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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Elsevier
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29256 |