Plausibly Exogenous - Debit Cards (07/13/2021)
LHS Variable
Household savings
RHS Variable
Debit cards
Source of Exogenous Variation
Debit cards tied to existing savings accounts were rolled out geographically over time to beneficiaries of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program Oportunidades
- Bachas, Gertler, Higgins, and Seira (2021), “How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More”