@techreport{NBERw3871, title = "Younger Households Saving: Evidence From Japan and Italy", author = "Albert Ando and Luigi Guiso and Daniele Terlizzese and Daniel Dorsainvil", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "3871", year = "1991", month = "October", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w3871", abstract = {Both young and old consumers appear to dissave too little for their behaviour to be consistent with a strict life cycle model. We concentrate on young households and document their behaviour drawing from Italian and Japanese data. We also provide a theoretical set-up which can account for the observed fact without relying on assumptions about the working of credit markets or the degree of foresight of consumers.}, }