We use unique data characterizing individual savings for twins and non-twins in urban China to examine why the savings … necessary to take into account inter-generational co-residence, an important phenomenon in China and in many developing … China, but also indicate that in urban China neither old-age support by the young nor the one-child policy are major factors …

China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with …

aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … saving rates, while decreasing family size increases saving for both China and India. Projecting forward, the model predicts … lower household saving rates in Japan and China …

In this paper, we conduct a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of the household saving rate in China using a … life cycle model and panel data on Chinese provinces for the 1995-2004 period from China?s household survey. We find that … China?s household saving rate has been high and rising and that the main determinants of variations over time and over space …

We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace …

China experiences an increasingly severe relative surplus of men in the pre-marital age cohort. The existing literature … likelihood for parents with a son to be entrepreneurs rises with the local sex ratio. Third, households with a son in regions …