Savings Defaults and Payment Delays for Cash Transfers : Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Savings Defaults and Payment Delays for Cash Transfers : Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Financial products and transfer schemes are often designed to help individuals improve welfare by following through on intertemporal plans. This paper implements an artefactual field experiment in Malawi to test the ability of households to manage...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brune, Lasse, Gine, Xavier, Goldberg, Jessica, Yang, Dean
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
financial literacy
banking
financial capability
household expenditure
budget management
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26741210/savings-defaults-payment-delays-cash-transfers-field-experimental-evidence-malawi
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25052

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26741210/savings-defaults-payment-delays-cash-transfers-field-experimental-evidence-malawi
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25052

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