Savings Defaults and Payment Delays for Cash Transfers : Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Financial products and transfer schemes are typically designed to improve welfare by helping individuals follow through on their intertemporal plans. We implement an artefactual field experiment in Malawi to test the ability of households to manage a cash windfall by varying whether 474 households r...

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Main Authors: Brune, Lasse, Giné, Xavier, Goldberg, Jessica, Yang, Dean
Published: Elsevier 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29256