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What Are the Headwaters of Formal Savings? Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

What Are the Headwaters of Formal Savings? Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

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What Are the Headwaters of Formal Savings? Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

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Full title

What Are the Headwaters of Formal Savings? Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal title

The Review of economic studies, 2019-11, Vol.86 (6 (311)), p.2491-2529

Language

English

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Oxford University Press

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Contents

The world’s poor are seeing a rapid expansion in access to formal savings accounts. What is the source of savings when households are connected to a formal account? We combine a high-frequency panel survey spanning two and a half years with an experiment in which a Sri Lankan bank used mobile Point-of-Service (POS) terminals to collect deposits dir...

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What Are the Headwaters of Formal Savings? Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1093_restud_rdz020

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1093_restud_rdz020

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ISSN

0034-6527

E-ISSN

1467-937X

DOI

10.1093/restud/rdz020

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