Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving

Patricia Apps (), Yuri Andrienko and Ray Rees

No 6824, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when the two-earner household's saving decision is formulated more generally, standard assumptions suffice for precautionary saving to exist under increases in risk of the first and second orders, but not for higher orders.

Keywords: precautionary saving; risk order; two-earner households (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 D13 D14 D81 D91 E21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2012-08
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Published - published as 'Risk and Precautionary Saving in Two-Person Households' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (3), 1040-1046

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