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dc.titleHousehold Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?
dc.contributor.authorAttanasio, Orazio P.
dc.contributor.authorSzékely, Miguel
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coveragePeru
dc.coverageMexico
dc.coverageChina
dc.coverageAsia
dc.coverageLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.date.available2011-02-07T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2000-07-01T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractEast Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past three decades. This paper compares household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First, we provide the first comparisons of savings in these two regions at the micro level using synthetic cohort techniques. Second, rather than focusing only on total household saving, as is common in the literature, we disaggregate the population into education groups to determine whether there are differences in saving behavior along the distribution of income. Third, we construct forecasts of future aggregate household saving rates, based on demographic projections. Fourth, we provide evidence that allows for testing the relevance of the life cycle model for explaining the differences in saving behavior.
dc.format.extent63
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010948
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Household-Saving-in-Developing-Countries---Inequality-Demographics-and-All-That-How-Different-are-Latin-America-and-South-East-Asia.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectIncome, Consumption and Saving
dc.subjectInvestment
dc.subjectSocial Development
dc.subject.keywordsWP-427;developing countries;demographic;labor supply;family composition;inequality;forecasting;family formation;wage
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberWorking Papers
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