Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend IPA‘s second annual Researcher Gathering on Advancing Financial Inclusion at Yale University. My friend and collaborator Lasse Brune presented the proposed research design for a study we are planning with Eric Chyn on using deferred wages as a savings technology in Malawi. Our project expands builds on an earlier paper by myself and Lasse that shows that demand for deferred wages is quite high and that there are potentially-large benefits.
The conference featured lots of great talks, but I particularly liked the one Emily Breza gave. She was presenting early results from a paper called “Measuring the Average Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis” that she is writing with Cynthia Kinnan. (Here is a link to an older version of the paper.) One of the major results of the RCT revolution in development economics is a…
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