Financial Inclusion, Remittances and Entrepreneurship: an experiment in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico



Título del documento: Financial Inclusion, Remittances and Entrepreneurship: an experiment in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico
Revista: Paradigma económico
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Número de sistema: 000530648
ISSN: 2007-3062
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Instituciones: 1Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Centro de Investigación e Inteligencia Económicas, Puebla. México
2Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala. México
3El Colegio de Tlaxcala, San Pablo Apetatitlán, Tlaxcala. México
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Volumen: 13
Número: 3
Paginación: 56-89
País: México
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, descriptivo
Resumen en español This paper presents a Randomized Control Treatment (RCT) thatconsisted in providing smartphones, training in business skills andfinancial education to individuals in the State of Tlaxcala, Mexico tostudy its impact on measures of Financial Inclusion and other householdoutcomes in the period 2011-14. The results show statisticallysignificant effects in measures of usage and quality, but not in measuresof depth or stability of financial services. The results also show positiveeffects on micro business activities and wealth, but no effects onhousehold income and expenditures. All effects are found to be smallerfor households that receive remittances. These results show that, in thepresence of low-cost financial services, households prefer to investtheir savings in micro business activities or real assets and confirm thathouseholds that receive remittances relax their credit constraints.
Disciplinas: Economía
Palabras clave: Financial Inclusion,
Random Control Trials
Keyword: Household Demand for Financial Services
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