Paper published in Review of Economics and Statistics
A paper, co-authored by lab Director Blumenstock (with Michael Callen, Tarek Ghani, and Robert Gonzalez), was published in the journal, Review of Economics and Statistics. Read it here: https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article/106/2/352/108828/Violence-and-Financial-Decisions-Evidence-from Violence and Financial Decisions: Evidence from Mobile Money in Afghanistan Abstract... Read More →
Paper published in American Economic Review
Abstract We report on an experiment examining why default options impact behavior. By randomly assigning employees to different varieties of a salary-linked savings account, we find that default enrollment increases participation by 40 percentage points—an effect equivalent to providing a... Read More →