Social Development & Welfare Planning

Demographic determinants of household savings with emphasis on age transition (Case Study: Tehran Household Heads)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

ali boudaghi 1
Behrouz Sadeghi Amroabadi 2

1 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor of Economics, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22054/qjsd.2022.64504.2269
Abstract

Abstract
Demographic variables play a decisive role in the level of savings. Therefore, the present research, using cross-sectional data and measuring the amount of savings among urban households in Tehran, intends to test its relationship with age transition. The research method is secondary analysis. The investigated data includes the information of 18,610 participating households in the sampling of the expenses and incomes of urban households in Tehran province in 2017 which is done annually by the Iranian Statistics Center and its raw information is provided to researchers. In this research From Dyson's theory of age transition and Modigliani and Endo's life cycle theory used as the theoretical framework of the research. The research findings show that the average percentage of savings among the surveyed middle to low households is 21.80. Also, based on the results of T, F mean difference tests, the average household savings according to the age variables of the head of the household. Gender and activity status are different. Also, the results show that the life cycle theory applies in the urban economy of Tehran and active young population has a more significant savings rate than the two spectrums of children-teenagers and the elderly.
Keywords: age transition, household savings, household head age, life cycle Model.

Keywords

age transition
household savings
household head age
life cycle Model
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Social Development & Welfare Planning
Volume 14, Issue 56
Summer 2023
Pages 277-312

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