Sean Higgins
@seankhiggins.bsky.social
Prof @NorthwesternU @KelloggSchool Finance. I study how technology reduces frictions in payments markets and consumer financial markets
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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
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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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.
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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.
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...
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...
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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...
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...
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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...
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...
seankhiggins.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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...
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...
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
Apply here: kellogg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Priority deadline Oct 31
cc @nber.org @econthaki.bsky.social #econ_ra #predoc
Empirical Fellows
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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
Apply here: kellogg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Priority deadline Oct 31
cc @nber.org @econthaki.bsky.social #econ_ra #predoc
📢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
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
seankhiggins.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
📢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
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
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...
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...
seankhiggins.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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August 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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...
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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We just opened another round of applications for Malengo's Uganda–Germany university program! Please share widely. (Note the early deadline, Aug 16!)
📣 📣 Applications are now OPEN for Malengo's Uganda–Germany University Program! Apply by August 16th, 2025!
July 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We just opened another round of applications for Malengo's Uganda–Germany university program! Please share widely. (Note the early deadline, Aug 16!)
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
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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July 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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
Jointly hosted by @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, and @cega-uc.bsky.social
8 days left to apply
Submit: lnkd.in/g_eS2cuy
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
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
seankhiggins.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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
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
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...
revfin.org/special-issu...
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...
revfin.org
July 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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...
revfin.org/special-issu...
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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
May 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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
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/...
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/...
April 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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/...
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/...
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
Interested? sign up at www.wefidev.com
Kim Fe Cramer @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Nicola Limodio
wefidev.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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
Interested? sign up at www.wefidev.com
Kim Fe Cramer @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Nicola Limodio
@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!
April 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
@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!
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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
April 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
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
March 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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
📢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
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
seankhiggins.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
📢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
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
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-...!
@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-...!
Why Small Firms Take a Pass on Profitable Opportunities
And how they can be encouraged to buy in.
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu
March 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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-...!
@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-...!
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
www.wefidev.com/spring-2025-...
Organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer & Nicola Limodio
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.
www.wefidev.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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
www.wefidev.com/spring-2025-...
Organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer & Nicola Limodio
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...
Organized w @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social, Kim Fe Cramer, Nicola Limodio
www.wefidev.com/2025-confere...
WEFIDEV - 2025 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
www.wefidev.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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...
Organized w @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social, Kim Fe Cramer, Nicola Limodio
www.wefidev.com/2025-confere...
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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 https://www.nber.org/papers/w33387
January 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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 https://www.nber.org/papers/w33387
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🚨 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...
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...
economics.web.ox.ac.uk
January 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🚨 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...
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...
Reposted by Sean Higgins
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?)
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?)
Submission: Organizational Economics Working Group, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
conference.nber.org
January 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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?)
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?)