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 …

We examine household saving in the context of a prescriptive model. Using Survey of Consumer Finances data sets in the … accuracy of reporting by the respondent. Young households are more likely to report saving than older households. Black … households are less likely to report saving than white households. Single female households are less likely to report saving than …

The article quantifies the contributions made by different household groups to the change in the aggregate household … saving rate in Spain between 2007 and 2016. Against the backdrop of the last crisis – heightened uncertainty and significant … labour market deterioration – the findings show that certain household groups reduced their expenditure over the course of …

We examine the household consumption response to fluctuations in income and uncertainty, exploiting a large panel …, both household-specific income uncertainty and local labor market uncertainty depress consumption spending. We also find …

. Using data from the Chinese Household Income Project 1995 and 2002, I first show that the whole saving rate distribution … heterogeneous across the distribution: while rural saving increased the most at lower percentiles, urban saving experienced a larger … shift at higher percentiles. Moreover, decomposition in the saving distribution shows that most of the increase in the rural …

This study analyzed the relation between financial knowledge and household saving behavior using the 2016 Survey of … measurements of household savings and additional analyses of the 2015 National Financial Capability Study (NFCS) dataset …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using long-term time series … data for the 1975–2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after …

This paper examines the role of culture in households' saving decisions. Exploiting the historical language borders … Household Panel which I complement with geographic and socio-economic data. I show that low- and middle-income households …