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Natalia Rigol is Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School. She studies the design, targetting, and delivery of financial products to the world’s poorest people, with a particular focus on financial inclusion for women. Currently, Natalia is researching the interaction between financial inclusion and corruption, the role of intra-household bargaining in resource allocation decisions among entrepreneurs in the household, and the effect of caste norms on female labour force participation. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Posts by Natalia Rigol
क्या ग्रामीण महिलाओं द्वारा फोन का उपयोग किये जाने से उनके प्रति लैंगिक मानदंडों में उदारता आती है?
भारत में मोबाइल नेटवर्क की बेहतर कनेक्टिविटी के बावजूद, महिलाओं की प्रौद्योगिकी तक पहुंच और उनके द्वारा इसके उपयोग के संबंध में लैंगिक पूर्वाग्रह अभी तक बने हुए हैं। इस लेख में, एक अध्ययन से प्राप्त प...
- Giorgia Barboni Natalia Rigol Simone Schaner Natalie Theys
- 29 अक्टूबर, 2021
- फ़ील्ड् नोट
Does access liberalise gender norms around phone use for rural women?
Despite improved connectivity, deep-rooted gender norms continue to shape access to and use of mobile technologies by women in India. This note discusses preliminary findings from a study, which sugge...
- Giorgia Barboni Natalia Rigol Simone Schaner Natalie Theys
- 13 October, 2021
- Notes from the Field
Empowering women through direct digital wage payments
India’s rate of female labour force participation dropped from 37% in 1990 to 28% in 2015. Can greater control over earned income incentivise women to work and influence gender norms? This article d...
- Erica Field Charity Troyer Moore Rohini Pande Natalia Rigol Simone Schaner
- 29 November, 2019
- Articles
What happens when investments targeting women’s microbusinesses go to men?
Several studies find that male-operated – but not female-operated – microenterprises benefit from access to grants or loans. Applying the lens of household-level rather than individual-level inves...
- Arielle Bernhardt Erica Field Rohini Pande Natalia Rigol
- 02 May, 2018
- Articles
Long Run-Effects of Repayment Flexibility in Microfinance: Evidence from India
Financiers across the world structure debt contracts to limit the risk of entrepreneurial lending. But debt structures that reduce risk may inhibit enterprise growth, especially among the poor.
- Erica Field Rohini Pande John Papp Natalia Rigol
- 01 February, 2010
- IGC Research on India