We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a … in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of marital dissolution. We analyze the saving behaviour over time of … propensity to save of married couples, consistent with a rise in precautionary savings interpretation. An increase in the risk of …

expenditure taxation, by exempting the "normal return" to saving and taxing only "excess returns" on the same tax schedule as …

average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the US experienced a substantial increase in … inequality and a continuous decrease in the aggregate saving rate. We propose an explanation based on interpersonal comparisons … consistent with these trends. When households care about their consumption relative to others, individual saving rates decrease …

supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households over the life cycle. These data are used to test the life cycle …, consumption and saving over their life cycle in the face of this capital market imperfection. This model explains the data much … significantly in their saving behaviour in a way that depends on secondary earner labour supply, with a strong positive association …

joint return migration and saving decisions that accounts for uncertainty in future employment and income and estimate this …

Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … results indicate that private pensions in the US crowd out less than $0.15 of household saving per dollar of pension wealth …

through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit rates. We find evidence for a positive …