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Financial literacy, economic preferences, and adolescents' field behavior
Razen, Michael; Huber, Jürgen; Hueber, Laura; … - 2020
Financial literacy and economic preferences are considered to be important drivers of health, income, and general well-being. In this paper we bridge the gap between studies on financial literacy and research on economic preferences by how they interplay with each other and the field behavior of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203420
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One size doesn't fit all : plurality of social norms and saving behavior in Kenya
Fromell, Hanna; Nosenzo, Daniele; Owens, Trudy; Tufano, … - 2019
kin and neighbors. Whether income secrecy facilitates savings depends on the type of norm individuals uphold: stricter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131669
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Linking savings behavior, confidence and individual feedback : a field experiment in Ethiopia
Avdeenko, Alexandra; Bohne, Albrecht; Frölich, Markus - 2019
In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing … savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive effects on various outcomes such as … health, education, and agricultural investments. We causally identify a strong increase in savings to a soft commitment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126111
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Linking Savings Behavior, Confidence and Individual Feedback : A Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Avdeenko, Alexandra - 2019
In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing … savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive effects on various outcomes such as … health, education, and agricultural investments. We causally identify a strong increase in savings to a soft commitment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858261
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On the basis of (mis)trust? : spousal trust and trustworthiness in household decision making: experimental evidence from India
Sternberg, Henrike; Steinert, Janina; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021 - This version: April 11, 2021
supplementary receipt of the private device significantly increased the wife's savings in couples with a low level of spousal trust … more effective hiding of the wife's savings amounts, facilitated through the private saving device. From a policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498329
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What's psychology worth? : a field experiment in the consumer credit market
Bertrand, Marianne; Karlan, Dean; Mullainathan, Sendhil; … - 2005
Numerous laboratory studies report on behaviors inconsistent with rational economic models. How much do these inconsistencies matter in natural settings, when consumers make large, real decisions and have the opportunity to learn from experiences? We report on a field experiment designed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612044
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What's advertising content worth? : evidence from a consumer credit marketing field experiment
Bertrand, Marianne; Karlan, Dean; Mullainathan, Sendhil; … - 2009
Firms spend billions of dollars each year advertising consumer products in order to influence demand. Much of these outlays are on the creative design of advertising content. Creative content often uses nuances of presentation and framing that have large effects on consumer decision making in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811505
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What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment
Bertrand, Marianne; Karlan, Dean S.; Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2009
Firms spend billions of dollars each year advertising consumer products in order to influence demand. Much of these outlays are on the creative design of advertising content. Creative content often uses nuances of presentation and framing that have large effects on consumer decision making in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014211033
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Pro-Environmental Incentives and Loss Aversion : A Field Experiment on Electricity Saving Behavior
Ghesla, Claus - 2020
This paper reports evidence from a field experiment investigating households' electricity saving behavior. We motivated households' efforts to save electricity via pro-environmental incentives that did not affect people's monetary utility but targeted their environmental preferences. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852219
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The impact of financial education on adolescents' intertemporal choices
Lührmann, Melanie; Serra-Garcia, Marta; Winter, Joachim - 2014
We examine the impact of a large high-school financial education program on the intertemporal choices of adolescents. We randomly assigned the program among a sample of almost 1,000 students and measured their intertemporal choices using an incentivized experiment. While intertemporal choices in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382723