-Economic Panel that we combine with geographic flood data, we compare the savings behavior of affected and non-affected individuals …

increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile. The … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical …

that granted access to a savings account to a random subset of households in 19 Nepalese villages. Exploiting a unique …

or income shocks by design and yet uncovers a similar trade-off in a world where agents are uncertain but hold beliefs …

Small-scale farming remains the primary source of income for a majority of the population in developing countries …' inability to cover short-term consumption needs with savings or credit. We conduct a field experiment in rural Zambia to …

the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2009 for black, white, and inter-racial couples. We consider the …