evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile. The … 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 …

We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two … randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a … powerful tool to increase savings (the number of deposits grows 3.5-fold and the average savings balance almost doubles …

We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two … randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a … powerful tool to increase savings (the number of deposits grows 3.5-fold and the average savings balance almost doubles …

evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile. The … 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 …

evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile. The … 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 …

This paper studies how self-help groups?village-based organizations designed to encourage savings, household production …. The study finds that the program encouraged savings and associations via self-help groups. However it did not improve …

This paper studies how self-help groups?village-based organizations designed to encourage savings, household production …. The study finds that the program encouraged savings and associations via self-help groups. However it did not improve …

," aUSfederal program providing financial incentives to encourage retirement savings, on the decision to contribute to an IRA. It … impacts of clearly presented matching incentives. Various explanations are discussed for why the saver's credit is not more …