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In this study we use data from rural India to examine the impact of the birth of a boy relative to the birth of a girl (i.e., the "gender shock") on the savings, consumption and income of rural Indian households. We find that the gender shock reduces savings for medium and large farm households,...
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Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
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Information failures are a major barrier to formal financial saving in low income countries. Households in rural communities often lack the information necessary to set up formal deposit accounts or are uncertain about the returns to saving formally. In this paper, we explore the extent to which...
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Bevölkerung in Pakistan. Der Schwerpunkt der Studie ist die Beantwortung folgender Fragen: Auf welche Art und Weise sparen die … direkte Spartätigkeiten wie Bargeldsparen, Wertpapiersparen, Sparen in Fon11 von landwirtschaftlichen Produkten und … Zusammensetzung der Ersparnisse beweist, daß das Sparen in Form von Naturalien die stabilste, bevorzugtste, gewinnbringendste und …
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