The gradual shift in responsibility for welfare provision, from the government to individuals, is making household … which they save.Unlike income or expenditure, there is no official individual or household survey collecting detailed … the incentives created by policy changes.This report reviews the economics of household saving, the taxation of financial …

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …

We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a … be flexibly estimated across age groups. We find that the Scottish policy reduced the average household saving by about … £7,200. Moreover, the estimated effects are heterogeneous across age groups of the head of household: these effects are …