Psychological characteristics and household savings behavior: The importance of accounting for latent heterogeneity

P Gerhard, JJ Gladstone, AOI Hoffmann - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2018 - Elsevier
We employ a finite mixture model with maximum likelihood (ML) estimation to analyze latent
heterogeneity in the relationship between psychological characteristics and household …

Using financial incentives to improve health service engagement and outcomes of adults experiencing homelessness: A scoping review of the literature

E Hollenberg, A Bani‐Fatemi, A Durbin… - Health & Social Care …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
People experiencing homelessness (PEH) have high rates of acute and chronic health
conditions, complex support needs and often face multiple barriers to accessing health …

Antecedents of savings behaviour among rural households: a holistic approach

MA Bhat, GD Gomero, ST Khan - FIIB Business Review, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The main purpose of this research is to empirically examine the antecedents of household
savings behaviour in the Metekele, Beneshangu Guzu state of Ethiopia. In this study, three …

Saving Behaviour: Factors That Affect Saving Decisions (Systematic Literature Review Approach)

BB Jumena, S Siaila, JR Widokarti - Jurnal Economic Resource, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Savings have an important role as alternative funding when the primary income is in trouble.
Previous research on saving behavior has been carried out fragmentary, which causes the …

[HTML][HTML] Linking savings behavior, confidence and individual feedback: A field experiment in Ethiopia

A Avdeenko, A Bohne, M Frölich - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in
rural Ethiopia. Increasing savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been …

Awareness of low self-control: Theory and evidence from a homeless shelter

E Incekara-Hafalir, S Linardi - Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
Survey measures of self-control provide a potential low-cost alternative to incentivized
elicitation. However, asking respondents to introspect on their self-control problems may …

A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Financial Incentives in Case Management for Homeless Adults With Mental Illness

N Kerman, R Nisenbaum, A Durbin… - Psychiatric …, 2023 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Financial incentives can facilitate behavior change and service engagement in
health care settings, but research on their use with adults experiencing homelessness is …

[HTML][HTML] Prize-linked savings games: Theory and experiment

P Jindapon, P Sujarittanonta, A Viriyavipart - Games and Economic …, 2022 - Elsevier
We introduce a game in which each player can allocate her endowment in a prize-linked
savings (PLS) account, which awards a fixed prize only to a randomly chosen winner. Like …

An enquiry into the contributions of microfinance institutions towards the development of small scale business in Nigeria

L Isola, E Omoluabi, A Victor, B Leke - Available at SSRN 2745988, 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper examined the impact of Microfinance Institutions' policies on the growth and
development of Small Scale Business in Nigeria for the period 2005 to 2012. Nine (9) …

Explaining poverty and business with network concepts analysis

E Semprebon, MCS Porsse, EC Gurak… - Business and Society …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Poverty observed from business in the academic field has evolved in some publications and
is characterized as a multidimensional phenomenon, having several theoretical strands that …