more light on the relationship between public and private savings by analyzing private pension scheme participation in the … pension scheme participation in the Netherlands. I find that participation in private pension schemes is higher for those who … an increase in, or crowding in of, private savings. -- Ageing ; savings behavior ; social security ; subjective …

propensities to save differ across income components. Our analysis reveals a large degree of heterogeneity in savings behavior … within the year. -- framing effects ; labeling effects ; employee savings ; nonparametric methods ; behavioral economics …

income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch … households. The survey contains rich information on house-hold wealth, pension rights and savings attitudes. A result of the …

-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …

Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile … money as a tool to promote agricultural investment. For this purpose, we designed and conducted a field experiment with a …

region. In terms of sheer magnitudes, China's national savings and current account surpluses dominate the region's saving-investment …. -- Growth contributions ; national savings and investment ; current account balance ; welfare consequences of growth … growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India …