Shidu parents in two counties of central China, whose only child dies for exogenous reasons and the mother can no longer … give birth for various reasons. Second, we construct a dynastic model of consumption and savings decisions in the presence … Shidu savings differential, while the lack of familial insurance among Shidu parents amounts to only about 10%. A different …

an in-depth analysis of micro-based data on household wealth across OECD countries. The analysis addresses several …

hypothesis, which is undoubtedly the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, and then survey the … literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with emphasis on the author's own past research) to shed light on whether or …

Household Panel which I complement with geographic and socio-economic data. I show that low- and middle-income households …

Japan's household saving rate showed great volatility, was often low and even negative, and was high only during the 25-year … trends over time in, Japan's household saving rate via various socioeconomic and policy variables. This seems to suggest that …

hitherto been boosted by historically high levels of household debt-financing. These events question the validity of … Keynesian relative income hypothesis, which claims that current income, its distribution, household borrowing, and household …

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

the household, their education, occupation, the type of the family and residence. About 399 homogeneous groups were … of the household had a significant influence on the ranks given by the household while residence type had no influence on … the ranks given by the household …

Eligibility and benefits for anti-poverty income transfers in the U.S. are based on both the means and the household … children. In our model workers face uninsurable idiosyncratic risks and make decisions on savings, labor supply, living … mothers, providing incentives to cohabit. We also find quantitatively important effects on savings, and on the labor supply of …