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Sean Higgins

@seankhiggins.bsky.social
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Prof @NorthwesternU @KelloggSchool Finance. I study how technology reduces frictions in payments markets and consumer financial markets

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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Our next #WEFIDEV seminar is tomorrow, May 18 at 11am EST/5pm CEST and will feature work on disposition effect in 🇨🇳 by Qinling Ouyang from Stockholm University. The full schedule is available at wefidev.com @seankhiggins.bsky.social.
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Excited for this week’s #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development! Yao Zeng will present work on the impact of interoperability on #digitalpayments in 🇮🇳 Monday Apr 6 at 11a ET / 5p Central Europe Organized with @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer Nish Vats Nicola Limodio
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We are thrilled to share the program of the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-CEPR Conference on #Finance and #Development! seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/2... April 18-19 at @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social Featuring a dual submission with the RFS Thanks to Kellogg Asset Management Practicum, RFS, @cepr.org
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Join us today for our #WEFIDEV #webinar on #finance and #development. With @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Nicola Limodio Nishant Vats and Kim Fe Cramer Today we are hosting Rebecca De Simone and Nirupama Kulkarni - learn with us about delegated screening and disparities in home loans. See you soon!
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
In today's #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development we have two exciting papers on remittances by #NicolaLimodio and #IngomarKrohn Join us in a couple of hours, today at 11a US Eastern Time, 5p Central European time!
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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Our next #WEFIDEV webinar in #Finance & #Development is tomorrow Nov 10 @ 11amET/5pmCET. Excited to have Amineh Mahmoudzadeh talking about Justice in Lending in 🇮🇷 and Paul Brimble on Contagion in Financial Cooperatives in 🇰🇪 Details on the webinar schedule & the 2026 #WEFIDEV workshop at wefidev.com.
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
One week left to submit to the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development! Dual submission option with RFS Apr 18-19 at @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16: form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm...
View from Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University campus, Lake Michigan, and the downtown Chicago skyline
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Excited to announce the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development Dual submission with RFS Apr 18-19 at Kellogg organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16 form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm... Details seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/W...
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We are hiring pre-doctoral research fellows in the finance department at Kellogg @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social at Northwestern University Apply here: kellogg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Priority deadline Oct 31 cc @nber.org @econthaki.bsky.social #econ_ra #predoc
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
📢JOB OPPORTUNITY📢 I am hiring a part-time or full-time research assistant in Mexico City 🇲🇽 For a project with #PierreBachas #AndersJensen to understand the impacts of a tax on firms' cash deposits at banks seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/I... #EconRA @povertyaction.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Excited to announce the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development Dual submission with RFS Apr 18-19 at Kellogg organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16 form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm... Details seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/W...
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The #WEFIDEV #webinar series is back this fall! We are looking for *preliminary or early-stage work* in #Finance and #Development to be presented We also aim to have a session devoted to job candidates in finance and development on the market this fall Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Webinar in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV)
This form collects interest for presentations in the fall season of the Webinar series in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV) for junior scholars working on finance topics in developing countries. We ar...
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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 24/07/2025
We just opened another round of applications for Malengo's Uganda–Germany university program! Please share widely. (Note the early deadline, Aug 16!)
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Really interesting conference happening in #Chile in January on Promoting Financial Inclusion and Innovation in Latin America! Jointly hosted by @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, and @cega-uc.bsky.social 8 days left to apply Submit: lnkd.in/g_eS2cuy
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
It was a delight giving a keynote on "Payment Systems and Financial Inclusion" at the Federal Reserve System Payments Researchers Annual Meeting My slides: seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/h... Based on www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... + a discussion of fast payments in emerging markets at the end
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Very exciting that Review of Finance recognizes the importance of research on the future of payments and will have a special issue on this topic! revfin.org/special-issu...
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Special Issue: Call for Proposals on the Future of Payments—CBDC, Digital Assets and Digital Capital Markets - Review of Finance
Organisers: CEPR, European Central Bank, Review of Finance and Bocconi University (local host). Guest Editors Elena Carletti, Dirk Niepelt, Marcus M. Opp (Sponsoring RoF Editor), Claudio Tebaldi. D...
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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Join us for our final #WEFIDEV Spring webinar in #Finance and #Development that takes place today at 11am ET/5pm CET. Cameron LaPoint and Smit Gade will present their work! And check www.wefidev.com for important upcoming news! With @seankhiggins.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer and Nicola Limodio
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It was fantastic talking to @usatoday.com about how households can prepare for a recession If you're considering building up a savings buffer for a recession, but also have substantial credit card debt, it makes more financial sense to pay down debt than to save www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Join us on Monday 11am ET / 5pm Europe for our #WEFIDEV #webinar on #Finance & #Development. We have exciting presentations by Will Cong and Robert Hsu Rocha on #Fintech and credit allocation! Interested? sign up at www.wefidev.com Kim Fe Cramer @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Nicola Limodio
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
@loribeaman.bsky.social kicking off our annual Northwestern Development Economics Rookiefest where this year’s job market candidates in development from across universities present their JMPs!
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thanks everyone for a fantastic #WEFIDEV #Conference on #Finance and #Development at LSE. This was the first of three dual submission conferences with the RFS, so join us in the future! To learn more, check out our website: www.wefidev.com Thread on papers below ⬇️
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Day 2 of the #WEFIDEV RFS @cepr.org #Conference on #Finance and #Development starts with Silvia Prina on rehabilitating delinquent digital borrowers in sub-Saharan Africa
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The 2025 #WEFIDEV RFS @cepr.org Conference kicks off with Chhavi Rastogi presenting on investment along the supply chain in #India 🇮🇳
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
📢Job opportunity📢 We're hiring a full-time RA for a project with Chile's financial regulator on the effect of loan price comparison tools Spanish & #Rstats needed Details and apply: seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/2... cc #EconRA @povertyaction.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social @econthaki.bsky.social
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Small businesses don’t always take advantage of simple opportunities to improve their bottom line. Why not? @kellogginsight.bsky.social covers our research on this question in Mexico 🇲🇽 (w Paul Gertler, Ulrike Malmendier, and @waldo-tk.bsky.social) insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/why-...!
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Why Small Firms Take a Pass on Profitable Opportunities
And how they can be encouraged to buy in.
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Our #WEFIDEV #webinar on #Finance and #Development is back! We are meeting on April 14, 28, and May 12, with great speakers. Have a look at our program & sign up for our mailing list: www.wefidev.com/spring-2025-... Organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer & Nicola Limodio
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WEFIDEV - SPRING 2025 WEBINAR SCHEDULE
Seminars take place the second and fourth Monday of every month at 5pm Central European Time / 11 am Eastern Time on Zoom.
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We are thrilled to share the program for the WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development, with an RFS dual submission! Thanks everyone for contributing. See you in March at LSE! Organized w @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social, Kim Fe Cramer, Nicola Limodio www.wefidev.com/2025-confere...
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WEFIDEV - 2025 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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NBER @nber.org · 29/01/2025
Firms often fail to adopt profitable opportunities. Working with a FinTech to randomize offers to 33,978 firms in Mexico and show the role of behavioral biases such as memory and trust, from Paul Gertler, Sean Higgins, Ulrike Malmendier, and Waldo Ojeda www.nber.org/papers/w33387
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Dennis Egger @eggerdennis.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
🚨 Ten days left to apply 🚨 I am looking for an experienced research manager to join me at Oxford, starting as early as 1 March. Help set up a new research group for macro-experimental development. A highly impactful role for both research and policy! economics.web.ox.ac.uk/research-man...
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Raffaella Sadun @raffasadun.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The call for papers for the NBER Organizational Economics Working group (April 10-11 2025) is out! If you have a paper you would like considered for presentation, please upload it to this link by 11:59 pm ET on February 14, 2025: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b... Pls retweet (or reskeet?)
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Submission: Organizational Economics Working Group, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Happening shortly in Marriott Marquis Yerba Buena 3 & 4!
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Come to my #ASSA2025 session on #Finance #Development and #Growth! Presenters: Muhammad Meki Nishant Vats @emilverner.bsky.social Rebecca De Simone Discussants: Gautam Rao @raissafabregas.bsky.social Kristina Manysheva @sumudu.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/conference/2... #EconSky #EconConf
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
📢PhD students in Finance at #ASSA2025📢 AFA PhD student panel today at 4pm, chaired by Wei Jiang Advice from Elisabeth Kempf, Song Ma, Nadya Malenko & me on coping with stress, bringing ideas to life, & expectations w/ supervisors and coauthors www.aeaweb.org/conference/2... #EconConf #EconSky
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Sylvan Herskowitz @sylvanrh.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Looking to hire an ETC in DIME to help me work on a range of Digital topics including digital ID, connectivity, social protection systems, and financial inclusion. Please apply here and/or pass along to people you think would be interested! #econsky #econra worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Do coordination failures constrain financial technology adoption? In my paper last month's @aeajournals.bsky.social American Economic Review, I explore this using the Mexican gov's rollout of debit cards to low-income households and look at effects on retailers and other consumers 🧵 1/N
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Do coordination failures constrain financial technology adoption? In my paper last month's @aeajournals.bsky.social American Economic Review, I explore this using the Mexican gov's rollout of debit cards to low-income households and look at effects on retailers and other consumers 🧵 1/N
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Noam Angrist @noamangrist.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
📣 Hiring alert! Multiple postdoc and RA opportunities with us at Oxford @oxfordcsae.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social #econsky
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NBER @nber.org · 05/12/2024
Showing that alternative data from digital transactions through a delivery app are effective at predicting creditworthiness for borrowers with no credit history, from Laura Chioda, Paul Gertler, Sean Higgins, and Paolina C. Medina www.nber.org/papers/w33208
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
📢Today is the deadline to submit!📢 2025 WEFIDEV-RFS- @cepr.org #Conference on #Finance and #Development Mar 28-29 at LSE Dual submission option with the RFS Submit by today Dec 1: sfs.org/wp-content/u... DM @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social @KimFeCramer @NicolaLimodio or me with questions
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Our next #WEFIDEV #Webinar on #Finance and #Development (last of the fall series!): Jiayue Zhang on solar demand of small firms in 🇰🇪 Hakan Ozyilmaz on two-sided #payments adoption in 🇯🇴 Mon Nov 25 at 11a US Eastern/5p Central European DM @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Nicola or me for details
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Join us today! 11a ET / 5p Central European time
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Join us for our next #WEFIDEV #Webinar on #Finance and #Development next Monday! We have Daniel Araujo and Jacelly Cespedes presenting. If you are not on the mailing list yet, sign up here: wefidev.com/contact or contact @NicolaLimodio @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social @KimFeCramer or me
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Our next #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development is on #ClimateFinance! @FabrizioFerriani on climate shocks and global portfolio flows #HarishKamal on climate shocks and government bank lending in 🇮🇳 Mon 11/27, 11a ET DM @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social @KimFeCramer @NicolaLimodio or me 📉📈
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Today's job market post by @floriangrosset.bsky.social conducts two experiments in Cote d'Ivoire to show how job take-up and retention is much higher when workers get offered a job with a friend with whom they can commute to work together blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...
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Come Together: Employment Decisions and Joint Commuting in Urban Côte d’Ivoire: Guest Post by Flo...
The next in our job market series looks at whether workers are more willing to take a job if they can commute with a friend.
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
When Your Savings Account Is Also a Lottery Ticket: @KelloggSchool @KelloggInsight covers our work on lotteries as an incentive to open a bank account and save (w/ @paul_gertler @aislingscott @SeiraEnrique) insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/when... #RCT #FinancialInclusion #Mexico #econsky
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When Your Savings Account Is Also a Lottery Ticket
Prize-linked savings accounts can be more enticing to customers than interest rates—and banks like them, too.
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
It was a pleasure chairing a session on #firms, labor matching, and #entrepreneurship at #NEUDC2023 at Harvard Kennedy School's Center for International Development. Check out the PhD students’ papers here: t.co/oz7b9haIv4 #econsky
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Yesterday's VoxEU features our work on lottery prizes as an incentive to get unbanked households to open bank accounts and save Post: cepr.org/voxeu/column... Working paper: nber.org/papers/w31529 #RCT #Mexico #FinancialInclusion #econsky
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Using lotteries to attract deposits: Evidence from Mexican banks
Banks across the world finance their assets using deposits, which supply a more stable source of funding than short-term debt. But banks in developing countries struggle to attract deposits, as many p...
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Priority deadline this Weds to apply to work with us next year as a full-time RA (predoc) at Northwestern Kellogg Finance. Several faculty hiring! Apply: kellogg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #econsky 📉📈 @econ_ra @predoc_org
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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Hi #EconSky! Today at 11amEST/5pmCEST our next #WEFIDEV webinar in #Finance and #Development featuring work of @sedai.bsky.social in 🇮🇳 and Laura Aquino Arriaga in 🇲🇽. Full schedule on wefidev.com. Pls DM us to join the community @seankhiggins.bsky.social, Nicola Limodio and Kim Fe Cramer
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Priority deadline this Weds to apply to work with us next year as a full-time RA (predoc) at Northwestern Kellogg Finance. Several faculty hiring! Apply: kellogg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #econsky 📉📈 @econ_ra @predoc_org
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