The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural KenyaPascaline Dupas, Anthony Keats, Jonathan Robinson
NBER Working Paper No. 21339 The welfare impact of expanding access to bank accounts depends on whether accounts crowd out pre-existing financial relationships, or whether private gains from accounts are shared within social networks. To study the effect of accounts on financial linkages, we provided free bank accounts to a random subset of 885 households. Within households, we randomized which spouse was offered an account and find no evidence of negative spillovers to spouses. Across households, we document positive spillovers: treatment households become less reliant on grown children and siblings living outside their village, and become more supportive of neighbors and friends within their village.
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