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Title: Precautionary Saving by Young Immigrants and Young Natives
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1. Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
Pozo, Susan
Precautionary Saving by Young Immigrants and Young Natives
Southern Economic Journal 69,1 (July 2002): 48-72.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1061556
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Southern Economic Association
Keyword(s): Immigrants; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Modeling; Savings; Wealth

Explores the wealth accumulation patterns of younger cohorts as well as immigrants' and natives' precautionary saving in response to income uncertainty using the 1979 Young Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys. Time-varying, conditional measure of income uncertainty; Buffer-stock model of savings.
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Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina and Susan Pozo. "Precautionary Saving by Young Immigrants and Young Natives." Southern Economic Journal 69,1 (July 2002): 48-72.