The Persistent Power of Behavioural Change: Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor
The Persistent Power of Behavioural Change: Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor
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I use a field experiment in rural Kenya to study how temporary incentives to save impact long-run economic outcomes. Study participants randomly selected to receive large temporary interest rates on an individual bank account had significantly more income and assets 2.5 years after the interest rates expired. These changes are much larger than the short-run impacts on experimental bank account use and almost entirely driven by growth in entrepreneurship. Temporary interest rates directed to joint bank accounts had no detectable long-run impacts on entrepreneurship or income, but increased investment in household public goods and spousal consensus over finances.