Airlangga Summer Program 2015-Indonesia

Airlangga Summer Program 2015-Indonesia
Airlangga Summer Program 2015-Indonesia

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Summary of A Journal Paper: “Early influences on saving behavior: Analysis of British panel data”

Microeconomics Term Paper

“Early influences on saving behavior: Analysis of British panel data” research paper is the work of Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor and it was published in Journal of Banking and Finance 62 (2016) 1-14 in 2015. The purpose of their study is to find out the determinants of saving behavior of children, the relationship between childhood saving behavior and adulthood saving behavior and the influence of parent’s saving behavior on children saving behavior. This study contributes to the existing empirical works on saving by investigating the saving behavior of individuals overtime from childhood (aged 11-15) to early adulthood (aged 17-30).