TY  - JOUR
AU  - Banerjee, Abhijit
AU  - Karlan, Dean
AU  - Osei, Robert Darko
AU  - Trachtman, Hannah
AU  - Udry, Christopher
TI  - Unpacking a Multi-Faceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 24271
PY  - 2018
Y2  - February 2018
DO  - 10.3386/w24271
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w24271
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w24271.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Abhijit Banerjee
Department of Economics, E52-540
MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617/253-8855
Fax: 617/253-1330
E-Mail: banerjee@mit.edu

Dean Karlan
Kellogg Global Hub
Northwestern University
2211 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Tel: 847/491-8706
E-Mail: dean.karlan@gmail.com

Robert Darko Osei
ISSER
E-Mail: rdosei@isser.edu.gh

Hannah Trachtman
Department of Economics
Yale University
PO Box 208268
New Haven, CT 06511
E-Mail: htrachtm@gmail.com

Christopher R. Udry
Northwestern University
Department of Economics
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
2211 Campus Drive #3247
Evanston, IL 60208
Tel: 203/432-3637
E-Mail: christopher.udry@northwestern.edu
AB  - A multi-faceted program comprising a grant of productive assets, training, coaching, and savings has been found to build sustainable income for those in extreme poverty. We focus on two important questions: whether a mere grant of productive assets would generate similar impacts (it does not), and whether access to a savings account and a deposit collection service would generate similar impacts (it does not).
ER  -