Tying odysseus to the mast: Evidence from a commitment savings product in the philippines

By Nava Ashaf, Dean S. Karlan, Wesley Yin. 2006

1,666 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b7837ea6ec07f5faa5437c24117aed6ad4391e17

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Accounting

In Economics and Econometrics

In General Decision Sciences

Citations in the corpus

Expanding credit access: Using randomized supply decisions to estimate the impacts (2006, background): “23 For evidence from prior studies see Pitt, Khandker, and Cartwright (2003a) on credit program participation, and Ashraf, Karlan, and Yin (2006a) on a commitment savings product.”
The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change: Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor (2018, neutral): “…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. 2006b; Brune et al. 2013; Dupas and Robinson 2014), savings accounts with reminders (Karlan et al. 2013), savings groups that leverage…”
Bank concentration, competition, and financial inclusion (2018, neutral): “, Ashraf et al. (2006b), Collins et al. (2009)). For example, Collins et al. (2009) study the financial lives of poor households and find a common pattern of intensive use of saving instruments but relatively small average balances.”
Field Experiments in Economics: the Past, the Present, and the Future (2008, neutral): “21 Consequently , we do not provide a full treatment of a number of other interesting papers in this area such as Ashraf et al ( 2006 ) , which explores savings commitment devices , Karlan and Zinman ' s ( 2008 ) exploration of the benefits of extending consumer credit , even at high interest rates…”
Banking the Unbanked: Evidence from Three Countries - Working Paper 440 (2016, background): “[2] Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin (2006a).”
Future Lock-In: Future Implementation Increases Selection of 'Should' Choices (2008, background): “A few examples include saving money through the use of non-interest bearing lock-boxes that prevent a person from consuming her ‘saved’ money (Ashraf & Karlan & Yin, 2006), scheduling deadlines for required papers so that they are evenly spaced throughout a semester rather than all due at the end…”
Social Networks, Reputation, and Commitment: Evidence From a Savings Monitors Experiment (2019, background): “The desire to save is widespread, but many are unable due to lack of access, lack of commitment, or lack of attention (Ashraf et al. (2006), Brune et al. (2013), Karlan et al. (2010), Thaler and Benartzi (2004), and Beshears et al. (2011), for example).”