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-1980s. This paper has three main findings. First, the decline in saving started in 1983, a couple of years earlier than … increased their consumption. Finally, the rapid increase in housing prices in 1985-86 may have been an important determinant of … older and retired households' saving through reversed mortgages, but cannot on its own explain the decline in savings that …
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trustworthiness by means of a binary trust game to assess heterogeneity in saving behavior among lowincome slum dwellers in urban … India. 360 married couples were randomly assigned to either a control group, receiving a shared saving device (a lockbox …), or a treatment group, receiving a private saving device (a zip-purse) in addition to the lockbox. We find that the …
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that simple information on the economic value of saving energy was the most important element guiding more cost …
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This study measured the discount rates of a sample of 262 farm households in the Ethiopian highlands, using a time preference experiment with real payoffs. In general, the median discount rate was very high—more than double the interest rate on the outstanding debt—and varied systematically...
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This paper presents evidence on household savings in urban regions of the Chinese provinces Sichuan and Liaoning based on data from the State Statistical Bureau's Urban Household Survey for the late 1980s. In this period the Chinese economy was subject to extensive reforms that resulted in rapid...
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Structural models of lifetime labour supply and consumption require functional specifications of preferences as well as … extent predicted distributions of lifetime consumption are robust with respect to the specification of preferences. The … simulation results show that simulated distributions of lifetime consumption strongly depend on the estimate of the intertemporal …
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Using Norwegian administrative data, we study how sizable lottery prizes affect household expenditure and savings. Expenditure responses (MPCs) spike in the year of winning, with a mean estimate of 0.35, and thereafter fall markedly. Controlling for all items on the household balance sheet and...
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A major difficulty faced by researchers who want to study the consumption and savings behavior of households is the … consumption expenditure, we combine several data sources from Norway over the period 1994-2014. This allows us to link tax records … consumption expenditure to the assumptions made and the data used. We then compare our measures of household expenditure to those …
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Several previous studies have argued that marriage leads to a decline in criminal propensity. Most of these studies … marriage are anticipatory and strongest for men. The changes in offending vary substantially by partner's criminal history. …
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In the current paper, we investigate within-couple inequality in earnings using Norwegian register data on married and cohabiting couples. We are particularly interested in assessing whether the negative relation between children and women’s relative earnings changed during the study period...
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