Showing 1 - 10 of 887
boost private savings at the macro level by converting a government financial liability into private wealth. At the micro …-level, however, crowding-out effects on household savings could be offsetting some of this increase in private savings and may lead … social security reform with PRAs does indeed crowd out household savings and recommends strengthening voluntary savings for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215022
This paper examines the effects of non-contributory pension programs at the federal and state levels on Mexican households' saving patterns using micro data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure Survey. The federal program by itself appears to reduce the saving rate of households whose oldest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544981
This paper examines the effects of non-contributory pension programs at the federal and state levels on Mexican households' saving patterns using micro data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure Survey. The federal program by itself appears to reduce the saving rate of households whose oldest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958028
This paper investigates the effect of the introduction of tax free retirement accounts on the savings behavior of … effective policy tool to encourage household savings.The empirical strategy of the paper is a difference-in-difference approach … provide evidence of heterogeneous effects across demographic subgroups and across quantiles of the savings distribution that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128930
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257084
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257144
The benefits of implementing Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) are studied in the presence of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911462
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001173296
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010635
We study how 3,534 beneficiaries of PROSPERA, Mexico's cash transfer program, smooth food consumption around the transfer payday, an anticipated and transitory income shock. We find that food consumption and food security do not change around the transfer payday, including for recipients with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550048