inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional … foods of their origin states. First, I focus on the preferences themselves and document that migrants bring their origin …

offered financial education. Both programs included a voluntary after-school savings club that provided students with a locked … money box. After nine months, both programs had significant impacts on savings behavior relative to the control group …, mostly because children moved savings from home to school. We observed few other impacts. We do find that financial education …

expenditure. We find support for these predictions in three field experiments that randomly assign reminders to new savings …

between factor- and personal-income distribution are studied in the light of existing analytic results from the precautionary-savings … literature, and by numerical solution experiments. Aggregate savings are an increasing function of non-accumulated income …

savings, investment, and labour supply in neoclassical models, and to the rate of unemployment in job search models. These …

This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to … differences between temporary and permanent migrants. Utilizing household level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP …), our findings reveal significant differences in the savings rates between foreign-born and German-born individuals. These …

to exist. It also predicts where formal insurance is likely to flourish: insurance groups that hold savings become more … Ethiopian funeral insurance groups and their members to motivate and test our model. Those which hold savings and collect …

relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents perceive children as an important … source of old-age support and that in partial equilibrium, increased fertility lowers household savings. Then, we construct … equilibrium effects can substantially overstate the effect of a change in aggregate fertility on households savings. …