This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … demographic factors, we show that households headed by public employees have higher saving rates than other households. This … children and they have a higher saving capacity than non-public employees due to better social security. Our results contribute …

asymmetries of savings out of factor incomes. This generalized model helps to shed new light on a recent debate concerning the … the particular savings hypothesis. However, if savings out of capital income are substantial so that a certain threshold …

A large fraction of households have very little savings buffer and are therefore vulnerable to financial shocks. This … link to a personal web page where they can start or adjust an automatic savings plan. However, analyzing detailed bank data …, we find no treatment effect on actual savings, neither in the short run nor in the long run. Our null findings are quite …

cycle. Decreasing discounting helps a canonical life-cycle model to explain the household saving puzzles of undersaving when …