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 …

little effect on savings rates. In many countries, however, retirement incentives in social security programs prevent … retirement ages from keeping pace with changes in life expectancy, leading to an increased need for life-cycle savings. Analyzing … a cross-country panel of macroeconomic data, we find that increased longevity raises aggregate savings rates in …

rates in developing Asia for the 2011-2030 period based on our estimation results and find that the domestic saving rate in …

by household optimization also arise in an economy with a rational planner who uses tools such as default savings and … highlight the distinction between planner optimization and household optimization. We show that planner optimization is a … substitute for household optimization and that this is true even when there are information asymmetries, so that households know …

We analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey …

China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations … include demographic, policy, and financial causes. Yet a lack of reliable microlevel data on household finances makes it … primary causes of high levels of savings among Chinese households …

critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents … aggregate fertility on household savings … household savings. Then, we construct an OLG model that parametrically matches the PE empirical evidence. Finally, we extend the …

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which an initial gender gap in … ideal fertility prevents effective communication between spouses about the costs of childbearing incurred by women. This … mechanism is likely to further widen the spousal disagreement over fertility in environments where maternal health risk is high …

agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …

the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to … greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast …, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These …