Why Don’t the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments.

By P. Dupas, Jonathan Robinson. The American Economic Review, 2013

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Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence (2017, background): “There is mixed evidence with regard to whether commitment features of savings accounts – which restrict access to funds until a certain date or goal is achieved – are a possible mechanism (Brune et al., 2015, Dupas and Robinson, 2013b, Karlan et al., 2014a).”
Banking on Trust: How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More (2017, background): “Third, money saved at home could be in demand from friends and relatives (Baland, Guirkinger, and Mali, 2011; Dupas and Robinson, 2013b; Jakiela and Ozier, 2016).”
Building financial resilience through financial and digital literacy in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (2020, unknown): “…low-cost liquid savings accounts can allow individuals to self-insure by building a savings cushion that can smooth consumption when a shock occurs (Dupas, Keats, & Robinson, 2017; Dupas & Robinson, 2013b; El-Zoghbi, Chehade, McConaghy, & Soursourian, 2017; Kast & Pomeranz, 2018; Prina, 2015).”
Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves (2013, unknown): “Grant Miller CHP/PCOR Stanford University”
The impact of digital finance on household consumption: Evidence from China (2020, background): “And the research by Karlan and Zinman (2010), and Dupas and Robinson (2013) indicated that the income and consumption of a person with low income would be increased if she sets up an account in a financial institution and used it frequently.”
Financial Inclusion and Economic Growth: The Role of Governance in Selected MENA Countries (2021, background): “…smoothing with significant welfare gains (see, for example, Jappelli and Pagano, 1989; Bacchetta and Gerlach, 1997; Ludvigson, 1999), and help in lowering income inequality by increasing the income of the poorest quintile (Beck et al., 2007), thus boosting savings (Dupas and Robinson, 2013).”
The (hidden) costs of political instability: Evidence from Kenya's 2007 election crisis☆ (2012, unknown): “9 As was already clear in Figures 2, 3 and 4, the election crisis had a sizeable e⁄ect on income for all three types of individuals.”
Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan (2018, unknown): “9 See Aker and Blumenstock (2014) for a review of recent literature, and GSMA (2017) for a comprehensive report on mobile money in developing countries.”
The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change: Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor (2018, unknown): “…including basic formal bank accounts (Dupas and Robinson 2013; Prina 2015), commitment savings accounts (Ashraf et al. 2006b; Brune et al. 2013; Dupas and Robinson 2014), savings accounts with reminders (Karlan et al. 2013), savings groups that leverage peer pressure and support (Kast et al.…”