Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

Dean Karlan
Dean Karlan
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Department of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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Margaret McConnell
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Margaret McConnell
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Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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Sendhil Mullainathan
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Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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Jonathan Zinman
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Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
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Dean Karlan

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Department of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

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Margaret McConnell

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Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

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Sendhil Mullainathan

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Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

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