Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block
By Esther Duflo, William G. Gale, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Peter R. Orszag, Emmanuel Saez. 2006
333 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies
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In Accounting
- Wei Jiang
- Richard H. Thaler
- Gur Huberman
- Stefano DellaVigna
- Shlomo Benartzi
- Sheena Iyengar
- John Beshears
- Michael Sherraden
In Economics and Econometrics
- Stefano DellaVigna
- Richard H. Thaler
- John A. List
- Imran Rasul
- Wei Jiang
- Sheena Iyengar
- Gur Huberman
- Shlomo Benartzi
In Gender Studies
- Stefano DellaVigna
- Richard H. Thaler
- Shlomo Benartzi
- John A. List
- Imran Rasul
- R. Levine
- Kenneth T. Gillingham
- Youngmi Kim
Citations in the corpus
- Should Governments Invest More in Nudging? (2017, positive): “Duflo et al. (2006) also calculated the effect of tax credits on retirement account contributions, but we focus on the results from a companion paper (Duflo, Gale, Liebman, Orszag, & Saez, 2007) devoted specifically to studying these tax credits.”
- Field experiments in labor economics (2010, background): “A few recent notable examples of this type of work are the studies such as Kremer et al. (2004) and Duflo et al. (2006).”
- Do Child Development Accounts Promote Account Holding, Saving, and Asset Accumulation for Children's Future? Evidence from a Statewide Randomized Experiment. (2013, methodology): “Duflo et al. (2006) tested a saving match program in an experiment at H&R Block’s tax preparers’ offices.”
- Bridging the Energy Efficiency Gap: Policy Insights from Economic Theory and Empirical Evidence (2014, positive): “Bernatzi and Thaler (2002) and Duflo et al. (2006) show that presentation format can substantially affect choices by focusing attention on different subsets of the information being presented.”
- Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan (2018, neutral): “While prior research examines the effect of matching incentives on savings (Duflo et al. 2006; Engelhardt and Kumar 2007), and more recent work indicates that savings programs incorporating default contributions are more likely to increase participation than monetary incentives alone (Chetty et al.…”
- Heuristics and Biases in Retirement Savings Behavior (2007, positive): “3 Duflo et al. (2005) find a similar unexploited arbitrage opportunity in the context of tax filers eligible for the savers tax credit.”
- Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients (2009, neutral): “Hotz and Scholz (2003) and Eissa and Hoynes (2006) provide comprehensive surveys.”