IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8692

Political Uncertainty and Household Savings

Rolf Aaberge, Kai Liu, Yu Zhu

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 45 (2017): 154-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8211

Pension Design with a Large Informal Labor Market: Evidence from Chile

Clement Joubert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8120

Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030

Mthuli Ncube, Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Zorobabel Bicaba

revised version published as 'Can Extreme Poverty be Eliminated in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030?' in: Journal of African Development, 2017, 19 (2), 93 - 110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7910

Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Marianna Kudlyak, John Mondragon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7819

Understanding Chinese Consumption: The Impact of Hukou

Christian Dreger, Tongsan Wang, Yanqun Zhang

publlished in: Development and Change, 2015, 46 (6), 1331 -1344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7806

Hidden Insurance in a Moral Hazard Economy

Giuseppe Bertola, Winfried Koeniger

revised version published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2015, 46 (4), 777-790

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7773

Behind the Great Recession: Job Search and Housing Decisions

Silvio Rendon, Núria Quella

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7488

Should Unemployment Insurance Be Asset-Tested?

Sebastian Koehne, Moritz Kuhn

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2015, 18 (3), 575-592

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7223

China's High Saving Puzzle

Guonan Ma, Dennis T. Yang

published in: Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shnag-Yin Wei and Xiaobo Zhang (eds): Oxford Companion to the Economics of China, 2014, 190-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7083

Income Inequality and Saving

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Mayssun El-Attar

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (6), 1029 - 1061

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7026

Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle

Suqin Ge, Dennis T. Yang, Junsen Zhang

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 101, 181 - 209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6964

Aggregate Savings and External Imbalances in China

Dennis T. Yang

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2012, 26 (4), 125–146.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6927

Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts

Kadir Atalay, Fayzan Bakhtiar, Stephen L. Cheung, Robert Slonim

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107 (A), 86-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6824

Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving

Patricia Apps, Yuri Andrienko, Ray Rees

published as 'Risk and Precautionary Saving in Two-Person Households' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (3), 1040-1046

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6771

Happiness and the Persistence of Income Shocks

Christian Bayer, Falko Juessen

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7 (4), 160–187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6648

Is It Money or Brains? The Determinants of Intra-Family Decision Power

Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Costanza Torricelli

revised version published as 'Who Holds the Purse Strings within the Household? The Determinants of Intra-family Decision Making' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 101, 65-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6385

Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in Inter-Temporal Choice

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, Uwe Sunde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6046

The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

Raquel Fernández, Joyce Cheng Wong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5657

Network Effects on Migrants' Remittances

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll

published as 'Immigrant Networks and Remittances: Cheaper Together?' in: World Development, 2018 111 (C), 225-245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5653

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