Understanding Why High Income Households Save More Than Low Income Households

By M. Huggett, Gustavo Ventura. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Credit constraints and growth in a global economy (2012, background): “Meanwhile, the saving rate of the middle-aged (35-54) in China rose by about 15 percentage points more in China than in the U.”
• Luxury Goods and the Equity Premium (2004, unknown): “…of basic consumption, as measured in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) or the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), is more equally distributed across households than the distribution of permanent income or wealth (see Dynan, Skinner, and Zeldes (2000) and Huggett and Ventura (2000)).”
• The distribution of wealth (2000, background): “In a related exercise, Huggett and Ventura (1998) investigate the determinants of the higher saving rate in the US among higher income households.”