timing. Using data on subjective survival expectations elicited in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe …

Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic … structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China. …

We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan's household saving rate and on its public pension system and the … impact of that system on Japan's household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan …'s population can explain the level of, and past and future trends in, its household saving rate; second, the rapid aging of Japan …

-cycle framework how individuals respond to recessions. Our focus is on the sharp increase in savings rates that have been observed in … times. We show that the rise in the aggregate savings ratio is driven by increases in uncertainty, rather than tighening of …

Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially …-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase savings among these at …-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …

Japan's household saving rate showed great volatility, was often low and even negative, and was high only during the 25-year … trends over time in, Japan's household saving rate via various socioeconomic and policy variables. This seems to suggest that …

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 …

analysis of household saving rates as well as a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of household saving rates using a … spatial Durbin model. To summarize our main findings, we find that, in China, the household saving rate shows significant …-cycle hypothesis, the youth dependency ratio and the old-age dependency ratio have a negative and significant impact on the household …