Title: The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya

Type Dataset Dupas, Pascaline, Keats, Anthony, Robinson, Jonathan (2017): The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/WBD2QD

Authors: Dupas, Pascaline (Stanford University) ; Keats, Anthony (Wesleyan University) ; Robinson, Jonathan (University of California, Santa Cruz) ; Dupas, Pascaline (Stanford University) ; Keats, Anthony (Wesleyan University) ; Robinson, Jonathan (University of California, Santa Cruz) ;

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Summary

The welfare impact of expanding access to bank accounts depends on whether accounts crowd out pre-existing financial relationships, or whether private gains from accounts are shared within social networks. In this experiment, we provided free bank accounts to a random subset of 885 households. Across households, we document positive spillovers: treatment households become less reliant on grown children and siblings living outside their village, and become more supportive of neighbors and friends within their village. Within households, we randomized which spouse was offered an account and find no evidence of negative spillovers.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/WBD2QD

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2017
• Submitted: October 02, 2017
• Updated: April 01, 2020

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

Format

electronic resource

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