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savings, investment, and labour supply in neoclassical models, and to the rate of unemployment in job search models. These …
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We examine the returns from owning cows and buffaloes in rural India. We estimate that when valuing labor at market wages, households earn large, negative average returns from holding cows and buffaloes, at negative 64% and negative 39% respectively. This puzzle is mostly explained if we value...
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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 …
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expenditure. We find support for these predictions in three field experiments that randomly assign reminders to new savings …
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There is some concern that immigration contributes to a larger current account deficit in a net borrowing country like Australia. The reason is believed to be that the immigrants on balance have a lower net saving than those born in the country.
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This paper extends the standard model of the life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of direction.
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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 …
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This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to …), our findings reveal significant differences in the savings rates between foreign-born and German-born individuals. These … the determinants of immigrants’ savings rates reveal that intended return migration does not only affect remittances, but …
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