We review the fast-growing work on salience and economic behavior. Psychological
research shows that salient stimuli attract human attention bottom up due to their high …

There is growing evidence that appropriate financial services have substantial benefits for
consumers, especially women and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial …

Financial inclusion has gone beyond the rhetoric surrounding social development and
financial stability, but also expanding into pathos of arbitrage benefits made from cheap …

Though perceived financial well-being is viewed as an important topic of consumer
research, the literature contains no accepted definition of this construct. Further, there has …

While financial inclusion is typically addressed by improving the financial infrastructure, we
show that a higher degree of financial literacy also has a clear beneficial effect. We study …

Purpose Several research models have been proposed in the existing literature to
understand the intention to use Islamic banking where conventional bank customers are not …

The adoption of mobile telephony to provide financial services in Africa has become
instrumental in integrating the hitherto unbanked segments of the population to the …

Causal evidence on microcredit impacts informs theory, practice, and debates about its
effectiveness as a development tool. The six randomized evaluations in this volume use a …

Behavioral development economics applies theories and ideas from psychology and
behavioral economics to the study of questions in development economics. We begin by …

We experimentally test the impact of expanding access to basic bank accounts in Uganda,
Malawi, and Chile. Over two years, 17, 10, and 3 percent of treatment individuals made five …