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  • July 2014
  • Article

Smart Money? The Effect of Education on Financial Outcomes

By: Shawn A. Cole, Anna Paulson and Gauri Kartini Shastry
Household financial decisions are important for household welfare, economic growth and financial stability. Yet, our understanding of the determinants of financial decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Investment; Decisions; Behavior; Financial Condition
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Partners - Case Method Project

Modesto, CA CA 18 of 65 Isaac Farhadian John H. Pitman High School Turlock, CA Subjects: AP U.S. Government and Politics, College Prep U.S. Government, College Prep Economics CA 19 of 65 Miguel Flores St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy... View Details
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

History, Honors US Government AL Julie Albrecht St. Paul's Episcopal School Mobile, AL IA John Alden Williamsburg Jr-Sr High School Williamsburg, IA VT Aimee Alexander North Country Union High School Newport, VT NJ Andy Allard Union... View Details
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainability By: Cole, Shawn A., and A. Nilesh Fernando Abstract—We examine the role of management in agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Events - Private Capital Project

(International Programs Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management), Kate Bingham (Managing Partner, SV Health Investors), Ramana Nanda (Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, Imperial College London), and Conor Walsh (Paul A.... View Details
  • April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

Public Equities Impact Investing at BlackRock

By: Shawn A. Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi, Michael Norris and John Masko
In early 2021, BlackRock—the world’s largest asset manager with $9 trillion in assets under management (AUM)—sought to become a leader in promoting environmental and social sustainability. Over the previous ten years, CEO Larry Fink had written an annual open letter to... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Equity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • May 2022
  • Article

Can Gambling Increase Savings? Empirical Evidence on Prize-Linked Savings Accounts

By: Shawn A. Cole, Benjamin Iverson and Peter Tufano
This paper studies the adoption and impact of prize-linked savings (PLS) accounts, which offer lottery-like payouts to individual account holders in lieu of interest. Using microlevel data from a bank in South Africa, we show that PLS is attractive to a broad group of... View Details
Keywords: Household Finance; Banking; Savings; Prize-linked Savings; Lottery; Household; Personal Finance; Saving; Banks and Banking
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Enterprise Track, 2024 New Venture Competition video Play Video duration: 1:32 2024 New Venture Competition Runner-Up, Social Enterprise Track: Trans Health HQ Trans Health HQ is a tool built by the trans community that addresses... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

2017 Annual Review of Economics Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development By: Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong Abstract—This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2021
  • Article

Changing Gambling Behavior through Experiential Learning

By: Shawn A. Cole, Martin Abel and Bilal Zia
This paper tests experiential learning as a debiasing tool to reduce gambling in South Africa, through a randomized field experiment. The study implements a simple, interactive game that simulates the odds of winning the national lottery through dice rolling.... View Details
Keywords: Debiasing; Experiential Learning; Behavioral Economics; Financial Education; Learning; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Behavior; Decision Making
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  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

  Working PapersWhere Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained Authors:Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson, and Peter Tufano Abstract In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

sponsored by Haier Group and MLab Peter Tufano : Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). Deborah M. Winshel : Recipient of the HBS Club of New York’s John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award in... View Details
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

Financially Constrained Authors:Shawn A. Cole, Peter Tufano, and John Thompson Publication:Chap. 2 in Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Ely : Winner of the 2020 Wyss Award for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students, Harvard Business School. Boris Groysberg : Named a Top 100 HR Tech Influencer by Human Resource Executive and the HR Technology Conference in 2020. Linda... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Article Award for his article with Thomas Lyon, Magali A. Delmas, John W. Maxwell, Pratima Bansal, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, Patricia Crifo, Rodolphe Durand, Jean-Pascal Gond, Andrew King, Michael Lenox,... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research, edited by Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth A. Mannix, 359-381. Emerald Group Publishing, 2012 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

India Authors:A. Banerjee, Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo, and L. Linden Periodical:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming). (August 2007) Abstract This paper presents the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors

By: M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world (Barman 2016; Horvath and Powell 2020). The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend and, although there have... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Portfolio Companies; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Investment Portfolio; Business Ventures; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; United States
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  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

hoped to advance an impact investing ecosystem in China. The course was taught by Shawn Cole, the John G. McLean Professor of Business... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

comprehensive criterion of fair taxation proposed by John Stuart Mill and associated with the Libertarian normative framework-is given some weight in the social objective function, tagging generates costs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne