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    High Hopes: experimental evidence on saving and the transition to high school in Kenya

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    Jack, William
    Habyarimana, James
    Abstract
    We report results of a randomized control trial in which parents of primary school leavers were encouraged to open a convenient bank account operated over a mobile money platform. A lock savings account (LSA) was randomly promoted to half the treatment group. Treatment boosted account take-up by 25 percentage points. Intent-to-treat estimates show that being offered either account increased savings on the mobile phone. Total financial savings increased by 3-4 times, suggesting access to the mobile bank account crowded in other forms of savings. High school enrollment was 5-6 percentage points higher – representing a one third increase for compliers.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1048254
    Date Published
    2018-01-23
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    All rights reserved by the author. Please contact gui2de@georgetown.edu for information about permissions.
    Subject
    Africa; Kenya; poverty; savings; education; randomized controlled trial;
    Type
    Working Paper
    Publisher
    Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation
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