Carranza Noguera, Eliana; Donald, Aletheia; Grosset, Florian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In low-income communities, pressure to share income with others may disincentivize work, distorting labor supply. We … experiment, we enable piece-rate factory workers in Côte d'Ivoire to shield income using blocked savings accounts over 3-9 months …. Workers may only deposit earnings increases, relative to baseline, mitigating income effects on labor supply. We vary whether …