bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … 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 …

specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health …

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 …

characteristic are correlated with more job opportunities. Policy simulations ten suggest that the risk pooling and savings component …

of Becker's theory to model preferences over continuous time blocks. To examine whether the predictions of the model are …