Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda

Dean Karlan, Leigh L. Linden

NBER Working Paper No. 19863
Issued in January 2014, Revised in April 2016

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We are grateful for the assistance of a number of individuals and organizations without whom this project could not have been successfully completed. Caton Brewster, Carl Brinton, Sarah Kabay, Sana Khan, Selvan Kumar, Doug Parkerson, Pia Raffler, Elana Safran and Glynis Startz from Innovations for Poverty Action all provided valuable assistance with the research or project management. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Yale Savings and Payments Research Fund at Innovations for Poverty Action, sponsored by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The United States Agency for International Development (Development Innovations Venture Award AID-OAA-G-12-00008) generously provided additional funding for the project. All opinions are those of the authors, and not necessarily that of any of the funders or collaborating institutions, nor of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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