Findings from a new University of California San Diego Rady School of Management study reveal people often hurt others because in their mind, it is morally right or even obligatory to be violent and as a result, they do not respond rationally to material benefits.
Weekly links February 5: Poverty and productivity, Mobile money explained, who wants to migrate, and more…
· The second VoxDevLit is out, this one is on mobile money, edited by Tavneet Suri and with a great group of co-editors – a great summary of what we have learned so far, and a call for more research “By the end of 2019, a total of 290 mobile money services were being offered in 95 countries; there were more than 1 billion mobile money accounts globally, including 372 million actively used for a transaction in the previous 90 days” “its use remains mostly limited to very specific P2P transactions: those that take place over long distances and those that are in places where holding cash is risky. Outside these applications, there has been less success” “Given that mobile money and, more broadly, a digital payments system has been so widely adopted in the developing world, and seeing that there are so few value-added services layered over it, there is a