weaker and labor informality is prevalent. In such environments, household saving decisions are intertwined with firms …

This paper studies the effect that changing demographic patterns have had on the household saving rate in China. We …'s utility enter into parent's utility where parents choose the consumption level of the young until they leave the household … the household saving rate …

-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA) and Urban Household Surveys (UHS) supplemented by the findings from … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …

imply. Our results also suggest that a substantial part of the reduced form relationship between stock holding and household …

personal assets. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between financial literacy and household net worth, relying on … comprehensive measures of financial knowledge designed for a special module of the Dutch Central Bank Household Survey (DHS). Our … savings plan has been shown to boost wealth. Overall, financial literacy, both directly and indirectly, is found to have a …

changes in household debt and savings during the 2007 recession. We find that while different segments of the population were …Using administrative credit report records and data collected through several special household surveys we analyze … retirement and savings accounts. If anything, such contributions actually declined on average during that year. Instead, the …

decrease in electricity consumption and a 6-percent decrease in natural-gas consumption. The pattern of savings is consistent …

We present a model of household life-cycle saving decisions in order to quantify the impact of demographic changes on … aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … lower household saving rates in Japan and China …