The impact of pre-marital sex ratios on household saving in two Asian countries: The competitive saving motive revisited

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This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the pre-marital sex (or gender) ratio (the ratio of males to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India, where the bride's side has to pay substantial dowries to the groom's side at marriage, but a positive impact in Korea, where, as in China, the groom's side has to bear a disproportionate share of marriage-related expenses including purchasing a house or condominium for the newlywed couple.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ISER Discussion Paper ; No. 975

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; Household Saving; Personal Finance ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡ ; Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth ; Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
• Subject: Age structure of the population ; competitive saving motive ; dowries ; gender ratio ; household saving rate ; life cycle hypothesis ; marriage expenses ; pre-marital sex ratio ; population control ; saving for education ; saving for marriage ; saving rate ; sex ratio ; son preference ; wedding expenses ; Korea ; India

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Horioka, Charles Yuji ; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Osaka
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/148202
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