Payment Mechanisms and Antipoverty Programs: Evidence from a Mobile Money Cash Transfer Experiment in Niger

By Jenny C. Aker, Rachid Boumnijel, A. Mcclelland, Niall Tierney. Economic development and cultural change, 2016

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research

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In Gender Studies

1. Benjamin A. Olken
2. Theres Klühs
3. J. Aron
4. Sarah Hendriks
5. Paul J. Gertler
6. Rohini Pande
7. Frederico Finan
8. Antonia Grohmann

In Nutrition and Dietetics

1. Paul J. Gertler
2. Benjamin A. Olken
3. Rohini Pande
4. Frederico Finan

In Safety Research

1. Benjamin A. Olken
2. J. Aron
3. Sarah Hendriks
4. Paul J. Gertler
5. S. Higgins
6. Rohini Pande
7. Frederico Finan
8. Lukas Menkhoff

Citations in the corpus

• Does financial literacy improve financial inclusion? Cross country evidence (2018, positive): “For example, Aker et al. (2016) find significant effects of digitized transfers on”
• The role of financial inclusion in driving women’s economic empowerment (2019, background): “…Philip-pines, the opening of a goal-based commitment account increased savings by 81% and resulted in greater bargaining power for women within the household, increased expenditure on female-oriented consumer durables, and were particularly attractive to less empowered women (Ashraf et al. 2006).”
• Banking on Trust: How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More (2017, background): “…and South Africa, in which cash transfers are also paid through bank or mobile money accounts and recipients generally withdraw the entire transfer amount in one lump sum withdrawal each pay period (Bold, Porteous, and Rotman, 2012; Aker et al., 2016; Muralidharan, Niehaus, and Sukhtankar, 2016).”
• THE SHORT-TERM IMPACT OF UNCONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS TO THE POOR: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM KENYA (2016, neutral): “The significant effect on the food security index reflects these findings (Aker et al. 2016).”
• Chapter 6 – The Personnel Economics of the Developing State (2017, methodology): “Aker et al. (2014) use data from a randomized experiment of a mobile money cash transfer program in Niger and find evidence of benefits of this new system: Households receiving mobile transfers had higher diet diversity and children consumed more meals per day.”
• The Personnel Economics of the State (2015, methodology): “Aker et al. (2014) use data from a randomized experiment of a mobile money cash transfer program in Niger, and find evidence of benefits of this new system: Households receiving mobile transfers had higher diet diversity and children consumed more meals per day.”
• Mobile Money and the Economy: A Review of the Evidence (2018, background): “The impressive RCT study on household welfare by Aker et al. (2016) finds improvements in household welfare after drought for the recipients of cash transfers through mobile money accounts in Niger, one of the poorest countries.”