Emma Riley
@EmmaRiley19
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan. Development economist, studying female entrepreneurship and digital financial services.
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined October 2011
@ash_craig Comparison tools and making it as easy to cancel a policy as to start one. I think the UK has a good model for this for making it easy to compare and switch electricity suppliers.
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Excited to share a @vox_dev post on my new paper on digital financial services and women’s empowerment with @rachelmheath
🆕 Empowering women through digital financial services 🇹🇿 Today on VoxDev, @rachelmheath @UWecon & @EmmaRiley19 @umichECON outline the positive impacts of increasing women’s use of mobile money in Tanzania:
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@Val_Mueller_ASU I had dengue and only found out when I got back to the UK from Vietnam. I think it would have been better if I’d stayed in Vietnam! The UK doctors spent a week figuring out what I had then were like “oh you’re better now, don’t get it again.”
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@econhist_allday Although that alone wouldn’t fix the fact that I apparently modified these papers from 2022 in 1985….
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@econhist_allday I think something weird happened to Dropbox recently as a load of my files claim they were created in the 1800s!
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RT @CEGA_UC: 📖 New #CEGAWorkingPaper 📖 Adding a trusted friend's endorsement to individual incentives can double the adoption of mobile ba…
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Delighted to see this out in print!
Seeing a movie containing a role model improved the exam performance of secondary school students in Uganda. In the March 2024 issue of REStat by Emma Riley @emmariley19.
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@danilaserra_eco If it’s too slow you brush up against all the (at the time far away) deliverable deadlines and have to go back to the beginning and renegotiate the contract all over again….
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Delighted to share that my job market paper is forthcoming at the AER!
Forthcoming in the AER: "Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda" by Emma Riley.
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RT @JPAL: Digital financial services like mobile banking can be a powerful tool to ⬆️ financial inclusion, especially for those in rural ar…
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RT @dmckenzie001: Coping with Weather Disasters through International Migration: The Role of Search Frictions and International Migrant Dem…
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@mxhupp kicks off the guest job market candidate posts!
Sacking the sales staff – How firms in poor countries deal with extreme weather: Guest post by @mxhupp - the first in this year's job market series looks at non-ag firms and how their response to bad weather depends on whether they export
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RT @JPAL: What are innovative ways to increase the use of mobile banking services in rural low-access areas? @EmmaRiley19 & @Abu_Shonchoy e…
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RT @JPAL: Can information campaigns encourage adoption of new digital financial services? In Ghana, J-PAL affiliates @EmmaRiley19 & @Abu_Sh…
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RT @BetterThan_Cash: 🚨 Less than one week to go! Join us for the #SDG Webinar on the transformative potential of digital financial inclusio…
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RT @BetterThan_Cash: 📢 Save the date! Join @poverty_action , @wb_research and the Alliance for a discussion on the power of digital financi…
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@kelly__grogan @jenniferdoleac @AAEA_Economics Oh no! My baby was too young to use the childcare this year but I was excited to bring her next year. That’s so disappointing.
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