An overlooked explanation of the declining saving rate |
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Authors: | R. Brenner Marcel G. Dagenais C. Montmarquette |
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Affiliation: | 1. Centre de recherche et developpment en économique (CRDE), Université de Montreal, Canada 2. Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada 3. CRDE, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale A, H3C 3J7, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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Abstract: | With a socioeconomic model of the determinants of savings that takes into account variables reflecting the abrupt changes in the divorce rate that occurred during the 1970s and the 1980s in the U.S., the increase in women's participation in the labour force, and their greater investrnent in education, we explain part of the measured decline in the saving rate. The uncertainty generated by the increased likelihood of divorces encourages households and women, in particular, to substitute human capital to financial or physical capital for precautionary savings.The authors thank Anna J. Schwartz and Pierre Perron for helpful suggestions and Anne-Marie El Hakim for her dedicated assistance on this project. The comments of the editor and of an anonymous referee contributed to improve the final version of the paper. The project was financed, in part, by a grant of the Quebec FCAR Fund. |
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Keywords: | KeywordHeading" >JEL Classification System-Number D19 |
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