robust link between financial confidence and savings behavior. In particular, the savings of underconfident individuals are …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 …

Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax …. -- Household saving ; Saving incentives ; Retirement ; Riester scheme ; Coarsened exact matching …

social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income oor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …

We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …

pensionreforms led to an increase in the household savings rate in Germany until about2010. As domestic investment opportunities … could not absorb these additional sav-ings, they were partly invested abroad. The German current account-to-GDP ratiorose …. After 2010, private savings remained rather stable, but opportunities to investin Germany declined further. Our simulations …

Research has consistently shown that women's involvement in household decision making positively affects household … outcomes such as nutrition and education of children. Is financial literacy a determinant for women to participate in intra-household … decision making? Using data on savings groups in Rwanda, we examine this relationship and show that women with higher financial …