How Cutting the Cost of Using a Bank Affects Household’s Behavior of Remittance Transfers: Evidence From a Field Experiment in Rural Malawi
Using a randomized experiment in rural Malawi, this paper finds that providing information on mobile bank buses’ services leads to a higher probability of adopting savings accounts in the treatment group. Households in the treated villages are 3.06 percentage points more likely to adopt savings acco...
Main Author: | Lu, Chuyuan |
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Format: | Others |
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Scholarship @ Claremont
2016
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Online Access: | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1372 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2431&context=cmc_theses |
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