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Commitment or concealment? : Impacts and use of a portable saving device: Evidence from a field experiment in urban India
Steinert, Janina; Satish, Rucha Vasumati; Stips, Felix; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 193 (2022), pp. 367-397
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Advances and applications of experimental measures to test behavioral saving theories and a method to increase efficiency in binary and multiple treatment assignment
Schneider, Sebastian O. - 2017
This dissertation presents four independent papers that advance experimental methods and test theories on saving using experimentally elicited characteristics. The first two papers test two behavioral theories on precautionary saving based on the characteristics loss aversion and prudence by...
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Household economic strengthening through saving and budgeting : evidence from a field experiment in South Africa
Steinert, Janina Isabel; Cluver, Lucie Dale; Meinck, … - 2017
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Household economic strengthening through financial and psychosocial programming : evidence from a field experiment in South Africa
Steinert, Janina Isabel; Cluver, Lucie Dale; Meinck, … - In: Journal of development economics 134 (2018), pp. 443-466
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Commitment or concealment? : impacts and use of a portable saving device : evidence from a field experiment in urban India
Steinert, Janina Isabel; Satish, Rucha Vasumati; Stips, … - 2020
We study the impact of a portable "soft" commitment device on the financial behavior of low-income slum dwellers in Maharashtra, India. 1525 individuals were randomly allocated to receiving either a zip purse and a lockbox (treatment arm) or a lockbox only (control arm). Based on self-reported...
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Neighbourhood social capital, account usage and savings behaviour in low-income countries : field experimental evidence from Senegal
Behr, Patrick; Jacob, Jorge - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 36 (2024) 1, pp. 84-108
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Essays at the intersection of behavioral and development economics
Ashraf, Nava - 2005
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Improving access to savings through mobile money: experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 129 (2020), pp. 1-17
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Improving access to savings through mobile money : experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … money as a tool to promote agricultural investment. For this purpose, we designed and conducted a field experiment with a … interest was being paid. It also increased agricultural investment in fertilizer, although there was no change in investment in …
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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph P. H.; Morck, Randall; Yeung, Bernard - 2011
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