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Commitments to Save - Innovations for Poverty Action

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Balance revelation treatments<br />

• Other additional treatments, randomized at the outset<br />

as well, test impact of revealing one’s account balances<br />

<strong>to</strong> others in the village<br />

• For these additional treatments, we held a raffle<br />

drawing where each farmer would get 1 raffle ticket per<br />

MK1000 saved as of certain dates (Aug and Oct 2009)<br />

– Farmers know of this at outset<br />

• In these treatments, we randomly varied whether an<br />

individual’s number of raffle tickets were announced…<br />

– in public (in front of other group members)<br />

– in private (out of sight of other group members)<br />

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