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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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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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Intrahousehold responses to imbalanced human capital subsidies : evidence from the Philippine conditional cash transfer program

Raitzer, David A.; Batmunkh, Odbayar; Yarcia, Damaris - 2021

Extensive global evidence suggests that conditional cash transfers (CCTs) encourage long-term investment in human capital by poor households. However, CCTs also have the potential to distort incentives for investment among children. If only some children in the household are monitored/subsidized...

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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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Do natural disasters change savings and employment choices? : evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Eskander, Shaikh M. S. U.; Fankhauser, Samuel; Jha, Shikha - 2016

explore to what extent households adjust their income and employment strategies and savings in response to exposure to floods … Pakistan exhibit at least no decrease in their savings behavior. We discuss policy implications in terms of developing nonfarm …

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Saving, investment, and current account surplus in developing Asia

Park, Donghyun; Shin, Kwanho - 2009

An integral part of global current account imbalances is the large and persistent current account surplus developing Asia has run since the 1997-1998 Asian crisis. A country's current account surplus is, by definition, equal to its net saving. The central objective of this paper is to...

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Explaining Filipino households' declining saving rate

Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2009

From 1994 to 2006, the average household saving rate in the Philippines declined by 5.2 percentage points to about a mere 5% of disposable income. Using data from income and expenditure survey at the household level, this paper explains why households' consumption growth had been higher than...

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Impact of population aging on Asia's future growth

Park, Donghyun; Shin, Kwanho - 2011

dissipating. Population aging affects growth through savings, capital accumulation, labor force participation, and total factor …

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Developing Myanmar's finance sector to support rapid, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth

Nehru, Vikram - 2015

prudently; provide a wide variety of financial services to firms, farms, and households; mobilize savings effectively; identify …

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Corporate cash holding in Asia

Horioka, Charles; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2013

In this paper, we analyze the determinants of corporate saving in the form of changes in the stock of cash for 11 Asian economies using firm-level data from the Oriana Database for the 2002–2011 period. We find some evidence that cash flow has a positive impact on the change in the stock of...

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