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Precautionary Saving of Chinese and U.S. Households
Authors:HORAG CHOI  STEVEN LUGAUER  NELSON C MARK
Abstract:We employ a model of precautionary saving to study why household saving rates are high in China and low in the United States. The use of recursive preferences gives a convenient decomposition of saving into precautionary and nonprecautionary components. Over 80% of China's saving rate and nearly all U.S. saving arises from the precautionary motive. The difference between U.S. and Chinese household income growth rates is vastly more important than income risk for explaining the saving rates. The key mechanism is that precautionary savers have target wealth‐to‐income ratios, and rapid income growth necessitates high saving rates to maintain the ratio.
Keywords:E2  J1  precautionary saving  recursive preferences  China
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