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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 … data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving …
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bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights …
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countries. This study aims to determine characteristics that affect levels of financial literacy in India and the impact of … financial literacy on investment behavior. Primary data from 309 respondents across India was collected for the purpose of the … study is among the first, if not the first, of its kind to be conducted in India. The findings have significant implications …
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taking behavior of individuals based on survey of 844 individuals across five cities in India. Probit regression has been …
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rainfall shocks as a source exogenous variation in household incomes, we empirically establish the presence of adjustment costs …
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We propose a new method to test for efficient risk pooling that allows for intertemporal smoothing, non-homothetic consumption, and heterogeneous risk and time preferences. The method is composed of three steps. The first one allows for precautionary savings by the aggregate risk pooling group....
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household data is used to capture household borrowing. Our findings are that there is a weak link between the borrowing patterns …
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inter-temporal trade-off between current household income and future potential earnings. Financial inclusion may mitigate or … exacerbate the human capital impacts of rainfall shocks depending on whether it relaxes or constrains household budgets. The data … come from a three-round panel household survey in rural Colombia collected between 2010-2016. The main findings are that …
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The present research extends the extant literature by investigating the hypothesis on whether marriage can be a substitute for financial inclusion in energy poverty reduction in Ghana. Pooled data and two stage least squares techniques are used in the estimation process and the validity of the...
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This paper examines the role of spousal trust in intra-household decision making through its potential of inciting the … India. 360 married couples were randomly assigned to either a control group, receiving a shared saving device (a lockbox … perspective, our findings have important implications for the design and evaluation of household-based (saving) interventions by …
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