Emma Riley

Emma Riley
Junior Research Fellow
Christ Church College
emma.riley@economics.ox.ac.uk

I am a Junior Research Fellow in Economics, with a focus on development economics. My research to date has looked at how mobile money services contribute to risk sharing in Tanzania and improve the business performance of microfinance clients in Uganda. I have also examined the impact of a role-model and aspirations in the form of a movie "Queen of Katwe" for secondary school students' exam performance in Uganda. Current projects examine how mobile banking technology might benefit the businesses of female entrepreneurs in Ghana and the impact of a village-based poverty alleviation programme in Uganda. 

 

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Paper: Resisting social pressure in the household using mobile money: Experimental evidence on microenterprise investment in Uganda

 

Themes: Development Economics

 

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  • Household response to an extreme shock: Evidence on the immediate impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on economic outcomes and well-being in rural Uganda

    April 2021
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    Journal article
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    World Development

  • Mobile money and risk sharing against village shocks

    November 2018
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    Journal article
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    Journal of Development Economics
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  • CSAE Working Paper Series

    Role models in movies: the impact of Queen of Katwe on students’ educational attainment

    January 2017
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    Working paper
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    CSAE Working Paper Series
  • CSAE Working Paper Series

    Mobile Money and Risk Sharing Against Aggregate Shocks

    January 2016
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    Working paper
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    CSAE Working Paper Series
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