stylized facts on saving behavior by age, education, income and place of residence. Counterfactual saving rates are computed by … imposing the saving behavior, the population distribution or the income distribution of two benchmark economies (the United … States and Korea). The results suggest that the difference in national saving rates between LAC and the benchmark economies …

This paper compares the saving behavior of formal and informal workers and additionally provides a socioeconomic and … workers, but may also have positive consequences on the aggregate saving rate. In addition, for Chile, it is evident that …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

We analyse the marriage decisions of men and women in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation … within the marital living arrangement. We demonstrate that the Government’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) changed marriage … market outcomes for both men and women. To decompose the overall policy impact on the marriage market equilibrium, we develop …

economic environment can shape inequality in consumption and leisure between spouses. In this survey we describe these channels …

To analyze the impact of changes in the value of marriage on household decisions, we present a limited commitment … changes in the value of marriage due to a housing price shock have an asymmetric impact on individual welfare both across …

information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk … do not impose any model structure on the consumption process. This suggests that Italian households do not have access to …