Motivated by recent empirical work, this paper formalizes a theory of competitive savings - an arms race in household … conditions under which aggregate savings would go up in response to a higher sex ratio? This theory can potentially help to … savings for mating competition that is made more fierce by an increase in the male-to-female ratio in the pre-marital cohort …

This short essay surveys recent literature on the competitive saving motive and its broader economic implications. The … competitive saving motive is defined as saving to improve one's status relative to other competitors for dating and marriage … imbalances tend to correspond with higher savings rates; (ii) household-level evidence suggest that: (a) families with unmarried …

Motivated by recent empirical work, this paper formalizes a theory of competitive savings - an arms race in household … conditions under which aggregate savings would go up in response to a higher sex ratio? This theory can potentially help to … savings for mating competition that is made more fierce by an increase in the male-to-female ratio in the pre-marital cohort …