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This paper argues against the policy position that begins with a doomsday scenario of publicly provided health insurance and pension systems threatened with collapse under the stresses imposed by population ageing, and instead contends that the threat of crisis in these systems is policy driven....
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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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crisis. The paper recommends obligatory private savings at a variable rate where the time path of the savings rate is chosen …
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A number of developing countries have run large and persistent current account deficits in both the late-1970s/early-1980s and in the early-1990s, raising the issue of whether these persistent imbalances are sustainable. This paper puts forward a notion of current account sustainability and...
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel data on households in five countries: Spain and Italy (the South), and Germany, Britain, and the US (the North). Our empirical results indicate that an increase in the duration...
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women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to an individually-held commitment savings …
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-migrant. Although migrants lose their original social networks whilst overseas, savings and human capital accumulation acquired abroad …
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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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