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 …

situation can be closely monitored, but that it might be a very important complement when savings inhibit observing financial …

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non …-migrant. Although migrants lose their original social networks whilst overseas, savings and human capital accumulation acquired abroad … entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. …

This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we … mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer …

tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … incentive system without changing the incentive system. The results indicate that salience of incentives itself is statistically … and economically important for performance. We find that higher salience of incentives for quantity increases quantity …