, savings, length of stay in the U.S., and citizenship status affect the probability of homeownership before the recession and …

Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially …-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase savings among these at …-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …

have larger incentives to save for old age than their husbands. This paper analyses the household members’ attitudes … towards saving for old age, and the relation with the household saving and portfolio choice behaviour. Based on a panel of two …-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …

increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical … tool to encourage savings. …

situation can be closely monitored, but that it might be a very important complement when savings inhibit observing financial …

the savings rate is not homogeneous. On average, the effect attributed to real estate dominates the other components of … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …, an indirect effect arises through the accumulation of wealth. The savings rate does not decrease with age in a monotonic …

. Moreover, while the effect of the household size on migrants' transfers abroad turns out to be significantly negative … is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …

This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about … savings. Using the German Socio-economic Panel data it is shown that, although immigrants have lower levels of savings and are … less likely to have regular savings than natives, the gap is significantly narrowed once we take loan repayments and …