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Savings groups reduce vulnerability, but have mixed effects on financial inclusion
Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Valdivia, J. Martín - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial inclusion outcomes in rural Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on both survey and administrative records, we investigate the impact of savings groups after more...
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Electronic payment technology and tax compliance : evidence from Uruguay's financial inclusion reform
Brockmeyer, Anne - 2021
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The growing importance of consumer finance for financial inclusion in India
Ray, Saon; Miglani, Smita; Paul, Sandeep - 2018
Financial inclusion or access to financial services is a major development goal for all nations across the globe. The concept has a multitude of dimensions from payments and savings accounts, credit, insurance and pensions and securities market. Ensuring quality access to formal financial...
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Determinants of interregional financial inclusion heterogeneities in the Philippines
Burguillos, Je-Al; Cassimon, Danny - 2020
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Fintech entry, firm financial inclusion, and macroeconomic dynamics in emerging economies
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Mandelman, Federico S.; … - 2022
Financial inclusion is strikingly low in emerging economies. In only a few years, financial technologies (fintech) have led to a dramatic expansion in the number of non-traditional credit intermediaries, but the macroeconomic and credit-market implications of this rapid growth of fintech are not...
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The impact of a financial inclusion program on household's payment choice, savings, and credit
Gandelman, Néstor; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Misail, Daniel - 2023
Uruguay implemented an ambitious financial inclusion program that included a fiscal stimulus through VAT rebates and subsidies for point of sale (POS) adoption. One of its main provisions banned cash payment of wages and social benefits and forced financial institutions to open wage-accounts...
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Gender gaps in employment, wages, and work hours : assessment of COVID-19 implications
Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021
empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all … - rising as infections mounted and declining as the first wave flattened - overall, the pandemic did not exacerbate gender gaps …
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Investigating the gender wealth gap across occupational classes
Waitkus, Nora; Minkus, Lara - 2021
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Where the girls are not : households, teachers, and the gender gap in early math achievement
Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, Yyannú; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
We study the determinants of math achievement among children in early elementary school using data from a unique experiment. We find steep socioeconomic gradients and a substantial boy-girl gap in math test scores. However, among children of mothers with university education, there is no...
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How are gender norms perceived?
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, … - 2023
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