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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 …
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critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents … household savings. Then, we construct an OLG model that parametrically matches the PE empirical evidence. Finally, we extend the … aggregate fertility on household savings …
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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 …We present a model of household life-cycle saving decisions in order to quantify the impact of demographic changes on …
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National saving rates differ enormously across developed countries. But these differences obscure a common trend, namely a dramatic decline over time. France and Italy, for example, saved over 17 percent of national income in 1970, but less than 7 percent in 2006. Japan saved 30 percent in 1970,...
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This paper studies the economic benefits of home ownership. Exploiting a quasi-experiment surrounding privatization decisions of municipally-owned apartment buildings, we obtain random variation in home ownership for otherwise similar buildings with similar tenants. We link the tenants to their...
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This paper uses a lifecycle model to study household finance in China, focusing on the high savings rate, the low stock … savings rate in China is driven mainly by high labor market risks and the patience of households. Given the estimated … market participation rate and the low share of stocks in wealth. We control for important regime changes in China in the …
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From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 7 percentage points, to about one quarter … of disposable income. We use household-level data to explain why households are postponing consumption despite rapid … rates have increased across all demographic groups although the age profile of savings has an unusual pattern in recent …
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China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U … that rising income uncertainty and pension reforms can account for over half of the increase in the urban household savings … accompanied by a substantial increase in income uncertainty. Interestingly, the permanent variance of household income remains …
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We employ a model of precautionary saving to study why household saving rates are so high in China and so low in the US … components. This decomposition indicates that over 80 percent of China's saving rate and nearly all of the US saving arises from … the precautionary motive. The difference in the income growth rate between China and the US is vastly more important for …
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In this paper, we conduct a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of the household saving rate in China using a … life cycle model and panel data on Chinese provinces for the 1995-2004 period from China?s household survey. We find that … China?s household saving rate has been high and rising and that the main determinants of variations over time and over space …
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