supplementary receipt of the private device significantly increased the wife's savings in couples with a low level of spousal trust … more effective hiding of the wife's savings amounts, facilitated through the private saving device. From a policy …

determine retirement savings and tax payments. Flat income and tax-rate profiles facilitate the analysis of behavioral factors … like present-period tax avoidance, while optimal consumption and after-tax savings are identical for both treatments. Our … results show that observed savings are suboptimal in both treatments and are influenced by gender, patience, and risk aversion …

kin and neighbors. Whether income secrecy facilitates savings depends on the type of norm individuals uphold: stricter …

In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing … savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive effects on various outcomes such as … health, education, and agricultural investments. We causally identify a strong increase in savings to a soft commitment …

life-cycle consumption and savings. According to numerous studies on subjective survival beliefs, young people also …