BANKING THE POOR VIA SAVINGS ACCOUNTS: EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT ∗

By S. Prina. 2015

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence (2017, background): “…shocks, reallocated their expenditures (more spending on education and food; less on health and dowries), and reported that their overall financial situation improved even though the study could not document statistically significant increases in savings compared to the control group (Prina, 2015).”
ACHIEVING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (2016, background): “A study in Nepal found that when hit with health shocks, households with savings accounts suffered smaller income drops than households without savings accounts (Prina 2013).”
The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana (2018, positive): “We speculate that interventions that target a greater portion of students could result in larger effects, such as the those studied in Supanantaroek et al. (2016) and Bruhn et al.”
Does financial literacy improve financial inclusion? Cross country evidence (2018, positive): “Prina (2015) finds that providing zero cost bank accounts and prevalence of local banks increase take up of these bank accounts, but the author does not find an effect on asset accumulation.”
The Cost of Convenience? (2017, positive): “To date, most research has focused on either measuring the overall effect of giving individuals access to services (e.g. Dupas and Robinson 2013; Prina 2015; Kast and Pomeranz 2014) or on the effect of accounts (or account enhancements) meant to address intra-personal savings constraints like time i”
The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change: Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor (2018, background): “Researchers have evaluated the impacts of a range of savings products, including basic formal bank accounts (Dupas and Robinson 2013; Prina 2015), commitment savings accounts (Ashraf et al.”
The role of financial inclusion in driving women’s economic empowerment (2019, background): “Compared to those without accounts, women also had increased health-related expenditures, enabling households to better respond to health emergencies (Prina 2015).”
Financial literacy and savings decisions by adult financial consumers in Zimbabwe (2017, background): “Prina (2015) found that access to the bank account positively influenced household saving behaviour in Nepal.”
Building financial resilience through financial and digital literacy in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (2020, positive): “…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).”
Facilitating Savings for Agriculture: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi (2015, background): “Prina ð2015Þ finds that random assignment of basic savings account access to households in Nepal leads to increases in financial assets and in human capital investments.”
Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy and Economically Vulnerable Populations in the Middle East and North Africa (2019, background): “…levels are related to better financial inclusion, while others have found only modest or negligible effects (Bruhn, Ibarra, and McKenzie 2014; Cole, Sampson, and Zia 2011; Grohmann, Klühs, and Menkhoff 2017; Jamison, Karlan, and Zinman 2014; Kodongo 2018; Lyons, Grable, and Zeng 2017a; Prina 2015).”