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Improving Financial Inclusion through Digital Savings and Credit

By Prashant Bharadwaj and Tavneet Suri

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

This paper examines the effects of promotions to increase participation in digital banking and improve financial inclusion. M-Shwari, Kenya's most popular digital banking platform, ran a promotion called Stawisha Na M-Shwari from mid-April 2016 to early J...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20201084

Migration, Money Transfers, and Mobile Money: Evidence from Niger

By Jenny C. Aker, Silvia Prina, and C. Jamilah Welch

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Mobile money can reduce the cost of sending remittances as compared with traditional money transfer systems. Despite remittances being a crucial part of the West African economy, mobile money is failing to take off. We use supply and demand data for money...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20201085

Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa

By Catia Batista and Pedro C. Vicente

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Who uses mobile money, and what do people do with it? This paper describes mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use administrative and household...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20201086

Cashing In (and Out): Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Mobile Money in Malawi

By Shilpa Aggarwal, Valentina Brailovskaya, and Jonathan Robinson

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

We present results from a randomized control trial on access to mobile money with 480 entrepreneurs in Malawi. Treated individuals received account opening assistance and basic training on mobile money and were encouraged to save. Withdrawal fees were wai...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20201087

Is Community-Based Targeting Effective in Identifying Intimate Partner Violence?

By Jorge M. Agüero, Úrsula Aldana, Erica Field, Veronica Frisancho, and Javier Romero

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

We measure the effectiveness of community-based targeting to identify victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural Peru. In 254 villages, we collected self-reported data on IPV via a DHS-style questionnaire and compared it to a listing of women eli...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20201046

Women Empowerment Programs and Intimate Partner Violence

By Manuela Angelucci and Rachel Heath

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Women empowerment programs may reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) by improving autonomy, increasing bargaining power, and reducing socioeconomic stress. Yet, this might not happen if partners increase violence to either control the woman's resources o...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20201047

Reducing Violence against Women in Uganda through Video Dramas: A Survey Experiment to Illuminate Causal Mechanisms

By Jasper Cooper, Donald P. Green, and Anna M. Wilke

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

A randomized trial was conducted in rural Uganda in which 112 villages were exposed to video dramatizations about violence against women (VAW) or placebo topics. The treatment videos encouraged viewers to report VAW. Eight months later, surveys showed inc...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20201048

Spousal Disagreement in Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya

By Johannes Haushofer, Charlotte Ringdal, Jeremy Shapiro, and Xiao Yu Wang

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

We investigate differences in spousal reports of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women and men using a sample of 800 couples in rural Kenya. We find that up to one-third of couples disagree but that disagreement varies by violence type and victim'...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20201049