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Fertility and Savings : The Effect of China's Two-Child Policy on Household Savings
Baker, Scott; Benmelech, Efraim; Zhishu Yang; Zhang, Qi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations … primary causes of high levels of savings among Chinese households …
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Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China
Chamon, Marcos - 2010
China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U … stable while it is the transitory variance that rises sharply. A calibration of a buffer-stock savings model indicates that … rising savings rates among younger households are consistent with rising income uncertainty and higher saving rates among …
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Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck : Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered?
Sahm, Claudia R. - 2010
Recent fiscal policies, including the 2008 stimulus payments and the 2009 Making Work Pay tax credit, aimed to increase household spending. This paper quantifies the spending response to these policies and examines differences in spending by whether the stimulus was delivered as a one-time...
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Subjective Income Expectations and Household Debt Cycles
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yin, Xiao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Matched transaction-level, credit-registry, and survey-based data reveal that consumers on average form excessively high (low) income expectations relative to ex-post realizations after unexpected positive (negative) income shocks. These extrapolative income expectations lead consumers to...
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The Effects of Schooling on Costless Health Maintenance : Overweight Adolescents and Children in Rural China
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2019
Obesity is an important global health problem. Although obesity is not directly related to access to health care or constrained by resource deprivation, overweight status is predominantly found in poor, less-educated populations. This paper seeks to identify the causal role of schooling in...
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Leaving Money on the Table? Suboptimal Enrollment in the New Social Pension Program in China
Chen, Xi - 2017
China's recently implemented New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest social pension program in the world, was designed to provide financial protection for its rural population and reduce economic inequities. Yet the impact of this program is mitigated if those eligible fail to enroll. This...
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Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2013
This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the...
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Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor : Evidence from Kenya's Western Province
Dupas, Pascaline - 2012
had two parts. In the first part, we waived the fixed cost of opening a basic savings account at a local bank for a random … side, however. More work needs to be done to understand what savings and credit products are best suited for the majority …
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Growing Apart : Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late 2000s. We document an erosion of consumption insurance against both household-level idiosyncratic and village-level aggregate income shocks, and show that this decline is related...
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Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition based Evidence from an Indian state
Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better targeted and less prone to clientelistic control by state and local governments. Arguably this has helped to increase the vote share of the BJP vis-a-vis regional parties. We...
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