China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations … include demographic, policy, and financial causes. Yet a lack of reliable microlevel data on household finances makes it … primary causes of high levels of savings among Chinese households …

household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights … this alternative motive for savings in dowry-paying societies. However, we find no impacts of dowry expectations on son …-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls. …

affects the saving behavior of the subjects. Savings are higher when they are incentivized with matching contributions than …

effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive …, the negative effect of social security on fertility tends to erode the system s own contributory base, because it reduces …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series … data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …