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SUBMITTER: Wang JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6092028 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Julia Shu-Huah JS Ssewamala Fred M FM Neilands Torsten B TB Bermudez Laura Gauer LG Garfinkel Irwin I Waldfogel Jane J Brooks-Gunn Jeannie J You Jing J
Journal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management] 20180529 3
The use of savings products to promote financial inclusion has increasingly become a policy priority across sub-Saharan Africa, yet little is known about how families respond to varying levels of savings incentives and whether the promotion of incentivized savings in low-resource settings may encourage households to restrict expenditures on basic needs. Using data from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda, we examine: 1) whether low-income households enrolled in an economic-empowerment interv ...[more]