/informal sector choice and saving decisions under the rules of Chile's canonical privatized pension system. The parameters governing …. Our policy experiments show that Chile could achieve a reduction of 23% of minimum pension costs, while guaranteeing the …

increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile. The … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical …

a buffer-stock savings model and show that rising income uncertainty and pension reforms lead younger and older … household savings rate and the U-shaped age-profile of savings …

. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded … distortions. I document major trends in aggregate savings, investment, trade, and net foreign asset positions in China, and …

Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially …-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase savings among these at …-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …

This paper analyzes the causes of rising savings rates for the corporate, government, and household sectors, which have … jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the …