This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … fertility and female labour market participation, negative until the mid-1970s, has turned positive where developed, but not …

across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …

cycle. Decreasing discounting helps a canonical life-cycle model to explain the household saving puzzles of undersaving when …

households, focusing on the dramatic change of the household savings rate since 1998, from high to low savings. The literature …This paper scrutinizes the role of prolonged, expansionary monetary policy on the savings behavior of Japanese … monetary policy had a significant impact on Japan’s household behavior via the interest rate channel and the redistribution …

the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …

China has set to increase the minimum retirement age, to ease the pressure from pension expenditure and the falling … China largely rely on retired grandparents for childcare. Using novel and high-quality survey data, we demonstrate that …

significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 … countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fertility in the labor market …

We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …