Child Benefit Support and Method of Payment: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Belgium
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Social security payments; Method of payment; Financial exclusion; Psychology and economics; Behavioural economics; Cues;All these keywords.
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- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
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