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Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare : A Dynamic Analysis

Blau, David M. - 2011

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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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Characteristics in Rural China

Leight, Jessica - 2018

-cognitive characteristics. This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China …

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Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China

Glewwe, Paul - 2017

children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …

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Does Daughter Deficit Promote Parental Substance Use? Longitudinal Evidence on Smoking from Rural China

Chen, Xi - 2017

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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A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2014

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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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 2004

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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Income Inequality and Saving

Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco - 2013

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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Sexual Orientation and Household Savings : Do Homosexual Couples Save More?

Negrusa, Brighita - 2010

We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and lesbian couples own significantly more retirement income than heterosexuals, while cohabiting heterosexuals save more than their married counterparts. In a household savings model,...

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Determinants of Savings and Remittances : Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany

Sinning, Mathias - 2021

This paper investigates the determinants of migrants' financial transfers to their home country using German data. A double-hurdle model is applied to analyze the determinants of the propensity to send transfers abroad and the amount of transfers. The findings reveal that return intentions...

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Household Responses to Trade Shocks

Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2023

We use large-scale panel data from linked decadal censuses in England and Wales to study the responses of both individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. We test whether partners provide insurance against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply....

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