Explaining Filipino Households’ Declining Saving Rate

A Longitudinal Approach to Measuring Income Mobility among Filipino Households

Growth and Saving among Individuals and Households

The lifecycle theory of saving and consumption predicts that changes in an economy’s rate of economic growth will affect its aggregate saving rate by changing the lifetime resources of younger people relative to older people. However, studies that track the saving behavior of cohorts of household heads over time as they age have yielded estimates of age-saving profiles that are too flat for gro...

Growth, Convergence and Spending Efficiency among Filipino Households

A growth model is used in the context of Sala-i-Martin’s definition of conditional convergence to assess the household income dynamics in segmented groups at the provincial level in the Philippines. There is a direct relationship between spending efficiency and income growth convergence across income groups. The lower income convergence rate among low income households can be attributed to thei...

Explaining the generational gap of migrant households

Abstract Quantitative work has demonstrated that among immigrant groups in the United States there are quite varied differences in inter-generational outcomes. This paper presents a qualitative examination as to what produces these differences. The underlying theory is that educational outcome differences are due to exogenous shocks that alter household educational investment choices. This pape...

Declining Block and Seasonal Rate Standards Declining Block Rates

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