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Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ages, no borrowing constraint, little or no uncertainty, and no institutional restrictions on...
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-cognitive characteristics. This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China …
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children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …
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China and some other Asian countries have experienced skewed sex ratios, triggering intense competition and pressure in … the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, with half of men smoke while few women … market in China – affects their fathers' smoking behavior. We utilize two household longitudinal surveys as well as a random …
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This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...
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The Dutch mandatory pension system consists of two parts: a public pay-as-you-go part that provides a minimum income to all Dutch inhabitants over age 64; and an occupation-specific capital-funded part that provides supplementary retirement income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect...
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Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the US experienced a substantial increase in inequality and a continuous decrease in the aggregate...
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