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Tavneet Suri
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Tavneet Suri is the Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics and an Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her expertise is in the role of technology in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tavneet’s work cuts across multiple sectors, such as digital financial services, agriculture, and governance.
Tavneet is editor-in-chief of VoxDev; Scientific Director for Africa for J-PAL; Co-Chair of the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative at J-PAL; a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a board member of BREAD.
She holds a BA in economics from Cambridge University, UK, and an MA in International and Development Economics (IDE) and a PhD in economics, both from Yale University.
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"The Long-run Poverty and Gender Impacts of Mobile Money."
Suri, Tavneet, and William Jack. Science Vol. 354, No. 6317 (2016): 1288-1292.
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"Risk Sharing and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution."
Jack, William, and Tavneet Suri. American Economic Review Vol. 104, No. 1 (2014): 183-223. Download Appendix.
"Agricultural Technology and Nutrition: The Impacts of NERICA Rice in Sierra Leone."
Suri, Tavneet, and Rachel Glennerster, Working Paper. 2018.
"Can Digital Loans Deliver? Take Up and Impacts of Digital Loans in Kenya."
Bharadwaj, Prashant, William Jack, and Tavneet Suri, Working Paper. 2018.
"Strategic Voting in the Kenyan Election."
Suri, Tavneet, Rahul Deb, and Eleanor Wiseman, Working Paper. 2018.
"The Perils of Building Democracy in Africa."
Marx, Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri, Working Paper. 2017. Elections Survey.
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