Timothy Ogden

@timothyogden

MD, Financial Access Initiative. Exec Partner, Sona Partners. , Experimental Conversations () Alliance Magazine, GiveWell Board

West Chester, PA & NYC
Joined March 2009
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  1. Mar 16

    I think important to note that the CEO of Grameen America is the former CEO of Avon

    The top-line result of this study of microlending is that it helps women start businesses and earn income. But unfortunately, the businesses they are starting are often multilevel marketing businesses, where you mostly make money by signing up other people. (1/7)
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    Feb 7

    Register | Our next explores the role of currencies in financial inclusion, cybersecurity, consumer protection & more:

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  3. Feb 1

    When was the last time you heard anything about "the sharing economy"? Anybody remember the name of that platform that was going to "change everything" by letting people share their HH items?

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  4. Feb 1

    This alone is almost enough to make me restart the faiV

    Large statistical uncertainty in the ranking of economics journals: 🔹"10 of the 30 journals cannot be rejected to be among the top-five journals and 🔹only one, the QJE, can be rejected to be among the worst 25" by Magne Mogstad et al (2022), AEA P&P
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  5. Jan 20

    Local health department is overwhelmed by Omicron surge, and response is to focus efforts by...banning schools from doing contact tracing and reporting numbers of new cases to parents.

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  6. 20 Dec 2021

    Today's Money Stuff only has a link to interview of Ray Dalio, with no discussion, and I feel like a kid who woke up to coal in his stocking.

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  7. 15 Dec 2021

    Robert Downey Jr. announced a new science initiative and it's NOT the Arc Institute that was also announced today?

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  8. 15 Nov 2021

    A shot in the dark: there's a relatively recent WP of an RCT with Sama on impact on workers that go through their training program, finding it's good for those that get employed by Sama, but not so good for those that don't. Anyone remember it?

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  9. 12 Oct 2021

    And on a completely different note about things I wrote a long time ago, reading this () about a new commission on giving in the US reminded me a lot of this thing that I wrote back in 2013.

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  10. 12 Oct 2021

    Thinking this might be a good week to remind people that Guido Imbens said "I highly recommend this book for all DevEcon, as well as for others interested in methodology and economics in general" about this:

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  11. 29 Sep 2021

    A question that may only interest me: When did "feedback" and "input" take over corporate vocabulary, and what word(s) were used for that concept before that?

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  12. 21 Sep 2021

    Late breaking update: tomorrow's on Building Inclusive Financial Systems will now include , ED of FSD-U, and Indradeep Ghosh, ED of It's going to be a fantastic conversation. Register here:

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  13. 17 Sep 2021

    Despite huge gains in the last 2 decades, 30% of adults worldwide are still unbanked. What gaps remain & how do we close them? What role does policy, tech & the private sector play? Join the conversation with leading experts on Sept 22

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  14. 25 Aug 2021

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  15. 17 Aug 2021

    Listening to Columbia's DFSO webinar on Fintech and cybersecurity, and my main conclusion so far is: Regulate DFS in developing countries; Secure DFS in developing countries. Pick One.

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  16. 6 Aug 2021

    For those of you with projects in the field right now, are you thinking about field staff vaccination policies (at least in countries were vaccines may be commercially available in the next 6 months)? If so, what are you thinking?

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  17. 3 Aug 2021

    If Doyle or start tweeting about the anarchist's tool chest or starts tweeting about Jaap Stam's tactical naivete I'll know the end is near

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  18. 3 Aug 2021

    I am very concerned about the stability of the simulation when my MLS and history podcast worlds collide

    Finally remembered to add to the map and am now eagerly awaiting the update.
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  19. 22 Jul 2021

    I feel like there should be some coda here but really it's just *throw hands up in the air* and try to pretend that what I do matters long enough to get me through the day.

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  20. 22 Jul 2021

    The tortured metaphors. The trademarks. The chutzpah to use words like "rigorously" and "evidence-based"

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