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Thursday, October 13, from 7am-4:30pm CDT
Financial Inclusion & Social Protection - Researchers will present and discuss early results and recent working papers on financial inclusion and social inclusion research, including new work on digital credit, wages & household finance, digital finance adoption, and more. All presenters will have 20 minutes to present and 10 minutes for questions.
Panels and schedule are subject to change leading up to the conference.
Agenda
7am-8:30am | Breakfast | Atrium
8:45am-9am | Introductions | 164 Auditorium
Dean Karlan & Jonathan Zinman
9:00am-10:00am | Digital Payments | 164 Auditorium
Karla Hernandez, "Can Financial Technology Improve Public Service Delivery and Integrate Beneficiaries into the Formal Financial System?"
Laura Alicia Aquino Arriaga, "The impact of banking agents on financial inclusion in Mexico"
9:00am-10:00am | Mental Accounting | 140 Brownfield Classroom
Anu Puthenmadathil Jose, "Spousal Control, Intra-Household Communication and Mental Accounting: Evidence from an Experiment with in India"
- Nick Swanson, "Budget Neglect in Consumption Smoothing: A Field Experiment on Seasonal Hunger"
10:00am-10:30am | Coffee | Lounge
10:30am-12:00pm | Gender Bias In Lending | 164 Auditorium
Claudia Ruiz Ortega, "Female Business Owners' Financial Inclusion"
Ketki Sheth, "Discrimination and Access to Capital: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia"
Rachel Cassidy, "Evening the Credit Score? Impact of Psychometric Loan Appraisal for Women Entrepreneurs"
10:30am-12:00pm | New Technology Adoption | 140 Brownfield Classroom
Sangheum Cho, "Learning Through Social Networks: How Workers Optimize the Use of Fintech for Remittances"
Sean Higgins, "Why Are Small Businesses Slow to Adopt Profitable Opportunities?"
12:00pm-1:00pm | Product Innovation in Microcredit | 164 Auditorium
Anett John, "Flexible Microcredit: Effects on Loan Repayment and Social Pressure"
Muhammad Meki, "Equity-Based Microfinance and Risk Preferences"
12:00pm-1:00pm | Small Business Lending & COVID-19 | 140 Brownfield Classroom
Ben Roth, "Timely Small Business Credit During an Economic Shutdown: Short- and Long-Run Evidence from Chile"
Martin Kanz, "How Do Borrowers Respond to a Debt Moratorium? Evidence from Consumer Loans in India"
1:00pm-2:00pm | Lunch | Atrium Dining Room
1:15pm-2:00pm | Optional Lunch Session | How to Build Complex Field Operations into your Research, an Introduction to Working with Organizations like IPA | 140 Brownfield Classroom
2:00pm-3:00pm | US Policy Approaches to Improving Financial Health | 164 Auditorium
Daniel Hartley, "Credit When You Need It"
Jin Huang, "Asset Building for Education: Financial Outcomes in a Child Development Account Experiment"
2:00pm-3:00pm | Savings & Loan Groups | 140 Brownfield Classroom
Megan Rounseville, "Can Mentorship and Village Savings and Loan Groups Improve the Impacts of Women’s Small Business Training in Conflict Affected areas of Nigeria?"
Jessica Goldberg, "Banking the Group: Impact of Credit Linkages Among Ugandan Savings Group"
Optional Dinner | Dean Karlan's Residence
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