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A personal touch in text messaging can improve microloan repayment

by Dean Karlan, Melanie Morten, & Jonathan Zinman
February 16, 2017

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Author Note

We appreciate the cooperation of Green Bank and Rural Bank of Mabitac in designing and implementing this study. We thank the editor and anonymous reviewers; John Owens and the staff at MABS in the Philippines for help with data and implementation mechanics; and Tomoko Harigaya, Rebecca Hughes, Mark Miller, Megan McGuire, and Junica Soriano for excellent fieldwork. We thank participants at the 2011 Advances with Field Experiments conference and the 2013 IZA/WZB Field Days conference for helpful comments. Financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. All opinions and errors are our own.

Author Affiliation

Karlan, Department of Economics, Yale University; Morten, Department of Economics, Stanford University; Zinman, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College. Corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected]

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