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 …

scarce. This paper studies two natural experiments to identify the effects of tax incentives and bequest motives on life …

We designed a commitment savings product for a Philippine bank and implemented it using a randomized control … methodology. The savings product was intended for individuals who want to commit now to restrict access to their savings, and who … for commitment, were indeed significantly more likely to open the commitment savings account. After twelve months, average …

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

This paper constructs time series data on savings per type of agent for Chile during the period 1960-2012. It is found … that the economy's average savings rate increased by 11 percentage points in the period 1985-2012 compared to 1960- 1984 …, with particularly pronounced growth in corporate savings. The evidence suggests that this increase was driven largely by …

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. …