Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

By P. Dupas, Jonathan Robinson. 2009

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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).”
Financial Inclusion and Legal Discrimination Against Women: Evidence from Developing Countries (2013, background): “Field experiments find that providing access to personal savings instruments increases female empowerment (Ashraf et al., 2010) and consumption and productive investment of female entrepreneurs (Dupas and Robinson, 2009).”
Why Don’t the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments. (2013, neutral): “In other words, even if study participants knew about the social returns (which we do not think is the case, based on results in Dupas et al. 2012), this would bias our results downwards, as the private returns to a given product would be highest in the control group.”
The Cost of Convenience? (2017, neutral): “This finding has been observed in other areas ofKenya (Dupas andRobinson 2013, 2014),Malawi (Brune et al. 2016), India (Shapiro 2010), andMali (Dean and Sautmann 2014).”
Factors that Matter for Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Peru (2015, neutral): “, 2010) and consumption (Dupas and Robinson, 2009; Ashraf et al., 2010b).”
Temporary Migration and Endogenous Risk Sharing in Village India (2019, background): “See, e.g., Baland, Guirkinger, and Mali (2011), Bauer, Chytilová, and Morduch (2012), Dupas and Robinson (2013a, 2013b), and Jakiela and Ozier (2016).”
Financial inclusion and green economic efficiency: evidence from China (2021, background): “…services by all segments of the economy (Sarma and Pais 2011), which leads to higher savings, more productive investment, boosted consumption (Dupas and Robinson 2013), a robust deposit base for the banks, enhanced resource allocation (Babajide, Adegboye, and Omankhanlen 2015), and improved…”
Mobile financial services and financial inclusion: Is it a boon for savings mobilization? (2017, background): “Other recent empirical studies have also revealed that the poor families in the informal economies of developing countries actively manage their financial lives by engaging in precautionary and commitment savings (Dupas and Robinson 2013a, 2013b; Brune et al., 2011).”
Inferring Welfare Maximizing Treatment Assignment Under Budget Constraints (2012, neutral): “Savings held in a bank are perfectly liquid, and in our study area, access to formal financial services has been shown to be an important determinant of households’ ability to save and acquire lumpy durables (Dupas and Robinson, 2009).”
Access to Financial Services and the Financial Inclusion Agenda Around the World: A Cross-Country Analysis with a New Data Set (2011, neutral): “Recent empirical evidence using household data indicates that access to basic financial services such as savings, payments and credit can make a substantial positive difference in improving poor people’s lives (Caskey et al., 2006; Dupas and Robinson 2009).”
Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment: What Works? (2014, background): “In Western Kenya, women with access to savings accounts invested 45 percent more in their businesses and were less prone to sell business assets to address health emergencies (Dupas and Robinson 2009).”