in opposing forces on savings: mortality increases, which reduces savings, and long-term illness risk increases, which … increased mortality decreases the amount of savings and that having a high perception of HIV contamination risk increases …This paper studies the effect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behaviour. Two important characteristics of HIV result …

This paper models the effect of a HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behavior and studies the welfare effects of testing for … consumption after being tested HIV positive. The paper describes different effects on aggregate savings according to different … stages of the epidemic. We show that the HIV epidemic decreases savings if especially young individuals are (perceived to be …

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

is compared with hyperbolic discounting within a standard life-cycle setting of consumption and savings. We show …

cycle. Decreasing discounting helps a canonical life-cycle model to explain the household saving puzzles of undersaving when …