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Social networks, phone money transfers, and rainfall shocks: evidence from Rwanda

Risk and Reciprocity Over the Mobile Phone Network: Evidence from Rwanda (Working Paper)

Working paper 9 Sep 2011 Firms and Entrepreneurship

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Joshua Blumenstock

Assistant Professor, University of California - Berkeley

Nathan Eagle

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard University

Marcel Fafchamps

Senior Fellow, Stanford University
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