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Savings Decisions

Savings Decisions is a household financial decision-making construct that specifies the process by which households allocate disposable income toward accumulation of financial or non-financial assets rather than immediate consumption, distinguished by its focus on intertemporal trade-offs, risk mitigation, and long-term economic security within the domestic economic unit.

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A Mathematical Theory of Saving

Frank Plumpton Ramsey · The Economic Journal · 1928 · 5.8K citations

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Save More Tomorrow™: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Saving

Richard H. Thaler, Shlomo Benartzi · Journal of Political Economy · 2004 · 2.5K citations

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Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Naeem Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wen‐Yan Yin · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2006 · 1.6K citations

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Saving and Uncertainty: The Precautionary Demand for Saving

Hayne E. Leland · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1968 · 1.4K citations

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Anomalies: Saving, Fungibility, and Mental Accounts

Richard H. Thaler · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 1990 · 956 citations · Full text

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    Michal Grinstein‐Weiss

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States

    10 publications · 288 citations

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  2. KS
    Klaus Schmidt‐Hebbel

    Banco Central de Chile

    10 publications · 930 citations

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  3. PG
    Paul Gerrans

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    9 publications · 382 citations

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  4. AL
    Annamaria Lusardi

    George Washington University, United States

    9 publications · 1K citations

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  5. JJ
    James J. Choi

    Yale University, United States

    9 publications · 1.6K citations

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Institutions

753

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    32 h-index

    100 publications

    10.7K citations

  2. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    18 h-index

    33 publications

    6.4K citations

  3. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    17 h-index

    25 publications

    6.1K citations

  4. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    16 h-index

    24 publications

    1.3K citations

  5. Federal Reserve

    Washington D.C., United States

    15 h-index

    28 publications

    1.3K citations

  6. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    15 h-index

    24 publications

    2.6K citations

  7. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    15 h-index

    24 publications

    1.2K citations

  8. World Bank

    Washington, United States

    14 h-index

    23 publications

    3.6K citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 121 publications · 3.7K citations

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  2. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 46 publications · 2K citations

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  3. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Repository · 24 publications · 1.6K citations

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  4. American Economic Review

    18 publications · 3.5K citations

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  5. The Economic Journal

    15 publications · 7.3K citations

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