A sharp increase in the real interest rates in the U.S. in the 1980s was expected to induce a higher personal saving rate. Actually, between 1981 and 1983 the personal saving rate fell from 7.5 percen
In this paper I analyze the pattern of saving behavior by U.S. households, using the Consumer Expenditure (CEX) Survey. The analysis' main goal is to explain the decline in aggregate personal saving i
This dataset reports an analyzed version of the Chilean Family Expenditures Survey with variables created from the article: Madeira, C., The impact of the Chilean pension withdrawals during the Covid
