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 …

imbalances tend to correspond with higher savings rates; (ii) household-level evidence suggest that: (a) families with unmarried … sons in rural regions with more skewed sex ratios tend to have higher savings rates, while savings rates of families with … unmarried daughters appear uncorrelated with gender imbalances; and (b) savings rates of families in cities tend to rise with …

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 …