increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical … tool to encourage savings. …

increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical … tool to encourage savings. …

though traditional goals, such as retirement savings and precautionary savings, have been at the center of the academic …

increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical … tool to encourage savings …

increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical … tool to encourage savings. -- savings ; commitment device ; peer pressure ; field experiment …

adopt them “later”. However, across a large, multi-site field experiment of retirement savings decisions and three pre … and can even be harmful (e.g., reducing savings). We theorize that two opposing mechanisms account for this result. First …

This paper investigates how loss-aversion affects individuals' decisions on savings and insurance purchase …. Specifically, this paper empirically tests if prospect theory's loss aversion decreases insurance demand and increases savings …-life insurance, which serves as a partial savings instrument. These individuals also hold a higher level of wealth than others …