Understanding the role of savings in promoting positive wellbeing

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Report

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July 15, 2024

Summary:

This report explores the positive short- and long-term impacts that saving can have for people’s wellbeing, and considers what research tells us about how we could encourage more people to start saving. It is based on: a review of evidence on the relationship between saving and wellbeing; and on new analysis of large-scale survey data from a study called Understanding Society.

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https://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/research/pfrc/themes/capability-behaviours-wellbeing/savings-wellbeing/

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