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The Determinants of Household Saving in China : A Dynamic Panel Analysis of Provincial Data
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778166
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The Determinants and Long-Term Projections of Saving Rates in Developing Asia
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2011
In this paper, we present data on trends over time in domestic saving rates in twelve economies in developing Asia during the 1966-2007 period and analyze the determinants of these trends. We find that domestic saving rates in developing Asia have, in general, been high and rising but that there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118468
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Co-Residence, Life-Cycle Savings and Inter-Generational Support in Urban China
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2014
We use unique data characterizing individual savings for twins and non-twins in urban China to examine why the savings … necessary to take into account inter-generational co-residence, an important phenomenon in China and in many developing … China, but also indicate that in urban China neither old-age support by the young nor the one-child policy are major factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055192
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To Stay or to Migrate? When Becker Meets Harris-Todaro
Liao, Pei-Ju; Wang, Ping; Wang, Yin-Chi; Yip, Chong - 2022
China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242309
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Demographics and Aggregate Household Saving in Japan, China, and India
Curtis, Chadwick - 2015
aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … saving rates, while decreasing family size increases saving for both China and India. Projecting forward, the model predicts … lower household saving rates in Japan and China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015546
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The Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from 17 Million Users Across 49 Years on Taobao
Wang, Youwei - 2018
We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907125
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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys : Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior
Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, ofer - 2023
The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender differences in the associations between child behavioral problems and early adult earnings. They find large and significant earnings penalties for women who exhibited more headstrong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356772
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Wage Risk and Employment Risk Over the Life Cycle
Low, Hamish - 2010
We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are shocks to productivity, job destruction, the process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757525
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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall
Maccini, Sharon - 2010
How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759306
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Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice : Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest
Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2010
This paper documents the presence of non-economic career motivations in the U.S. labor market, explores reasons why such motivations could arise, and provides an explanation for why they might have persisted across many generations. The analysis links ethnic (migrant) labor market networks in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759641