The Cost of Convenience?

Abstract

Simone Schaner Simone Schaner is Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, JPAL, NBER, and BREAD. The author thanks Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Tavneet Suri for invaluable advice and feedback and Eric Edmonds, Dan Keniston, Ben Olken, Sandip Sukhtankar, and Rob Townsend for many useful comments. This project would not have been possible without the tireless assistance, hard work, and commitment of many employees of Family Bank, especially Victor Keriri Mwangi, Steve Mararo, and Michael Aswani Were.