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'' that is lost if a savings target is not reached. We partner with a mobile network operator and an NGO in rural Tanzania to …We experimentally test the role of loss-aversion in savings decisions, framing interest as a lump-sum ``upfront bonus … study the savings behavior of 1,524 women receiving mobile-money-based cash transfers from the NGO. Participants were …
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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...
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behavior, For this purpose, we exploit a natural experiment stemming from the European Flood of August 2002, Combining micro … data with geo-coded flood maps allows us to analyze the causal impact of flood exposure on household savings within a …
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Using a dataset containing information for more than 39 million contracts and a quasi-experimental design provided by national matching contribution policy reform in Turkey, we study the effects of matching contributions on saving outcomes and determine heterogeneities in responses to matching...
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Using a dataset containing information for more than 39 million contracts and a quasi-experimental design provided by national matching contribution policy reform in Turkey, we study the effects of matching contributions on saving outcomes and determine heterogeneities in responses to matching...
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We describe the “evaluability bias”: the tendency to weight the importance of an attribute in proportion to its ease of evaluation. We propose that the evaluability bias influences decision making in the context of charitable giving: people tend to have a strong preference for charities with...
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of a natural experiment created by the European Flood of August 2002. Using micro data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel that we combine with geographic flood data, we compare the savings behavior of affected and non-affected individuals …
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of a natural experiment created by the European Flood of August 2002. Using micro data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel that we combine with geographic flood data, we compare the savings behavior of affected and non-affected individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023000