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The Determinants of Household Saving in China : A Dynamic Panel Analysis of Provincial Data

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2006

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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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...

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Stock Market Expectations of Dutch Households

Hurd, Michael D. - 2010

Despite its importance for the analysis of life-cycle behavior, stock ownership by households is poorly understood. Among other approaches to the investigation of this puzzle, recent research has elicited the expectations of stock market returns by individuals. This paper reports findings from a...

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Effects of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession on American Households

Hurd, Michael D. - 2010

In this paper we present evidence from high-frequency data collections dedicated to tracking the effects of the financial crisis and great recession on American households. These data come from surveys that we conducted in the American Life Panel - an Internet survey run by RAND Labor and...

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The Degree of Judicial Enforcement and Credit Markets : Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2010

being credit rationed, loan size, and the probability of bankruptcy using household-level data from the Japanese Panel … Survey of Consumers, conducted by the Institute for Research on Household Economics, in conjunction with judicial data by …

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Do Borrowing Constraints Matter? An Analysis of Why the Permanent Income Hypothesis Does Not Apply in Japan

Kohara, Miki - 2006

-constrained, (2) that household assets and the husband's educational attainment are the most important determinants of whether or not … a household is borrowing-constrained, and (3) that the Euler equation implication is rejected for both the full sample …

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The Impact of Pre-marital Sex Ratios on Household Saving in Two Asian Countries : The Competitive Saving Motive Revisited

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 …-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged …

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Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey : Evidence from the American Life Panel

Hurd, Michael D. - 2012

Beginning in May 2009 we fielded a monthly Internet survey designed to measure total household spending as the …

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Explanations for the Decline in Spending at Older Ages

Rohwedder, Susann; Hurd, Michael D.; Hudomiet, Péter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use new data from the 2019 wave of the Consumption and Activities Mail Survey to help interpret the observed decline in spending as individuals age. At one extreme, forward-looking individuals optimally chose the decline; at the other, myopic individuals overspent and were forced to reduce...

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