The global economic financial crisis has reignited public interest 全球金融危机让人们对早在亚当·斯密时代 in something that's actually one of the oldest questions in economics, dating back to at least before Adam Smith.
So imagine that you're a retired household in Belgium and someone comes to your front door. 想象一下你是一个比利时的退休老人，有一天有人跑来敲你家的门。 "Excuse me, would you mind if I peruse your stock portfolio? “打扰了，你能跟我说下你的股票投
Holding down the right flank of the OECD, all the way on the other side, is Greece. 在图右侧的这些国家，最右边的是希腊， And what you can see is that over the last 25 years, 我们看到在过去25年 Greece has barely managed to save
Interestingly enough, when you start to crank the data, 有意思的是，当你开始收集数据时， these pockets of futureless language speakers all around the world turn out to be, by and large, some of the world's best saver
For example, most other Germanic language speakers 例如，说日尔曼语系的人 feel completely comfortable talking about rain tomorrow by saying, "Morgen regnet es," 会很自然的用以下的话表达明天下雨：“Morgen regnet es” quite literall
And in fact, if I want to speak correctly, Chinese forces me to constantly think about it. 事实上，如果要我不弄错的话，我就要不断的去想这之间的关系。 Now, that fascinated me endlessly as a child, 这是小时候让我很好奇的事情， but what fascinate
Now how can we think about health behaviors to think about savings? 我们能将健康相关的行为比作储蓄行为么？ Well, think about smoking, for example. Smoking is in some deep sense negative savings. 例如，吸烟这个事情，吸烟可以看作反向的储蓄。 I
What are the characteristics we can control for? 我们能够控制那些特征？ Well I'm going to match families on country of birth and residence, 我考虑的匹配包括出生地和居住地， the demographics -- what sex, their age -- their incom
