Commitments to Save - Innovations for Poverty Action

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Malawi • Small, densely populated – Pop. 13.6 million • 90% of population works own smallholder farms • Main crops: – Maize (for food) – Tobacco (for export) • Low input utilization in agriculture – Especially: fertilizer 42
Measuring impacts • Outcomes in OIBM admin data and follow-up survey of farmers (July-Sep 2010) • Sample: ~1,450 farmers in ~160 farmer clubs – Randomly divided at start of study into 3 groups (control + 2 treatment groups) • Impacts of treatments on: – Deposits and withdrawals prior to planting season – Agricultural inputs applied during planting season – Access to funds during “hungry” season (preharvest) – Crop sales at harvest – Expenditures, post-harvest 43
Page 1 and 2: Commitments to Save: A Field Experi
Page 3 and 4: Raising Malawian agricultural produ
Page 5 and 6: Raising farm output with rural fina
Page 7 and 8: Vicious circles in input or credit
Page 9 and 10: Increased incomes via savings facil
Page 11 and 12: Why might farmers have trouble savi
Page 13 and 14: Why might farmers have trouble savi
Page 15 and 16: The agricultural cycle in Malawi Ra
Page 17 and 18: Key questions • What is the impac
Page 19 and 20: Related past work • Ashraf, Karla
Page 21 and 22: Two types of savings treatments 1.
Page 23 and 24: Project timing Baseline + offer of
Page 25 and 26: 40,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000
Page 27 and 28: 40,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000
Page 29 and 30: • Compared to control group, comm
Page 31 and 32: • As a result, weekly food expend
Page 33 and 34: • Commitment group withdraws more
Page 35 and 36: Balance revelation treatments • O
Page 37 and 38: Effect of public and private raffle
Page 39 and 40: External validity: some caveats •
Page 41: Extra slides 41
Page 45: Regression results: outcomes Impact

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