Fintech, Visual Attention, and Financial Inclusion: A Field Experiment on Migrant Remittances

Eduardo Nakasone is employed by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), but the research on this project was done when he was an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. FAO did not have right of review or comment on this research, and all conclusions are our own. This research received approval from the Spelman College Institutional Review Board, protocol ID 0B6A1D. It was funded by the National Science Foundation (Award 1649921) and the Morgan State University FinTech Center. During the 2020-21 academic year, Viceisza was a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the John Stauffer National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. During the 2021-22 academic year, he was a Carnegie Corporation and Rockefeller Foundation Distinguished Researcher and Creative Scholar at Spelman College. During the 2023-24 academic year, he was the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Phyllis Wallace Visiting Professor at MIT Sloan. We thank audiences at American Society of Hispanic Economists, Amherst College, BREAD, Duke, Economic Science Association, Experimental Methods in Policy, Fordham, Göttingen, Harvard, Howard, Indiana, International Money Transfer Conferences, MIT, Morgan State, NBER, National Economic Association, Northeastern, Ph.D. Excellence Initiative, Stanford, Texas A&M, and Wellesley as well as the following individuals for helpful comments, Isaiah Andrews, John Beshears, Joy Buchanan, M'Balou Camara, Colin Camerer, James Choi, Joe Doyle, Andrew Caplin, Katie Coffman, Marcel Fafchamps, Laura Gee, Charles Gillig, Rema Hanna, Arne Risa Hole, Deivy Houeix, Samir Huseynov, Seema Jayachandran, Ian Krajbich, David McKenzie, Marco Palma, Christopher Palmer, Silvia Prina, Antoinette Schoar, Tavneet Suri, Laura Taylor, and Caroline Theoharides. Research assistance was provided by Jala Abner, Miguel Almanzar, Camille Black, Luciana Delgado, Javier Fernandez, Christina Flakes, Dixita Gupta, Antonella Gutierrez, Hannah Hailemicael, Kerlisha Hippolyte, Jadyn Jones, Soonho Kim, Sarah Lokenauth, Shelby Pauling, Flor Paz, Elli Rufen-Blanchette, and MoNeka Young. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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