function of Geometric Growth Rate of Wages; A2. Aggregate Saving Rate in an OLG Model with Credit Constraints as a Function of Geometric Growth Rate of Wages and the Credit Constraint; References Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	978-1-4518-7003-9 ; 978-1-4519-1456-6 ; 978-1-4518-7003-9
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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