Absent vaccines and pharmaceutical interventions, the only tool available to mitigate its
demographic effects is some measure of physical distancing, to reduce contagion by …

There is growing evidence that appropriate financial services have substantial benefits for
consumers, especially women and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial …

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an inevitable surge in the use of digital technologies due
to the social distancing norms and nationwide lockdowns. People and organizations all over …

Although theory suggests that financial market imperfections–mainly information
asymmetries, market segmentation and transaction costs–prevent poor people from …

While financial inclusion is typically addressed by improving the financial infrastructure, we
show that a higher degree of financial literacy also has a clear beneficial effect. We study …

We use a randomized controlled trial to study the response of poor households in rural
Kenya to unconditional cash transfers from the NGO GiveDirectly. The transfers differ from …

School closures occurred extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic, and occur in other
settings, such as teacher strikes and natural disasters. The cost of school closures has …

Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence
norms around gender roles? We randomly varied whether rural Indian women received …

Mobile money innovations are expanding rapidly in developing countries, where they
appear to be on track to extend financial services to billions of unbanked populations …

Industry 4.0 technologies, designed to optimize efficiencies, are indisputable change agents
for sustainability. In the context of financial technology (FinTech), the burgeoning question …