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Under-savers anonymous: Evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer groups are an alternative commitment device that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282613
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Under-savers anonymous : evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer groups are an alternative commitment device that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530133
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Under-savers anonymous : evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486065
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Under-savers anonymous : evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665967
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Saving more in groups : field experimental evidence from Chile
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - In: Journal of development economics 133 (2018), pp. 275-294
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983502
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Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer groups are an alternative commitment device that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646295
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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe - 2012
We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460243
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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe - 2012
While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer groups are an alternative commitment device that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110869
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Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Meier, Stephan; Kast, Felipe; Pomeranz, Dina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821682
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Do savings constraints lead to indebtedness? : experimental evidence from access to formal savings accounts in Chile
Kast, Felipe; Pomeranz, Dina - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009770249