This study examines the take-up, use, and impact of Islamic savings accounts for poor Muslim clients of an MFI in … Pakistan, using a randomized controlled trial. We specifically focus on the impact of opening Islamic savings accounts on women …’s empowerment. The main results strongly suggest that a successful intervention to increase uptake of savings among a sample of …

Savings have an important role as alternative funding when the primary income is in trouble. Previous research on …, anticipatory, psychological and social, profit, self-obligation, financial service, savings product marketing, job profile, self …

We study a retirement savings plan with a default contribution rate of 12% of income, which is much higher than …

voluntary federal government employee retirement savings vehicle called the Thrift Savings Plan. The G-Fund is managed as …

) on their savings. We find some tolerance to NIR, i.e. people being willing to let money in the bank, rather than spend it …, and thereby accepting to have less at some later time than now. This tolerance strongly depends on the amount of savings …, time horizon, individual savings behavior, and anchoring. Specifically, the higher the amount, the lower the tolerance to …