household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights … bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … this alternative motive for savings in dowry-paying societies. However, we find no impacts of dowry expectations on son …

Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … results indicate that private pensions in the US crowd out less than $0.15 of household saving per dollar of pension wealth …

Using household data from 1988 to 2018, we confirm that the increase in income inequality in China has come to a halt … analysed, and the savings rate links income and consumption, while capital accumulation is the central mechanism linking income …

propensity to save of married couples, consistent with a rise in precautionary savings interpretation. An increase in the risk of … savings. -- Divorce ; saving ; marriage ; divorce law …

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 …

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 floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …

We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a … the elderly aged 65 and above residing in Scotland. Our semiparametric estimation technique allows the policy effects to … be flexibly estimated across age groups. We find that the Scottish policy reduced the average household saving by about …

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. …

Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic … 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 …