Precautionary Saving from Different Sources of Income : Evidence from Rural Pakistan

Few studies have tried to measure how households in a developing country save from each of the different income sources at their disposal. To help fill that gap, the Author uses five-year panel data to examine how households in rural Pakistan save...

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Main Author:	Adams, Richard H., Jr.
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	SAVINGS BEHAVIOR HOUSEHOLD INCOME RURAL AREAS RURAL CREDIT INCOME GAPS MARGINAL COSTS REMITTANCES RENTAL PROPERTY PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE INCOME VARIABILITY CAPITAL-OUTPUT RATIO CREDIT MARKETS AVERAGE RATE BASE YEAR CAPITAL INVESTMENT CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION FUNCTION CONSUMPTION GROWTH DATA SET DATA SETS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DURABLE GOODS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STUDIES EMPIRICAL RESULTS EMPIRICAL STUDIES EMPLOYMENT EQUATIONS EXPECTED UTILITY EXPENDITURES FARM INCOME FOOD POLICY RESEARCH GROWTH RATE HETEROSKEDASTICITY HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INCOME COMPONENTS INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROUPS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME QUINTILES INCOME SOURCE INCOME SOURCES INCOMES INFLATION INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES LINEAR RELATIONSHIP MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO CONSUME MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO SAVE MARGINAL UTILITY MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS MPC MPS 0 HYPOTHESIS PERMANENT INCOME PERMANENT INCOME HYPOTHESIS POLITICAL ECONOMY POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYMENT REAL RATE REAL RATE OF INTEREST REGRESSION ANALYSIS RISK AVERSION RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SAVINGS SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES SURVEY DATA UNDERESTIMATES VALUATION WEALTH WEIGHTED AVERAGE
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