We measure the social norms of sharing income with kin and neighbors in villages in Kenya. We find a plurality of norms … kin and neighbors. Whether income secrecy facilitates savings depends on the type of norm individuals uphold: stricter …

A large fraction of households have very little savings buffer and are therefore vulnerable to financial shocks. This … paper examines whether a social norm nudge can induce such households to save more. We ran a large-scale field experiment at … link to a personal web page where they can start or adjust an automatic savings plan. However, analyzing detailed bank data …

increases intended sav-ings. In line with this, we find in our field experiment that households whoare exposed to the social …A large fraction of households have very little savings buffer and are there-fore vulnerable to financial shocks. We … examine whether a social norm nudgecan stimulate such households to save more by running a small-scale survey ex-periment and …

We conducted a field experiment in Burkina Faso to investigate the impact of sharing obligations within kin networks on …

A popular empirical technique to measure norms uses coordination games to elicit what subjects in an experiment …

device in the form of a moneybox with a regular savings plan. In our randomized field experiment, we also provide …In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing … savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive effects on various outcomes such as …

device in the form of a moneybox with a regular savings plan. In our randomized field experiment, we also provide …In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing … savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive effects on various outcomes such as …