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Publikováno v:
Management Science. 68:3282-3308
This paper studies the adoption and impact of prize-linked savings (PLS) accounts, which offer random, lottery-like payouts to individual account holders in lieu of interest. Using micro-level data from a bank offering these products in South Africa,
Autor:
Silvana Tenreyo, Shawn Cole
Publikováno v:
IMF Economic Review
Global economic growth and economic integration suffered major setbacks in 2020-21 owing to the Coronavirus crisis and the huge strains it put on people, companies and governments all around the world. Greater integration of women into the labor forc
Autor:
Shawn Cole, A. Nilesh Fernando
Publikováno v:
The Economic Journal. 131:192-219
Mobile phones promise to bring the ICT revolution to previously unconnected populations. A two-year study evaluates an innovative voice-based ICT advisory service for smallholder cotton farmers in India, demonstrating significant demand for, and trus
Publikováno v:
The World Bank Economic Review. 35:745-763
This paper tests experiential learning as a debiasing tool to reduce gambling in South Africa, through a randomized field experiment. The study implements a simple, interactive game that simulates the odds of winning the national lottery through dice
Publikováno v:
The ABCs of Financial Education: Experimental Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases
Management science
Management science
This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive constraints that can stymie the link between financial education and financial outcomes. The study complements financial education with (i) financ
Publikováno v:
Business History Review. 93:127-148
This article examines key barriers to business sustainability discussed at a multidisciplinary conference held at the Harvard Business School in 2018. Drawing on perspectives from both the historical and business literatures, speakers debated the his
Autor:
Shawn Cole, Josh Lerner, T. Robert Zochowski, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie A. Jeng, M. Diane Burton, Fanele Mashwama, Yue (Cynthia) Xu
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Impact investing has grown significantly over the past 15 years. From a niche investing segment with only $25 billion AUM in 2013 (WEF 2013), it experienced double-digit growth and developed into a market with an estimated $502 billion AUM (Mudaliapa
The Handbook on Using Administrative Data for Research and Evidence-based Policy offers guidance for researchers, data providers, and decision-makers who would like to use administrative data to inform policy. Administrative data has the potential to
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https://doi.org/10.31485/admindatahandbook.1.0
https://doi.org/10.31485/admindatahandbook.1.0
Autor:
Wentao Xiong, Shawn Cole
Publikováno v:
Annual Review of Economics. 9:235-262
This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI) in developing countries. Agricultural producers face a variety of significant risks; historically, only government-subsidized products have achieved widespread adoption.