Emma Riley

@GCER_Georgetown @dmckenzie001 Congratulations!

🎉 Exciting news! @dmckenzie001 has accepted the offer to join @GCER_Georgetown as the new Edmond D. Villani Chair Professor of Economics! We can't wait to welcome him to the Hilltop! 🙌 sites.google.com/site/decrgdmck…

📢 Happening today: How can behavioral strategies boost women’s financial empowerment? @EmmaRiley19 (@UMich ) and @chitsidzo (@womensworldbnkg) will share evidence from randomized evaluations in Tanzania and Ghana. 🕑 1:00–2:15 PM GMT 📍 Register: lnkd.in/dG65V5vX

@danilaserra_eco Congratulations!!🙌

📣Popping in to share some happy news as I update my CV! 📣 Look out economics profession - there will be one more female FULL professor in September 2026! 🎉🍾👇

@cblatts @MeganTStevenson I would also be interested in the tutorial if you wouldn’t mind sharing it please.

It is super limited compared to just operating Claude code out of the terminal or via some app that makes it a tiny bit more user-friendly, like VS Code. There’s a learning curve to adopt adopting Claude code and getting used to it but you fall down it pretty fast, especially if someone you know can walk you through the first steps or you follow some of the online tutorials. if you’re interested in going more of a project management and executive assistant kind of direction, DM me and I can send you a link to my tutorial. It’s not yet ready for wide public prime time but having more users try it out and see if it works for them is helpful. But there might be better ones out there— more every day.

Has anyone else found that Claude Co-Work sucks compared to Cursor (on Windows at least)? Everyone seems to be raving about Co-Work, so I'm wondering if there's something weird going on with the security on my computer that bogs Claude down. It is a Microsoft security system.

🆕 When do cash transfers empower women? Today on VoxDev, @mahreenmahmud (@UofEBusiness), @kateorkin (@BlavatnikSchool) & @EmmaRiley19 (@umichECON) discuss how an aspirations workshop paired with a cash transfer helped Kenyan women: voxdev.org/topic/social-p…

Next up in our interview series is a conversation with @EmmaRiley19 ! She talks about her research on financial inclusion and women's empowerment, tips on conducting field work in development econ and much more! Check it out: #EconTwitter #ETRM econthatmatters.com/2025/07/etrm-i…

🆕 Incentives versus endorsement: How to boost digital banking adoption and savings Today on VoxDev, @EmmaRiley19 (@umichECON), @Abu_Shonchoy (@FIU) & @RdoseiOsei (@UnivofGh) discuss how peer-led endorsement doubled mobile banking uptake in Ghana: voxdev.org/topic/finance/…

Excited to share work with @kateorkin @EmmaRiley19 in rural Kenya. We show that adding an aspiration-boosting workshop to cash transfers increased women’s control over resources & decreased intimate partner violence as compared to cash transfers alone. tinyurl.com/3fwuhjyc

Researchers in Ghana explored how to encourage mobile banking use in rural microfinance groups. Results showed that having a group leader endorse the new technology & offering small incentives boosted adoption and savings. Read about the impact evaluation conducted by @Abu_Shonchoy, @EmmaRiley19 & Robert Osei with IPA Ghana and @OISLGhana. bit.ly/43AwV5E

How can mobile banking adoption grow in rural areas? An IPA study in Ghana found that combining small incentives and having a group leader endorse & support the new technology doubled adoption rates and increased savings by 30% after six months. bit.ly/43AwV5E #DigitalFinance #MobileBanking

@danilaserra_eco @TAMUECON @TatianaZarate Thank you so much for having me! I had a great time.

Yesterday we had the absolute pleasure of hosting @EmmaRiley19 at @TAMUECON - Such an inspiring visit! Bonus: @TatianaZarate & I showed up totally twinning ☺️

@ash_craig Comparison tools and making it as easy to cancel a policy as to start one. I think the UK has a good model for this for making it easy to compare and switch electricity suppliers.

Australian insurance companies increase your premium sharply each year (e.g., $100 for a car). Then you are supposed to call to get it put back to about what it was before. It's very annoying, and surely inequitable. What is the best way to stop such behaviour?

Excited to share a @vox_dev post on my new paper on digital financial services and women’s empowerment with @rachelmheath

@Val_Mueller_ASU I had dengue and only found out when I got back to the UK from Vietnam. I think it would have been better if I’d stayed in Vietnam! The UK doctors spent a week figuring out what I had then were like “oh you’re better now, don’t get it again.”

@danilaserra_eco Noooo that’s insane!

Has your IRB ever asked for the list of all enumerators involved in data collection & their ethics certificates, when you’re hiring survey firms to conduct a large study with probably >50 enumerators? (& You have provided the firms’ heads’ ethics certificates) I can’t do this 😩

@econhist_allday Although that alone wouldn’t fix the fact that I apparently modified these papers from 2022 in 1985….

@econhist_allday I think something weird happened to Dropbox recently as a load of my files claim they were created in the 1800s!

📖 New #CEGAWorkingPaper 📖 Adding a trusted friend's endorsement to individual incentives can double the adoption of mobile banking in Ghana, find @EmmaRiley19, @Abu_Shonchoy & @RdoseiOsei. How does this affect financial + digital inclusion? Learn more: buff.ly/3w7eib4

Delighted to see this out in print!

@danilaserra_eco If it’s too slow you brush up against all the (at the time far away) deliverable deadlines and have to go back to the beginning and renegotiate the contract all over again….

The bureaucracy of grant management at my university (eg, how slow everything moves, if it moves at all, and how many check-ins and follow up emails one has to write) is literally killing me.