Details about Sean Higgins

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Short-id: phi288

Working Papers

2025

1. Do Behavioral Frictions Prevent Firms from Adopting Profitable Opportunities?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2024

2. FinTech Lending to Borrowers with No Credit History
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2023

3. Using Lotteries to Attract Deposits
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2017

4. How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
   See also Journal Article How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More, Journal of Finance, American Finance Association (2021) View citations (36) (2021)

2015

5. Can Poverty-Reducing and Progressive Tax and Transfer System Hurt the Poor?
   Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Working Paper Series, Tulane University, Department of Economics
   Also in Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (2015)
   See also Journal Article Can a poverty-reducing and progressive tax and transfer system hurt the poor?, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2016) View citations (11) (2016)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Financial Technology Adoption: Network Externalities of Cashless Payments in Mexico
   American Economic Review, 2024, 114, (11), 3469-3512 View citations (1)

2021

2. How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More
   Journal of Finance, 2021, 76, (4), 1913-1957 View citations (36)
   See also Working Paper How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More, NBER Working Papers (2017) View citations (9) (2017)

2018

3. Digital Financial Services Go a Long Way: Transaction Costs and Financial Inclusion
   AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 444-48 View citations (41)

2016

4. Can a poverty-reducing and progressive tax and transfer system hurt the poor?
   Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 122, (C), 63-75 View citations (11)
   See also Working Paper Can Poverty-Reducing and Progressive Tax and Transfer System Hurt the Poor?, Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Working Paper Series (2015) (2015)

Software Items

2024

1. CEQ: Stata module to carry out Commitment to Equity (CEQ) fiscal incidence analysis
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2018

2. FISCAL_IMPOVERISHMENT: Stata module to estimate fiscal impoverishment and fiscal gains to the poor
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2017

3. RANDOMSELECT: Stata module to randomly select and tag observations
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2016

4. EXAMPLEOBS: Stata module to prints example observations
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
5. HEAD: Stata module to print the head observations (first observations in data set)
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
6. TAIL: Stata module to print the tail observations (last observations in data set)
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics