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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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
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title_sub A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi
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