For women workers in India, direct deposit is 'digital empowerment'

(Yale University) The study, published in the American Economic Review, found that a relatively simple intervention directed to poor women -- providing them access to their own bank accounts and direct deposit for their earnings from a federal workfare program, along with basic training on how to use local bank kiosks -- increased the amount they worked, both in the government program and for other employers.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news