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 …

A substantial literature exists on the impact of pension schemes, both public and private, on the level of household … private savings and about the magnitude of the displacement effect. Using data for 8,279 Canadian households, and estimates of … pension wealth (both private and social security) which we construct for each household in the sample, the estimated …

in housing, and declining flows of household savings into deposit institutions. These data underscore the unintended … reallocate their "transactable savings." Cross-section data from the 1962 and 1970 Surveys of Consumer Finances are used to … that accelerating inflation has, in thee presence of comprehensive ceilings on deposit interest rates, altered the savings …

across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …

-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA) and Urban Household Surveys (UHS) supplemented by the findings from … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …

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 …

decrease in electricity consumption and a 6-percent decrease in natural-gas consumption. The pattern of savings is consistent …

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 …