household-level Finnish Wealth Survey suggest that the share of liquidity-constrained households has declined over the same time …We study whether the level of household indebtedness is related to the interest rate elasticity of private consumption … even as the household sector's debt-to-income ratio has almost doubled in the past 20 years. Estimates based on the …

From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 8 percentage points, to about one quarter … of disposable income. We use household-level data to explain why households are postponing consumption despite rapid … profile of savings has an unusual U-shaped pattern, with saving rates being the highest among the youngest and oldest …