Many governments set up large public preschool programs in order to expand ac- cess to early education (crowd-in). Public preschools, however, tend to crowd-out private preschool enrollment. This makes such programs less cost-effective because public finances are used to pay for preschool for...

A method to impute consumption expenditure inequality between wealth groups in the Survey of Consumer Finances is provided, allowing for measurement error that is correlated with income and wealth. Identification is derived from observing food at home and food away from home, which are relative...

This paper studies how demographics, such as the number of children in a family, affect various motives to save. We make two contributions with this paper. First, we document findings from a unique dataset derived through our survey of Shidu parents in two counties of central China, whose only...

This paper studies how demographics, such as the number of children in a family, affect various motives to save. We make two contributions with this paper. First, we document findings from a unique dataset derived through our survey of Shidu parents in two counties of central China, whose only...