Studies

Cost and Convenience: The Impact of ATM Card Provision on Formal Savings Account Use in Kenya
Simone Schaner / Kenya / 2010
Debt Cycles
Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan / 2010
Savings constraints and preventative health investments in Kenya
Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson / Kenya / 2010
Abhijit Banerjee, Sendhil Mullainathan / Global / 2010

An application of behavioral economics theory, in particular in relation to temptation and discount rates, and its interaction with poverty.

Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson / Kenya / 2010
Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, Jonathan Robinson / Kenya / 2009

A paper investigating the optimal levels of fertilizer subsidies. The paper "suggests such small, time-limited discounts yield higher welfare than either laissez faire or heavy subsidies by helping present-biased farmers commit to fertilizer use without inducing those with standard preferences to substantially overuse fertilizer."

Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven / Bangladesh, India, South Africa / 2009

Using financial diaries, the authors illuminate savings behavior among the poor.

Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, Jonathan Robinson / Kenya / 2008

From the abstract: "Beginning in July 2000, a series of six field trials over three years were designed to ascertain the profitability of fertilizer on farms in Busia District, a relatively poor rural district in Western Kenya."

Kathleen D. Vohs, Ronald J. Faber / USA / 2007

From the abstract: "This research investigated impulse buying as resulting from the depletion of a common

Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, Jonathan Robinson / Kenya / 2007

From the abstract: "This paper reports on randomized field experiments set up to investigate various reasons for the low usage of fertilizer in Western Kenya."