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Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth Households in China
- Source :
- Asian Economic Journal. 31:275-297
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2017.
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Abstract
- The wealthy hand-to-mouth are households who are poor in liquid wealth (e.g. cash and checking accounts) and rich in illiquid wealth (e.g. housing and retirement accounts), while the poor hand-to-mouth are poor in both liquid and illiquid wealth. Data from the China Household Finance Survey reveal the following facts about the country’s wealthy hand-to-mouth. First, they represent the majority of the hand-to-mouth households in China. Second, they have different wealth portfolios and demographic features from the poor hand-to-mouth. Finally, they have larger consumption responses to income fluctuations than non-hand-to-mouth households, after controlling for endogeneity, income, hand-to-mouth status and other household characteristics.
- Subjects :
- Consumption (economics)
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05 social sciences
Geography, Planning and Development
Development
Market liquidity
Checking Accounts
stomatognathic system
Cash
0502 economics and business
Economics
Demographic economics
Endogeneity
Household finance
050207 economics
China
050205 econometrics
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Details
- ISSN :
- 13513958
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Asian Economic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........38d703305c0fc0715ef9e23539c51830