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Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines.

Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines.

Published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (May 2006) by researchers at Harvard Business School, Yale University, and the University of Chicago, the article assesses the outcomes of a study testing a commitment savings product for a Philippine bank.