Recent influential papers claim that single men's saving competition for marriage intensified by an increase in the male-to-female ratio in the pre-marital cohort explains 60 percent of the rise of China's aggregate household savings rate. In this paper, we analyze whether the marriage...

This paper studies how demographics, such as the number of children in a family, affect various motives to save. We make two contributions with this paper. First, we document findings from a unique dataset derived through our survey of Shidu parents in two counties of central China, whose only...