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We adopt the collective approach to consumer behavior with egoistic agents, and assume that the household consumption is either private or public. We then show that (i) household demands have to satisfy testable constraints and (ii) some elements of the decision process can be retrieved from...
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This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings … and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the … home- and host country may also be related to future return plans. Thus, comparing savings and assets between immigrants …
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characteristic are correlated with more job opportunities. Policy simulations ten suggest that the risk pooling and savings component …
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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...
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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 the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...
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The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...
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of Becker's theory to model preferences over continuous time blocks. To examine whether the predictions of the model are …
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We consider an economy where individuals privately choose effort and trade competitively priced securities that pay off with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then standard functional form restrictions ensure that...
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-migrant. Although migrants lose their original social networks whilst overseas, savings and human capital accumulation acquired abroad …
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model which features compulsory savings accounts and transparent pricing of health services. It has achieved some of the … how tax cuts can be designed to help establish compulsory savings accounts so that a publicly funded welfare system can be … like unemployment) through the establishment of a set of compulsory savings accounts. A case study of New Zealand is used …
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