reconcile with the Chinese experience. In China, saving is a family affair. This paper constructs a model of household saving … generations of households altogether. Optimal saving is a function of the household's lifetime income, gifts and bequests, and the … consumption smoothing in China …

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 …Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic …

an in-depth analysis of micro-based data on household wealth across OECD countries. The analysis addresses several …

hypothesis, which is undoubtedly the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, and then survey the … literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with emphasis on the author's own past research) to shed light on whether or …

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 …

households. Using data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth covering the financial crisis, we are able … separately. We find that Italian households were able to smooth on average about 85% of shocks to household head's earnings in … both 2008-2010 and 2010-2012 spells. The most important smoothing mechanisms turn out to be self‐insurance through savings …