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Publications<\/h2>

If you want a copy of any of these papers and they are behind a paywall, please email me!<\/p>\n

\u201cMobile Money\u201d<\/a>, with Jenny Aker, Catia Batista, Michael Callen, Tarek Ghani, William Jack, Leora Klapper, Emma Riley, Simone Schaner, and Sandip Sukhtankar, VoxDevLit<\/em>, 2 (2), February 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgricultural Technology in Africa<\/a>\u201d, with Chris Udry, Jenny C. Aker, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Markus Goldstein, Thomas Jayne, Jeremy Magruder, Hope Michelson, Meredith Startz, and Emilia Tjernstrom,\u00a0 VoxDevLit<\/em>, 5 (1), December 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgricultural Technology in Africa<\/a>\u201d, with Christopher Udry, Journal of Economic Perspectives<\/em>, 2022.<\/p>\n

\"Borrowing Requirements, Credit Access, and Adverse Selection: Evidence from Kenya<\/a>\", with William Jack, Michael Kremer and Joost de Laat, Review of Economic Studies<\/em>, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cFintech and Household Resilience to Shocks: Evidence from Digital Loans in Kenya<\/a>\u201d, with Prashant Bharadwaj and William Jack, Journal of Development Economics<\/em>, 2021, Vol. 153.<\/p>\n

\u201cDiversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization<\/a>\u201d, with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Pons, Journal of Public Economics<\/em>, 2021, Vol. 197.<\/p>\n

\u201cVoter Mobilization and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya<\/a>\u201d, with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Pons, Economic Journal<\/em>, 2021, Vol. 138, Issue 638: 2585-2612.<\/p>\n

\u201cImproving Financial Inclusion Through Digital Savings and Credit<\/a>\u201d, with Prashant Bharadwaj, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings<\/em>, 2020, Vol. 110: 584-588.<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversal Basic Income in Developing Countries<\/a>\u201d, with Abhijit Banerjee and Paul Niehaus, Annual Review of Economics<\/em>, 2019, Vol. 11: 959\u2013983.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is No Free House: Ethnic Patronage in a Kenyan Slum<\/a>\u201d, with Benjamin Marx and Thomas Stoker, American Economic Journal Applied Economics<\/em>, 2019, Vol. 11 (4): 26-30.<\/p>\n

\u201cMobile Money<\/a>\u201d, Annual Review of Economics<\/em>, 2017, Vol. 9.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Long-run Poverty and Gender Impacts of Mobile Money\u201d<\/a>, with William Jack.\u00a0Science, <\/em>2016, Vol. 354, No. 6317: 1288-1292.<\/p>\n

Press<\/span>: New York Times<\/a>, Wall Street Journal<\/a>,\u00a0MIT News<\/a>, Vox<\/a>, The Economist<\/a>, Washington Post<\/a>, NPR<\/a>, Fortune<\/a>, Popular Science<\/a>,\u00a0Reuters<\/a> (syndicated to Voice of America<\/a>, Relief Web<\/a>, Daily Mail<\/a>, All Africa<\/a>),\u00a0Wired<\/a>, Financial Express<\/a>, Press Trust of India<\/a>, India Today<\/a>, NDTV<\/a>, iAfrikan<\/a>, News BTC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cField Experiments in Developing Country Agriculture<\/a>\u201d, with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, Handbook of Field Experiments<\/em>, 2017, Vol. 1: 427-466.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking Microfinance More Effective<\/a>\u201d, with Dean Karlan, Rebecca Mann, Jake Kendall, Rohini Pande and Jonathan Zinman, Harvard Business Review<\/em>, October 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cRisk Sharing and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution<\/a>\u201d, with William Jack.\u00a0American Economic Review<\/em>, 2014, Vol. 104 (1): 183-223.<\/p>\n

Press<\/span>:\u00a0MIT News<\/a>; Wired;\u00a0Slate<\/a>;\u00a0Business Week<\/a>;\u00a0Voxeu<\/a>; The World.<\/p>\n

Blogs<\/span>:\u00a0Freakonomics<\/a>;\u00a0FTAlphaville<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Resources<\/span>:\u00a0Slide Deck (2010)<\/a>; \u201cThe Economics of M-PESA<\/a>\u201d;\u00a0Latest Data<\/a>;\u00a0Web Appendix<\/a><\/p>\n

Teaching slide deck<\/a>\u00a0for this paper<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Economics of Slums in the Developing World<\/a>\", with Benjamin Marx and Thomas Stoker. Journal of Economic Perspectives<\/em>, 2013, Vol. 27 (4): 187-210.<\/p>\n

Press<\/span>:\u00a0The Economist<\/a>;\u00a0The Atlantic Cities<\/a>;\u00a0Economist Blog<\/a>;\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cEndogenous Emergence of Credit Markets: Contracting in Response to a New Technology in Ghana<\/a>\u201d, with Rahul Deb.\u00a0Journal of Development Economics<\/em>, 2013, Vol. 101: 268-283.<\/p>\n

\"Transaction Networks: Evidence from Mobile Money in Kenya<\/a>\", with William Jack and Adam Ray.\u00a0American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings<\/em>, 2013, Vol. 103 (3): 356-361.<\/p>\n

\"Documenting the Birth of a Financial Economy<\/a>\", with William Jack, and Thomas Stoker. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>, 2012, June, Vol. 109 (26): 10257-10262.<\/p>\n

\u201cSelection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption<\/a>\u201d, Econometrica<\/em>, 2011, Vol. 79 (1): 159\u2013209.<\/p>\n

NBER Working Paper<\/a> #15346;\u00a0EGC working paper<\/a> version;\u00a0Web Appendix\u00a0Tables<\/a><\/p>\n

Teaching slide deck<\/a><\/p>\n

Data Documentation<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cPaths to Success: The Relationship Between Human Development and Economic Growth<\/a>\u201d, with Michael Boozer, Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart, World Development<\/em>, 2011, Vol. 39 (4): 506-522.<\/p>\n

\u201cMonetary Theory and Mobile Banking: Lessons from the Kenyan Experience<\/a>\u201d, with William Jack and Robert Townsend, Economic Quarterly<\/em>, 2010, Vol. 96 (1): 83-122.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PublicationsIf you want a copy of any of these papers and they are behind a paywall, please email me! \u201cMobile Money\u201d, with Jenny Aker, Catia Batista, Michael Callen, Tarek Ghani, William Jack, Leora Klapper, Emma Riley, Simone Schaner, and Sandip Sukhtankar, VoxDevLit, 2 (2), February 2023. \u201cAgricultural Technology in Africa\u201d, with Chris Udry, Jenny C. 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