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100 _aBuragohain, T. and Das, S.K.
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245 _aPattern of households' savings: a tale of two surveys
260 _aThe India Journal of Economics
300 _a 99(393), Oct, 2018: p.193-203
520 _aThis paper attempts to assess the households’ savings behavior from two sets of nationality representative penal data- IHDS -1 and IHDS-II ( India Human development survey). The study finds that each income quintile is not a homogeneous grope. Among top income quintiles, there are households whose expenditure exceeds income. The study funds that households’ income is the major determinants of consumption expenditure and savings. The estimated marginal propensity to spend on consumption lies between zero and one among all quintiles. Hence, the satisfied the Keynesian hypothesis with recent primary households’ data. - Reproduced
650 _aIncome, Marginal income
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773 _aThe India Journal of Economics
906 _aHOUSEHOLD SAVINGS
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