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Mobile-izing savings with automatic contributions : experimental evidence on present bias and default effects in Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael; Ghani, Tarek - 2016

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Why do defaults affect behavior? : experimental evidence from Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael; Ghani, Tarek - 2017

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Why do defaults affect behavior? : experimental evidence from Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael; Ghani, Tarek - 2017

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Insecurity and industrial organization : evidence from Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua; Ghani, Tarek; Herskowitz, Sylvan; … - 2018

activity using mobile phone metadata. Using Afghanistan as the empirical setting, the analysis combines mobile phone data from … private sector in Afghanistan responds to insecurity. The findings indicate that firms reduce presence in districts following …

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Why do defaults affect behavior? : experimental evidence from Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael; Ghani, Tarek - In: The American economic review 108 (2018) 10, pp. 2868-2901

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Strengthening fragile states : evidence from mobile salary payments in Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael; Faikina, Anastasiia; … - 2023

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Measuring religion from behavior : climate shocks and religious adherence in Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua; Dube, Oeindrila; Callen, Michael - 2023

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Why do default affect behavior? : experimental evidence from Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael; Ghani, Tarek - 2017

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Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua - 2017

We report on an experiment examining why default options impact behavior. By randomly assigning employees to different varieties of a salary-linked savings account, we find that default enrollment increases participation by 40 percentage points--an effect equivalent to providing a 50% matching...

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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan

Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

. Exploiting random variation in climate, we find that as economic conditions in Afghanistan worsen, people become more religiously …

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