Precautionary Wealth and Financial Access : Evidence from Afghanistan
Households accumulate wealth as a reserve against unexpected contingencies. We employ a detailed household survey in Afghanistan to study how non-housing wealth accumulation of households varies with labor income uncertainty. We find that households facing higher income uncertainty accumulate si...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/334701522101910190/Precautionary-wealth-and-financial-access-evidence-from-Afghanistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30040 |