insurance purchase decisions. Indeed, only a few papers have tried to justify rigorously the gender-based differences in life … insurance ownership. Based on survey data collected by the Bank of Italy in 2012 (the Survey on Income and Households) we …. Geographical variables within Italy are significantly affecting the demand too. More importantly, we introduce novel variables …

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement … decisions to analyze how the design of a privatized pension system affects gender pension gaps. Chile has one of the longest … countries and was reformed in 2008 to alleviate old- age poverty and reduce gender pension gaps. The paper estimates the dynamic …

This paper aims at examining the influence of households' demographic characteristics on their savings behavior in the … East African region. The findings show that nearly people of all gender and age category in East Africa practice life cycle … model of savings behavior. It is concluded from the analysis that the preference of savings motive differs from one country …

structural characteristics of the household. The growing gap between the advisability and the possibility of saving is greater …