The social meaning of mobile money: Earmarking reduces the willingness to spend in migrant households
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- Jean N. Lee & Jonathan Morduch & Saravana Ravindran & Abu S. Shonchoy, 2024. "The Social Meaning of Mobile Money: Earmarking Reduces the Willingness to Spend in Migrant Households," Working Papers 2402, Florida International University, Department of Economics.
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Keywords
Payment effect; Digital finance; Willingness to pay; Social meaning of money; Earmarks;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- G41 - Financial Economics - - Behavioral Finance - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making in Financial Markets
- G50 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - General
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
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