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The impact of sex ratios before marriage on household saving in two Asian countries : the competitive saving motive revisited

Horioka, Charles; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2016

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds...

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Managing risk with insurance and savings : experimental evidence for male and female farm managers in West Africa

Delavallade, Clara; Dizon, Felipe; Hill, Ruth Vargas; … - 2015

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The competitive saving motive : concept, evidence, and implications

Wei, Shang-jin; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2015

imbalances tend to correspond with higher savings rates; (ii) household-level evidence suggest that: (a) families with unmarried … sons in rural regions with more skewed sex ratios tend to have higher savings rates, while savings rates of families with … unmarried daughters appear uncorrelated with gender imbalances; and (b) savings rates of families in cities tend to rise with …

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Do women receive worse financial advice? : an audit study in Hong Kong, China

Bhattacharya, Utpal; Kumar, Amit; Visaria, Sujata; … - 2023

We arranged for trained undercover men and women to pose as potential clients and visit all 65 local financial advisory firms in Hong Kong, China. At financial planning firms, but not at securities firms, women were more likely than men to receive advice to buy only individual or only local...

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