We experimentally test the impact of expanding access to basic bank accounts in Uganda, Malawi, and Chile. Over two … 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 …

This paper explores the qualitative and quantitative implications of taxation for growth and savings in three Latin … American countries: Brazil, Chile and Mexico, studying a small open economy in the context of an endogenous growth model where … labor taxes should be lower than actual taxes in Brazil and Chile. However, while sub-optimal taxes seem to imply lower long …

increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile. The … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical …