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Michael Callen
Harvard Kennedy School

Michael Callen is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he is am a faculty affiliate with the Evidence for Policy Design program at the Center for International Development. He also is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action, Empirical Studies of Conflict, the Center for Economic Research Pakistan, the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, the Jameel Poverty Action Lab, and a Principal Investigator on the Building Capacity for the Use of Research Evidence: Data and evidence for smart policy design project. His primary interests are political economy, development economics, and experimental economics.

Articles by Michael Callen

Guest Articles

Monday
November 30
2015

Michael Callen / Joshua Blumenstock / Tarek Ghani

Mobile-izing Savings with Defaults in Afghanistan

The number of people with phones is far higher than the number of people who have easy access to traditional bank branches, especially among the rural poor. Until now, however, no one has tested whether mobile banking can facilitate default savings programs. This is exactly what a team led by Innovations for Poverty Action set out to do in Afghanistan.

Categories
Impact Assessment, Technology

Tags
impact measurement, mobile finance, research, savings, telecommunications

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