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Does limited access to formal savings services impede business growth in poor countries? To shed light on this question … expenditures. We see no impact for bicycle-taxi drivers. These results imply significant barriers to savings and investment for …
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monthly deposits for them were at the 79th, 91st, and 96th percentiles of baseline savings. Survey data show no clearly … discernible intention-to-treat effects on savings or any downstream outcomes. This suggests that policies merely focused on …
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The welfare impact of expanding access to bank accounts depends on whether accounts crowd out pre-existing financial relationships, or whether private gains from accounts are shared within social networks. To study the effect of accounts on financial linkages, we provided free bank accounts to a...
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Using data from a field experiment in Kenya, we document that providing individuals with simple informal savings … providing a safe place to keep money was sufficient to increase health savings, through a mental accounting effect. Adding an … earmarking feature was only helpful when funds were put towards emergencies; earmarking for preventative health reduced savings …
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Many real-life settings of consumer-choice involve social interactions, causing targeted policies to have spillover-effects. This paper develops novel empirical tools for analyzing demand and welfare-effects of policy-interventions in binary choice settings with social interactions. Examples...
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