William Jack
Biographic Data
| ID | 963699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Jack |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Jack |
| SIGNATURE | JACK W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1943 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
High Hopes: Experimental Evidence on Financial Inclusion and the Transition to High School in Kenya
We report results of a randomized controlled trial in which parents of final-year primary school students were encouraged to open a mobile phone–based bank account. Being offered access to the account induced a 5–6 percentage point increase in the probability of transitioning to high school, or a nearly 40% increase among compliers. This impact is driven in part by changes in financial behavior—parents save and/or borrow more and accumulate resou…
Fintech and household resilience to shocks: Evidence from digital loans in Kenya
The long-run poverty and gender impacts of mobile money
Substituting minutes for money In developing countries, bank branches and fixed-line telecommunications are scarce, whereas mobile phones are plentiful. These factors have led to the use of mobile money, whereby money can be deposited to an account linked to a phone, transferred to other users, and converted back into cash. Suri and Jack show that increased access to mobile money has increased long-term consumption in Kenya and reduced the number…
Risk Sharing and Transactions Costs: Evidence from Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution
We explore the impact of reduced transaction costs on risk sharing by estimating the effects of a mobile money innovation on consumption. In our panel sample, adoption of the innovation increased from 43 to 70 percent. We find that, while shocks reduce consumption by 7 percent for nonusers, the consumption of user households is unaffected. The mechanisms underlying these consumption effects are increases in remittances received and the diversity …
Effects of a mobile phone short message service on antiretroviral treatment adherence in Kenya (WelTel Kenya1): A randomised trial
Falling short of expectations: Public Health Interventions in Developing and Transition Economies
Designing incentives for rural health care providers in developing countries
Jack & Heintz: Blueprint for Labor Relations
A RECENT article in Harper's bore the title, “Jack & Heintz—Factory or Free-for-all?” That title is in itself significant. Many have wondered about the reason and rhyme behind Jack & Heintz labor policy. Is it a policy? What guides it? In the pages which follow, William Saunders Jack outlines the basic principles upon which his company's labor policy is based. The author needs little introduction. Erstwhile Business Agent of a labor union, he is …
Jack & Heintz: Blueprint for Labor Relations
A RECENT article in Harper's bore the title, “Jack & Heintz—Factory or Free-for-all?” That title is in itself significant. Many have wondered about the reason and rhyme behind Jack & Heintz labor policy. Is it a policy? What guides it? In the pages which follow, William Saunders Jack outlines the basic principles upon which his company's labor policy is based. The author needs little introduction. Erstwhile Business Agent of a labor union, he is …
Designing incentives for rural health care providers in developing countries
Falling short of expectations: Public Health Interventions in Developing and Transition Economies
Effects of a mobile phone short message service on antiretroviral treatment adherence in Kenya (WelTel Kenya1): A randomised trial
Risk Sharing and Transactions Costs: Evidence from Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution
We explore the impact of reduced transaction costs on risk sharing by estimating the effects of a mobile money innovation on consumption. In our panel sample, adoption of the innovation increased from 43 to 70 percent. We find that, while shocks reduce consumption by 7 percent for nonusers, the consumption of user households is unaffected. The mechanisms underlying these consumption effects are increases in remittances received and the diversity …
The long-run poverty and gender impacts of mobile money
Substituting minutes for money In developing countries, bank branches and fixed-line telecommunications are scarce, whereas mobile phones are plentiful. These factors have led to the use of mobile money, whereby money can be deposited to an account linked to a phone, transferred to other users, and converted back into cash. Suri and Jack show that increased access to mobile money has increased long-term consumption in Kenya and reduced the number…
Fintech and household resilience to shocks: Evidence from digital loans in Kenya
High Hopes: Experimental Evidence on Financial Inclusion and the Transition to High School in Kenya
We report results of a randomized controlled trial in which parents of final-year primary school students were encouraged to open a mobile phone–based bank account. Being offered access to the account induced a 5–6 percentage point increase in the probability of transitioning to high school, or a nearly 40% increase among compliers. This impact is driven in part by changes in financial behavior—parents save and/or borrow more and accumulate resou…
Economics (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Developing country (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)