The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - a relatively new and not well … management of short and long term savings (i.e., pension wealth) while avoiding unnecessary administrative costs. The paper … comparison to developed countries. -- Unemployment insurance ; unemployment insurance savings accounts ; unemployment …

, good-specific discounting, under certain conditions, can explain the persistence of poverty and low savings by the poor … ; good-specific discounting ; savings ; poverty traps …

Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially …-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase savings among these at …-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …