A large fraction of households have very little savings buffer and are therefore vulnerable to financial shocks. This … link to a personal web page where they can start or adjust an automatic savings plan. However, analyzing detailed bank data …, we find no treatment effect on actual savings, neither in the short run nor in the long run. Our null findings are quite …

portfolios, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the … heterogeneity in household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices …

savings and insurance, may vary significantly by whether one receives care at home or in a nursing home. In this paper, we … savings and insurance valuation. The estimated marginal utility differences imply a significant increase in the incentives to …

wealth is difficult to establish due to many potential sources of endogeneity. Utilizing the Household Finance and … Consumption Survey for the Euro area, we correct for endogeneity by using inheriting the household's main residence as an … wealth position of the household only through homeownership. For the sample of inheritors we find that the local average …

This paper studies the secular increase in U.S. household debt and its relation to growing income inequality and … financial fragility. We exploit a new household-level dataset that covers the joint distributions of debt, income, and wealth in … increase in U.S. household debt between the 1970s and 2007. The resulting debt increase made balance sheets more sensitive to …

to consume (MPCs). Our main contribution is to document how MPCs vary with household characteristics and prize size, and …

, and motives through a FinTech application. Users increase their spending permanently, lower their savings rate, and … precautionary savings motives: Liquid users behave as if they faced strong precautionary savings motives even though no observables …

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 …