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Improved Cook Stoves for Climate Change Mitigation? Evidence of Values, Preferences and Carbon Savings from a Choice Experiment in Ethiopia
Dissanayake, Sahan - 2018
This paper investigates household preferences for improved cook stoves using a choice experiment administered in rural … this experiment can be cost-effective for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which suggests that programs providing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912330
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How Will China's Saving-Investment Balance Evolve?
Kuijs, Louis - 2016
This paper investigates how China's saving, investment, and saving-investment balance will evolve in the decades ahead. Household saving in China is relatively high compared with OECD countries. However, much of China's high economywide saving, and the difference between China and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748022
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Household Savings in Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe : How Do Poorer Households Save?
Beckmann, Elisabeth - 2019
and unique evidence on which households have savings and how they save. The paper shows that the percentage of savers is … low, and savings are frequently informal. Formal savings are dominated by bank savings, and participation in contractual … and capital market savings is very low in comparison to high-income countries. Poor households are significantly less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892367
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Conflict and the Nature of Precautionary Wealth
Aghabarari, Leila - 2018
The paper uses a detailed household survey to document precautionary wealth accumulation in Afghanistan, with wealth being significantly higher for households facing higher income uncertainty. Annual household expenditure on nondurable goods is also lower for these households. There is no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918376
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Population Aging and Households? Saving in the Russian Federation
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017
Using household data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, this paper assesses how aging affects saving. To overcome a systematic bias against the life-cycle hypothesis of survey data, the paper estimates how the age profile of saving changes when the micro data are corrected to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970824
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Should Latin America Save More to Grow Faster?
de la Torre, Augusto - 2017
A widely shared view holds that there is no policy-exploitable causal connection from saving to growth because domestic saving is fully endogenous, optimally determined, or substitutable by foreign saving. Yet, abandoning these assumptions, which are questionable in the real world of frictions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971285
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Self-Help Groups, Savings and Social Capital : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Cambodia
Ban, Radu - 2017
This paper studies how self-help groups?village-based organizations designed to encourage savings, household production …. The study finds that the program encouraged savings and associations via self-help groups. However it did not improve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971305
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Self-Help Groups, Savings and Social Capital : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Cambodia
Ban, Radu - 2017
This paper studies how self-help groups?village-based organizations designed to encourage savings, household production …. The study finds that the program encouraged savings and associations via self-help groups. However it did not improve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971317
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Weather Insurance Savings Accounts
Stein, Daniel - 2017
and experimentally analyzes an innovative financial product called a Weather Insurance Savings Account (WISA), which … combines savings and rainfall insurance. The paper uses a standard model of intertemporal insurance demand to study how … customers' demand for a WISA varies with the amount of insurance offered. A laboratory experiment is then used to elicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971897
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Handling the Weather : Insurance, Savings, and Credit in West Africa
de Nicola, Francesca - 2017
financial products: weather insurance, savings, and credit. The paper develops a dynamic stochastic mode to capture the … introducing a multiple on the insurance premium. Over time, however, savings can lead to substantial gains, higher than those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972015