Dependency Rates and Private Savings Behavior in Developing Countries

A firm theoretical basis for the empirical relationship between dependency rates and savings behavior in developing countries is still lacking. Two demographic extensions of the representative household’s stochastic dynamic optimization problem are presented here. It is shown that the relationship b...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1988
Series:IMF Working Papers
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653 |a Wealth 
653 |a Economics 
653 |a Income 
653 |a Private consumption 
653 |a Demographic Economics: General 
653 |a Saving 
653 |a Aggregate Factor Income Distribution 
653 |a National accounts 
653 |a Population and demographics 
653 |a Demography 
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653 |a Population 
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520 |a A firm theoretical basis for the empirical relationship between dependency rates and savings behavior in developing countries is still lacking. Two demographic extensions of the representative household’s stochastic dynamic optimization problem are presented here. It is shown that the relationship between expected dependency rates and consumption growth depends on two parameters: the demographically varying committed consumption and the intertemporal elasticity of substitution. Thus, the expected path of demographic variables can provide information on the consumers’ willingness to smooth consumption, and on the savings responsiveness to changes in the real interest rate