Match Rates and Savings: Evidence from Individual Development Accounts
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Keywords
Savings incentives; asset accumulation; match rates; retirement; income effect; substitution effect;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MFD-2001-09-10 (Microfinance)
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