What are the headwaters of formal savings? Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

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 highfrequency panel survey spanning two and a half years with an experiment in which a Sri Lankan bank used mobile Point-o...

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Main Authors: De Mel, S, Callen, M, McIntosh, C, Woodruff, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019