Emma Riley
@EmmaRiley19
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan. Development economist, studying female entrepreneurship and digital financial services.
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Digital financial services like mobile banking can be a powerful tool to ⬆️ financial inclusion, especially for those in rural areas. In Ghana, Emma Riley & Abu Syeid Shonchoy looked at the impacts of an info campaign on digital financial service uptake: j-p.al/79f
What are innovative ways to increase the use of mobile banking services in rural low-access areas? Emma Riley & Abu Syeid Shonchoy explored the impacts of a national information campaign on digital financial service uptake in Ghana: j-p.al/79f
Can information campaigns encourage adoption of new digital financial services? In Ghana, J-PAL affiliates Emma Riley & Abu Syeid Shonchoy examined the impacts of pre-recorded phone calls & text reminders promoting mobile banking. Read more 👇 j-p.al/79f
🚨 Less than one week to go! Join us for the #SDG Webinar on the transformative potential of digital financial inclusion in driving forward the SDGs with Innovations for Poverty Action and World Bank. 🗓️ Tuesday, September 12th, 8 am-9 am EST. Register now ➡️ bit.ly/finclusion0912 💡
📢 Save the date! Join Innovations for Poverty Action , World Bank Research and the Alliance for a discussion on the power of digital financial inclusion to advance the #SDGs
🗓️ Date: Tuesday, September 12th
⏰ Time: 8am-9am EST
📌 REGISTER HERE ➡ bit.ly/finclusion0912
#GlobalGoals
1/ Nearly 140 million people around the world were active borrowers from a #microcredit institution in 2018. How has microcredit impacted firms and households? We unpack the evidence in our latest #PolicyInsight : j-p.al/pu78
On April 14th, CEGA’s fifth annual Psychology and Economics of Poverty (PEP) Convening will bring researchers to discuss effects of poverty on mental health and financial stress with Victoria Baranov, Emma Riley, and more!
Register Now: cega.berkeley.edu/event/psycholo…
Super excited for v2 of our Mobile Money VoxDev Lit out!! VoxDev
Launch event: 10AM EST TODAY!
cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Worked with an amazing bunch of co-editors:
#JennyAker
Catia Batista
#MichaelCallen
Tarek Ghani
#BillyJack
Leora Klapper
Emma Riley
#SimoneSchaner
Sandip Sukhtankar
#WEFIDEV Webinar in #Finance and #Development starts up again in two weeks!
Sep 26 at 11a ET is a session on #FinTech adoption: Emma Riley on 🇬🇭 and Bernardo Ricca on 🇧🇷
(Still finalizing fall schedule so no website link yet)
DM Giorgia Barboni Nicola Limodio or me to join