THE EFFECT OF SAVINGS ACCOUNTS ON INTERPERSONAL FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS: EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT IN RURAL KENYA

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dupas, Pascaline; Keats, Anthony; Robinson, Jonathan
• 署名单位: Wesleyan University; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12553
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 273-310
• 关键词: access; POOR; consumption; kinship

摘要

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 neighbours and friends within their village. Within households, we randomised which spouse was offered an account and find no evidence of negative spillovers.