Callen, Mike

Number of items: 30.
Economics
  • Callen, Mike, Fajardo Steinhauser, Miguel, Findley, Michael G., Ghani, Tarek (2025). Can digital aid deliver during humanitarian crises? Management Science, 71(11), 9730 - 9748. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2024.06469 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Michael, Gulzar, Saad, Hasanain, Ali, Khan, Muhammad Yasir, Rezaee, Arman (2025). Personalities and public sector performance: evidence from a health experiment in Pakistan. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 73(3), 1439-1474. https://doi.org/10.1086/731673 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Mike, Weigel, Jonathan, Yuchtman, Noam (2024). Experiments about institutions. Annual Review of Economics, 16, 105 – 131. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-091823-031317 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Mike, Gulzar, Saad, Rezaee, Arman, Shapiro, Jacob N. (2024). Extending the formal state: the case of Pakistan's frontier crimes regulation. Economica, 91(363), 701-718. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12527 picture_as_pdf
  • Blumenstock, Joshua, Callen, Mike, Ghani, Tarek, Gonzalez, Robert (2024). Violence and financial decisions: evidence from mobile money in Afghanistan. Review of Economics and Statistics, 106(2), 352–369. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01147 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Mike, Gulzarz, Saad, Hasanain, Ali, Khan, Muhammad Yasir, Rezaeek, Arman (2023). The political economy of public sector absence. Journal of Public Economics, 218, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104787 picture_as_pdf
  • Andreoni, James, Callen, Mike, Hussain, Karrar, Khan, Muhammad Yasir, Sprenger, Charles (2022). Using preference estimates to customize incentives: an application to Polio vaccination drives in Pakistan. Journal of the European Economic Association, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac068 picture_as_pdf
  • Solís Arce, Julio S., Warren, Shana S., Meriggi, Niccolò F., Scacco, Alexandra, McMurry, Nina, Voors, Maarten, Syunyaev, Georgiy, Malik, Amyn Abdul, Aboutajdine, Samya & Adeojo, Opeyemi et al (2021). COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries. Nature Medicine, 27(8), 1385 - 1394. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01454-y picture_as_pdf
  • Bursztyn, Leonardo, Callen, Mike, Ferman, Bruno, Gulzar, Saad, Hasanain, Ali, Yuchtman, Noam (2020). Political identity: experimental evidence on anti-Americanism in Pakistan. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(5), 2532 – 2560. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvz053 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Mike, Gulzar, Saad, Hasanain, Ali, Khan, Muhammad Yasir, Rezaee, Arman (2020). Data and policy decisions: experimental evidence from Pakistan. Journal of Development Economics, 146, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102523 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Mike, Gulzar, Saad, Rezaee, Arman (2020). Can political alignment be costly? Journal of Politics, 82(2), 612 - 626. https://doi.org/10.1086/706890 picture_as_pdf
  • Berman, Eli, Callen, Mike, Gibson, Clark C., Long, James D., Rezaee, Arman (2019). Election fairness and government legitimacy in Afghanistan. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 168, 292 - 317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.10.011 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Michael, De Mel, Suresh, McIntosh, Craig, Woodruff, Christopher (2019). What are the headwaters of formal savings? Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka. Review of Economic Studies, 86(6), 2491 - 2529. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdz020 picture_as_pdf
  • Condra, Luke N., Callen, Michael, Iyengar, Radha K., Long, James D., Shapiro, Jacob N. (2019). Damaging democracy? Security provision and turnout in Afghan elections†. Economics and Politics, 31(2), 163-193. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.12128 picture_as_pdf
  • Blumenstock, Joshua, Callen, Mike, Ghani, Tarek (2018). Why do defaults affect behavior? Experimental evidence from Afghanistan. American Economic Review, 108(10), 2868 – 2901. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20171676 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Mike, Gulzar, Saad, Hasanain, Ali, Khan, Yasir, Rezaee, Arman (2018). Personalities and public sector performance: evidence from a health experiment in Pakistan. (NBER Working Paper Series 21180). National Bureau of Economic Research.
  • Callen, Mike, Andreoni, James, Khan, Yasir, Jaffar, Karrar, Sprenger, Charles (2018). Using preference estimates to customize incentives: an application to polio vaccination drives in Pakistan. (NBER Working Papers 22019). National Bureau of Economic Research.
  • Callen, Mike, Blumenstock, Joshua E., Ghani, Tarek (2016). Mobile-izing savings with automatic contributions: experimental evidence on dynamic inconsistency and the default effect in Afghanistan. (IPA Working Papers). Innovations for Poverty Action.
  • Callen, Mike, Gibson, Clark C., Jung, Danielle, Long, James D. (2015). Improving electoral integrity with information and communications technology. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 3(1), 4 - 17. https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2015.14 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Michael (2015). Catastrophes and time preference: Evidence from the Indian Ocean Earthquake. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 118, 199-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.02.019
  • Blumenstock, Joshua E., Callen, Michael, Ghani, Tarek, Koepke, Lucas (2015). Promises and Pitfalls of Mobile Money in Afghanistan: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2015 . Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2737856.2738031
  • Callen, Mike, Imbs, Jean, Mauro, Paolo (2015). Pooling risk among countries. Journal of International Economics, 96(1), 88-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2015.01.006 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Michael, Long, James D. (2015). Institutional corruption and election fraud: evidence from a field experiment in Afghanistan. American Economic Review, 105(1), 354 - 381. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20120427 picture_as_pdf
  • Callen, Mike, Blumenstock, Joshua E., Ghani, Tarek (2014). Violence and financial decisions: evidence from mobile money in Afghanistan.
  • Callen, Mike, Gulzar, Saad, Hasanain, Ali, Khan, Yasir (2014). The political economy of public employee absence: experimental evidence from Pakistan. (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Evaluations 909). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Berman, Eli, Callen, Mike, Gibson, Clark C., Long, James D. (2014). Elections and government legitimacy in Afghanistan. (CEGA Working Paper Series 033). University of California.
  • Callen, Mike, Isaqzadeh, Mohammad, Long, James D., Sprenger, Charles (2014). Violence and risk preference: experimental evidence from Afghanistan. American Economic Review, 104(1), 123 - 148. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.1.123 picture_as_pdf
  • Weidmann, Nils B., Callen, Mike (2012). Violence and Election Fraud: evidence from Afghanistan. British Journal of Political Science, 43(1), 53 - 75. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123412000191
  • Berman, Eli, Callen, Michael, Felter, Joseph H., Shapiro, Jacob N. (2011). Do working men rebel? insurgency and unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 55(4), 496-528. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002710393920
    • LSE
  • Callen, Michael, Ghani, Tarek, Blumenstock, Joshua, Gonzalez, Robert (2021). Replication Data for: Violence and Financial Decisions: Evidence from Mobile Money in Afghanistan. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/z1h2fc
    • Management
  • Bursztyn, Leonardo, Callen, Mike, Ferman, Bruno, Gulzar, Saad, Hasanain, Ali, Yuchtman, Noam (2020). Political identity: experimental evidence on anti-Americanism in Pakistan. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(5), 2532 – 2560. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvz053 picture_as_pdf