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● projectScaled · national · 2012
LISTA: digital financial education on tablets (Fundación Capital) in Colombia
Tablet-based financial education application designed by Fundación Capital for recipients of conditional cash transfers (mostly low-income women).
illustrative atlas image · Ksenia Chernaya / PexelsFCFundación CapitalDPDepartamento para la Prosperidad Social (DPS)MBMatthew BirdOAOrazio Attanasio
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01 The context
It helps organize savings, expenses and debts via videos, ATM simulators, budgeting and financial games; it works even for those who cannot read or write. It replaces expensive, hard-to-scale in-person trainings.
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 1 ›
EvidenceFreeing Financial Education via Tablets: Experimental Evidence from ColombiaNBER Working Paper 25929 (Attanasio, Bird, Cardona-Sosa, Lavado) · 2019