Savings in transnational households: a field experiment among migrants from El Salvador

We implemented a randomized field experiment that tested ways to stimulate migrants’ savings in their origin country. We find that migrants value opportunities to exert greater control over financial activities in their home countries. We offered U.S.-based migrants bank accounts in El Salvador, ran...

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Autores Principales: Ashraf, Nava, Aycinena, Diego, Martinez A, Claudia, Yang, Dean
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: The MIT Press Journal 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/26920
https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00462