household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights … this alternative motive for savings in dowry-paying societies. However, we find no impacts of dowry expectations on son …-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls. …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

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 … occurred largely in May 1989 in Beijing, China. Using monthly micro panel data, we present evidence that a surge in political …

household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA) and Urban Household Surveys (UHS) supplemented by the findings from … existing studies, we analyze the sources and causes of China's high and rising saving rates in the government, corporate, and …

structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China. -- household saving ; one-child policy ; demographic structure …Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic …

household savings rate and the U-shaped age-profile of savings. -- China ; household savings ; income uncertainty ; pension …China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the agesaving profile has become U … permanent variance of household income was stable, the transitory variance rose sharply. Based on these estimates, we calibrate …

From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 8 percentage points, to about one quarter … of disposable income. We use household-level data to explain why households are postponing consumption despite rapid … profile of savings has an unusual U-shaped pattern, with saving rates being the highest among the youngest and oldest …

work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility … indicate that uncertainty about a partner's abusive type creates incentives for women to delay fertility, reduce fertility … abuse, both income support and subsidized childcare fail to do so because they encourage early fertility. Income support …