Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92601 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 676
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
In this paper, we conduct a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of the household saving rate in China using a life cycle model and panel data on Chinese provinces for the 1995-2004 period from China's household survey. We find that China's household saving rate has been high and rising and that the main determinants of variations over time and over space therein are the lagged saving rate, the income growth rate, (in many cases) the real interest rate, and (in some cases) the inflation rate. However, we find that the variables relating to the age structure of the population have the expected impact on the household saving rate in only one of the four samples. These results provide mixed support for the life cycle hypothesis as well as the permanent income hypothesis, are consistent with the existence of inertia or persistence, and imply that China's household saving rate will remain high for some time to come.
Subjects: 
age structure
China
demographics
dependency ratio
habit formation
household saving
household saving rate
household
inertia
life cycle hypothesis
life cycle model
permanent income hypothesis
persistence
saving
saving rate
JEL: 
D12
D91
E21
J10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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