This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged … and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India, where the bride's side has to pay substantial …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after … controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India …

greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where …

missing from credit bureau data act as a drag on state-level consumption growth. This finding seems to be driven by young …There are more young adults today with either no credit history or insufficient credit history to be scored by one of … the major credit bureaus than there were before the Great Recession−a reality that is likely an unintended outcome of the …

that household consumption drops after a child moves out of a household, while at the same time, per capita consumption …

I examine the impact of happiness on consumption and savings behavior using data from the DNB Household Survey from the …

adults missing from credit bureau data act as a drag on state-level consumption growth. This finding seems to be driven by …There are more young adults today with either no credit history or insufficient credit history to be scored by one of … the major credit bureaus than there were before the Great Recession−a reality that is likely an unintended outcome …

If some consumers are liquidity-constrained, aggregate consumption should be ‘excessively sensitive’ to credit … United Kingdom and the United States, we find a substantial impact of credit aggregates on consumption in all countries … considered. Moreover, the borrowing/lending wedge is a significant determinant of consumption in Canada, Japan and the United …

If some consumers are liquidity-constrained, aggregate consumption should be `excessively sensitive' to credit …, the United Kingdom, Japan and France, we find a substantial impact of credit aggregates on consumption in all countries … considered. Moreover, the borrowing/lending wedge is a significant determinant of consumption in the United States, Canada and …