impatience are found to be significant predictors of health related field behavior and saving decisions. In particular, more …

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 …

structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … because of old-age security concerns, middle-aged households experience an increase in saving due to the lighter burden of … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China …

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 the two-earner household's saving decision is formulated more generally …

of Becker's theory to model preferences over continuous time blocks. To examine whether the predictions of the model are … supported by data, we exploit the extension of the 2007 U.S. Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation which lengthens evening …

-migrant. Although migrants lose their original social networks whilst overseas, savings and human capital accumulation acquired abroad …

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 …

The lifecycle approach is the workhorse to model saving decisions of individuals. It conjectures individuals preferring … a constant consumption stream across their lifecycle saving till retirement and dis-saving thereafter. The reality is …-income tier does little saving and in consequence little dissaving; the high-income tier does save during active life and profits …