Effectiveness of free financial education provided by for-profit financial institutions: Experimental evidence from rural Peru
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Keywords
Financial Education; Financial Institutions; Savings; Rural Microfinance; Impact Evaluation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G53 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Financial Literacy
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
- D04 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Policy: Formulation; Implementation; Evaluation
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics
- R51 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Finance in Urban and Rural Economies
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