increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile. The … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical …

/informal sector choice and saving decisions under the rules of Chile's canonical privatized pension system. The parameters governing …. Our policy experiments show that Chile could achieve a reduction of 23% of minimum pension costs, while guaranteeing the …

a buffer-stock savings model and show that rising income uncertainty and pension reforms lead younger and older … household savings rate and the U-shaped age-profile of savings. -- China ; household savings ; income uncertainty ; pension … reforms ; buffer-stock savings …

This paper analyzes the causes of rising savings rates for the corporate, government, and household sectors, which have … jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the … Chinese economy are also explored. -- aggregate savings ; current account ; income distribution ; WTO accession ; trade …

study household savings and expenditure adjustment from an unexpected, large-scale and rapidly evolving political shock that … uncertainty resulted in significant temporary increases in savings among urban households in China. Households responded mainly by … empirical studies of precautionary savings such as self-selection and life-cycle effects. …