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Randomization for Causality, Ethnography for Mechanisms: Illiquid Savings for Liquor in an Autarkic Society / Ricardo Godoy, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Godoy, Ricardo.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29566.
- NBER working paper series no. w29566
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- What should researchers do when confronted with surprising results? Financial access innovations usually leave "temptation" spending unaffected or reduced. However, we found that promotion of savings lockboxes in a largely autarkic society increased alcohol consumption and blood pressure, despite no one reporting intentions to save for alcohol. To probe mechanisms that could explain this pattern, we then used ethnographic methods, including direct observations of drinking ("scans") and debriefing interviews to discuss the earlier trial results. We learn that sponsoring drinks confers prestige, but the stigma attached to drinking by outsiders likely discouraged reporting intentions to save for it.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2021.
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