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Loose knots : strong versus weak commitments to save for education in Uganda
Karlan, Dean; Linden, Leigh L. - 2014
, weaker restrictions may be a more effective means of changing behavior. We test this using a school-based commitment savings … which savings are available for cash withdrawal but intended for educational expenses. The weaker commitment generates … increased savings in the program accounts and when combined with a parent outreach program, higher expenditures on educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229900
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Loose knots : strong versus weak commitments to save for education in Uganda
Karlan, Dean; Linden, Leigh L. - 2014
, weaker restrictions may be a more effective means of changing behavior. We test this using a school-based commitment savings … which savings are available for cash withdrawal but intended for educational expenses. The weaker commitment generates … increased savings in the program accounts and when combined with a parent outreach program, higher expenditures on educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010236461
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Loose Knots : Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda
Karlan, Dean S. - 2016
, weaker restrictions may be a more effective means of changing behavior. We test this using a school-based commitment savings … which savings are available for cash withdrawal but intended for educational expenses. The weaker commitment generates … increased savings in the program accounts and when combined with a parent outreach program, higher expenditures on educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006825
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Loose Knots : Strong Versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda
Karlan, Dean S. - 2014
, weaker restrictions may be a more effective means of changing behavior. We test this using a school-based commitment savings … which savings are available for cash withdrawal but intended for educational expenses. The weaker commitment generates … increased savings in the program accounts and when combined with a parent outreach program, higher expenditures on educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060131
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The impact of school-based financial education on high school students and their teachers : experimental evidence from Peru
Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2018
Using data from a randomized controlled trial in 300 public high schools in Peru, this paper studies the potential of school-based financial education programs for youth. The intervention improves students’ and teachers’ financial knowledge by 0.14 SD and 0.32 SD, respectively. The impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882060
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Banking the unbanked? : evidence from three countries
Karlan, Dean; Dupas, Pascaline; Robinson, Jonathan; … - 2016
were at the 79th, 91st, and 96th percentiles of baseline savings. Survey data show no clearly discernible intention …-to-treat effects on savings or any downstream outcomes. This suggests that policies merely focused on expanding access to basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516848
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Loose knots: Strong versus weak commitments to save for education in Uganda
Karlan, Dean; Linden, Leigh - 2014
, weaker restrictions may be a more effective means of changing behavior. We test this using a school-based commitment savings … which savings are available for cash withdrawal but intended for educational expenses. The weaker commitment generates … increased savings in the program accounts and when combined with a parent outreach program, higher expenditures on educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369084
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Economic or non-economic factors: What empowers women?
Swain, Ranjula Bali; Wallentin, Fang Yang - 2008
Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of financial services. We investigate this further to determine whether it is the economic or the non-economic factors that have a greater impact on empowering women. Using household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321453
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Economic or non-economic factors : what empowers women?
Swain, Ranjula Bali (contributor);  … - 2008
Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of financial services. We investigate this further to determine whether it is the economic or the non-economic factors that have a greater impact on empowering women. Using household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779735
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The Effects of Relaxing the One-Child Policy
Jia, Ning; Lugauer, Steven; Ni, Jinlan; Yin, Zhichao - 2021
This paper examines the early effects of dismantling the one-child (fertility) policy, which China relaxed in 2013 and eliminated prior to 2017. Birth rates, female labor force participation, and saving behavior have already changed. Between 2015 and 2017, the proportion of households with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241694