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Torres, Carlos; Ogbu-Nwobodo, Lucy; Alsan, Marcella; Stanford, Fatima Cody; Banerjee, Abhijit; Breza, Emily; Chandrasekhar, Arun G.; Eichmeyer, Sarah; Karnani, Mohit; Loisel, Tristan; Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul; Olken, Benjamin A.; Vautrey, Pierre-Luc; Warner, Erica; Duflo, Esther (2021-07-14).
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in 30 Indian villages to show that assigning community monitors to track savings behavior of households increases their effective savings rates by 36%.
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and other preventative health behaviors. In a paper in
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