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● projectCompleted · subnational · 2017
Fundación Capital's LISTA (tablet-based financial education) with Prospera beneficiaries
Digital financial education solution on tablets that work without internet, so that low-income people (mostly women receiving cash transfers) can learn to save, budget and use financial products without a classroom.
illustrative atlas image · Julia Volk / PexelsFCFundación CapitalGDGobierno de México - Coordinación Nacional de Prospera / SedesolMBMatthew BirdOAOrazio Attanasio
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01 The context
In Mexico, Fundación Capital implemented LISTA / LISTA+ with Prospera beneficiaries: a pilot started in January 2017 (Huamantla, Tulancingo, Querétaro, Puebla) with ~1,480 users, and LISTA+ later scaled to more than 75,000 households with USAID funding. A Mexican adaptation of a model proven by RCT.
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 2 ›
EvidenceLISTA Exceeds its Objectives in MexicoFundación Capital (Medium) · 2017
EvidenceFreeing Financial Education via Tablets: Experimental Evidence from ColombiaNBER Working Paper 25929 (Attanasio, Bird, Cardona-Sosa, Lavado) · 2019