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A comparison of saving rates : micro evidence from seventeen Latin American and Caribbean countries

Gandelman, Néstor - 2015

Using micro data on expenditure and income for 17 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, this paper presents stylized facts on saving behavior by age, education, income and place of residence. Counterfactual saving rates are computed by imposing the saving behavior, the population...

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Do the rich save more in Latin America?

Gandelman, Néstor - 2015

-stage procedure in which the household's lifetime income is instrumented with the education level of the household head and the …

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Wealth transfers and homeownership in Malta

Antonaroli, Valentina; Deguara, Warren; Castaldo, … - 2025

of the Maltese Household Finance and Consumption Survey, we perform a logistic regression to investigate how financial …

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The impact of income inequality on household indebtedness in euro area countries

Jestl, Stefan - 2019

This paper examines the impact of income inequality on consumption-related household indebtedness at the household … level. Using the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey data, the analysis sheds light on …-related household indebtedness in a small sample of countries. We further employ a multilevel regression model to also take country …

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MPCs through COVID : spending, saving and private transfers

Crossley, Thomas F.; Fisher, Paul; Levell, Peter; Low, … - 2021

MPCs were directly elicited from a representative sample of UK adults in July 2020 using receipt of a hypothetical unanticipated, one-time income payment. Reported MPCs are low, around 11% on average. They are higher, but still modest, for individuals in households with high current needs. These...

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MPCs in an economic crisis : spending, saving and private transfers

Crossley, Thomas F.; Fisher, Paul; Levell, Peter; Low, … - 2021

MPCs were directly elicited from a representative sample of UK adults in July 2020 using receipt of a hypothetical unanticipated, one-time income payment. Reported MPCs are modest, around 11% on average. They are higher, but still modest, for individuals in households with high current needs....

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MPCs through COVID : spending, saving and private transfers

Crossley, Thomas F.; Fisher, Paul; Levell, Peter; Low, … - 2020

MPCs were directly elicited from a representative sample of UK adults in July 2020. Reported MPCs are low, around 11% on average. They are higher, but still modest, for individuals in households with high current needs. These low MPCs may be a consequence of the prevailing economic uncertainty....

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Saving after retirement and preferences for residual wealth

Fella, Giulio; Holm, Martin Blomhoff; Pugh, Thomas - 2024

We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples with a bequest motive, health-dependent utility, and uncertain longevity and health. We allow the parameters of the bequest utility to differ between households with and without...

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The effect of non-contributory pensions on saving in Mexico

Alonso Ortiz, Jorge; Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Juarez, … - 2016

themselves have no significant effects on household saving rates in the smallest localities, but in larger localities they may … some age groups. Finally, the paper provides evidence on household-level labor supply responses. …

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Optimal default policies in defined contribution pension plans when employees are biased

Ivanov, Asen - 2018

This paper analyses a model in which employees are biased in their perception of their optimal contribution rates or asset allocations in defined contribution pension plans. The optimal default is characterised as a function of the parameters. It is shown that, for some values of the parameters,...

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