Commitments to Save A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi
This paper reports the results of a field experiment that randomly assigned smallholder cash crop farmers formal savings accounts. In collaboration with a microfinance institution in Malawi, the authors tested two primary treatments, offering either: 1) "ordinary" accounts, or 2) both ordi...
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spellingShingle | Brune, Lasse Commitments to Save A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi |
title | Commitments to Save A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi |
title_auth | Commitments to Save A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi |
title_exact_search | Commitments to Save A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi |
title_full | Commitments to Save A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi Lasse Brune |
title_fullStr | Commitments to Save A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi Lasse Brune |
title_full_unstemmed | Commitments to Save A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi Lasse Brune |
title_short | Commitments to Save |
title_sort | commitments to save a field experiment in rural malawi |
title_sub | A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi |
url | https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-5748 |
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