composition of household savings? Using unique survey data for ten emerging market economies in Central, Eastern and Southeastern … a significant determinant of household saving behavior? How does trust in different financial institutions affect the … Europe, we show that trust in the financial system increases the probability of holding formal savings and the …

personal assets. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between financial literacy and household net worth, relying on … comprehensive measures of financial knowledge designed for a special module of the Dutch Central Bank Household Survey (DHS). Our … savings plan has been shown to boost wealth. Overall, financial literacy, both directly and indirectly, is found to have a …

This paper examines the role of spousal trust in intra-household decision making through its potential of inciting the … supplementary receipt of the private device significantly increased the wife's savings in couples with a low level of spousal trust … more effective hiding of the wife's savings amounts, facilitated through the private saving device. From a policy …

justifiably trusting their husbands), higher savings were achieved through wives' increased involvement in household decisions … higher savings. Our findings encourage household-based interventions to consider spouses' (mis)perceptions about intra-household … experiment, these spouses randomly received either only a joint savings device (control) or, additionally, a device for …