Paper published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Abstract: We provide empirical evidence on how insecurity affects firm behavior by linking data on deadly terrorist attacks in Afghanistan to geolocated data on corporate mobile phone activity. We first develop an approach to estimate the geographic footprint of firms... Read More →
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 →