Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax … exemptions - the so-called Riester scheme. We apply matching and panel regression techniques to assess the impact of the Riester …. -- Household saving ; Saving incentives ; Retirement ; Riester scheme ; Coarsened exact matching …

savings behavior. To this end, we analyze hand-collected historical data on livestock availability during World War II at the … provincial level, alongside detailed survey data on elicited time preferences and household savings. By leveraging differences … scarcity during early childhood develop higher levels of patience later in life and tend to hold more (precautionary) savings …

In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing … savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive effects on various outcomes such as … health, education, and agricultural investments. We causally identify a strong increase in savings to a soft commitment …

and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on …

-household decision making? Using data on savings groups in Rwanda, we examine this relationship and show that women with higher financial …

. To do so, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply, savings, and social assistance claiming decisions …, savings, and the labor supplies of all adult household members. We show that the optimal policy mix is dominated by moderately …

structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity …

Is there a way of matching donations that avoids crowding out? And, more generally, what is the best way to utilize a … matching method, some simple theoretical considerations, and evidence from a large-scale natural field experiment on charitable … giving. We compare a standard linear matching scheme with a novel matching scheme in which the matched amount is allocated …