Earmarking and Partitioning: Increasing Saving by Low-Income Households

By Dilip Soman, Amar Cheema. 2011

155 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3ffa220d722bb64935268b4b1d0529872fee4c14

Citations in the corpus

• Striving for balance in economics : towards a theory of the social determination of behavior (2016, unknown): “It is also consistent with the results of a field experiment in India that seemingly inconsequential actions—earmarking a portion of weekly earnings for savings by putting it into a separate envelope, and partitioning the earmarked funds into two envelopes—increased savings (Soman and Cheema, 2011).”
• A User's Guide to Debiasing (2014, unknown): “For example, interrupting the consumption of food (e.g., by partitioning the same quantity into several separate containers rather than one container) can reduce mindless eating (Cheema & Soman, 2008), and partitioning cash wages into multiple envelopes can increase saving (Soman & Cheema, 2011).”