determinants of household saving with special interest in the possible effects of network savings behavior on household savings … stimulate formal household savings making. We discuss the extent to which social networks may act as an effective information …

(i.e., the "gender shock") on the savings, consumption and income of rural Indian households. We find that the gender … shock reduces savings for medium and large farm households, although there is no evidence that the shock affects savings for … former group in order to determine the source of the drop in savings. The results indicate that the fall in savings …