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Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare : A Dynamic Analysis
Blau, David M. - 2011
Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ages, no borrowing constraint, little or no uncertainty, and no institutional restrictions on...
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The heterogeneous effects of social assistence and unemployment insurance : evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2023
We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household...
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The Feldstein-Horioka puzzle and capital mobility : a review
Coakley, Jerry - In: International journal of finance & economics : IJFE 3 (1998) 2, pp. 169-188
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Does Daughter Deficit Promote Parental Substance Use? Longitudinal Evidence on Smoking from Rural China
Chen, Xi - 2017
China and some other Asian countries have experienced skewed sex ratios, triggering intense competition and pressure in … the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, with half of men smoke while few women … market in China – affects their fathers' smoking behavior. We utilize two household longitudinal surveys as well as a random …
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Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Glewwe, Paul - 2017
children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …
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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Characteristics in Rural China
Leight, Jessica - 2018
-cognitive characteristics. This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China …
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Rural credit and agricultural production : empirical evidence from Brazil
Nascimento, Daniel Henrique; Gutiérrez, Carlos Enrique … - In: International journal of finance & economics : IJFE 28 (2023) 4, pp. 4236-4245
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A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2014
This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...
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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Costantini, Mauro; Paradiso, … - 2012
In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. We estimate a Vector Error...
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Household savings decision and income uncertainty
Beznoska, Martin; Ochmann, Richard - 2010
This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in...
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