aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … lower household saving rates in Japan and China …We present a model of household life-cycle saving decisions in order to quantify the impact of demographic changes on …

population aging over the period 2000–14. While there is little doubt that household savings have decreased, the true trend … of risky assets in household portfolios increases with age and barely decreases even for retired households. The main … sources of increasing household wealth are the increasing wealth of the elderly and the increasing proportion of the wealthier …

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 … their children than other peoples, suggesting that the alleged social norm of strong family ties in Japan is largely a myth …