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Under-savers anonymous : evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530133
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Under-savers anonymous : evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486065
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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe - 2012
We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two … randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a … powerful tool to increase savings (the number of deposits grows 3.5-fold and the average savings balance almost doubles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099420
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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe - 2012
We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two … randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a … powerful tool to increase savings (the number of deposits grows 3.5-fold and the average savings balance almost doubles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460243
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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110869
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Under-savers anonymous: Evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282613
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The Unbanked
Johnston, Don Jr.; Morduch, Jonathan - 2008
To analyze the prospects for expanding financial access to the poor, bank professionals assessed 1,438 households in six provinces in Indonesia to judge their creditworthiness. About 40 percent of poor households were judged creditworthy according to the criteria of Indonesia's largest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561547
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Saving more in groups : field experimental evidence from Chile
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - In: Journal of development economics 133 (2018), pp. 275-294
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983502
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Understanding domestic savings in Chile
Cerda, Rodrigo; Fuentes S. M., J. Rodrigo; García, Gonzalo - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485555