Shawn Cole is a Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, social enterprise, and impact investing.

Muchof his examination inspects corporate and family account in developing business sectors, with an attention on protection, credit, and reserve funds.

He has additionally accomplished broad work on monetary training in the US and developing business sectors.

His new examination centers around planning and conveying counsel and schooling over cell phones, with an accentuation on farming and monetary management.

He has worked in China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Vietnam. He is a subsidiary of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. He is on the leading body of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab, as the co-seat for research.

At HBS, he has shown FIN1 and FIN2 in the central subjects, Business at the Base of the Pyramid, and seminars on sway contributing, too different chief training courses.

He presently instructs the PhD advancement succession in the Department of Economics.[1][2]

Prior to joining the Harvard Business School, Professor Cole worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the financial exploration office.

He has served on the Boston Federal Reserve's Community Development Research Advisory Council, filled in as an outside consultant to the Gates Foundation, and was the seat of the enrichment the executives panel of the Telluride Association, a non-benefit instructive association.

He is a fellow benefactor and board seat of a non-benefit, Precision Agriculture for Development.

He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, where he was an NSF and Javits Fellow, and an A.B. in Economics and German Literature from Cornell University. His work on insurance earned the 2015 "Shin Research Excellence Award;" in 2015 he was also named given a “Faculty Pioneer Award” from the Aspen Institute.

Cole, Shawn A., and A. Nilesh Fernando.

"'Mobile'izing Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainability."

Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society) (forthcoming).

(Pre-published online July 6, 2020.)

Cole, Shawn A., Martin Abel, and Bilal Zia.

"Debiasing on a Roll: Changing Gambling Behavior through Experiential Learning."

(pdf) World Bank Economic Review (forthcoming).

Cole, Shawn A., A. Nilesh Fernando, Daniel Stein, and Jeremy Tobacman.

"Field Comparisons of Incentive-Compatible Preference Elicitation Techniques."

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 172 (April 2020): 33–56.

Cole, Shawn A., William Pariente, and Anja Sautmann.

"A Revolution in Economics?

It's Just Getting Started..."

Art. 104849.

World Development 127 (March 2020).

Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia.

"The ABCs of Financial Education: Experimental Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases."

Management Science 65, no. 1 (January 2019): 346–369.

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Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong.

"Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development."

Annual Review of Economics 9 (2017): 235–262.

Anagol, Santosh, Shawn Cole, and Shayak Sarkar.

"Understanding the Advice of Commissions-Motivated Agents: Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market."

Review of Economics and Statistics 99, no. 1 (March 2017).

Cole, Shawn, Anna Paulson, and Gauri Kartini Shastry.

"High School Curriculum and Financial Outcomes: The Impact of Mandated Personal Finance and Mathematics Courses."

(pdf) Journal of Human Resources 51, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 656–698.

Cole, Shawn, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper.

"Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers."

(pdf) Journal of Finance 70, no. 2 (April 2015): 537–575.

Cole, Shawn A., Anna Paulson, and Gauri Kartini Shastry.

"Smart Money?

The Effect of Education on Financial Outcomes."

(pdf) Review of Financial Studies 27, no. 7 (July 2014): 2022–2051.

Cole, Shawn A., Daniel Stein, and Jeremy Tobacman.

"Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment."

(pdf) American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 104, no. 5 (May 2014): 284–290.

Carpena, Fenella, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia.

"Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance."

World Bank Economic Review 27, no. 3 (2013): 437–469.

Cole, Shawn A., Xavier Gine, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery.

"Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India."

(pdf) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5, no. 1 (January 2013): 104–135.

Cole, Shawn, Andrew Healy, and Eric Werker.

"Do Voters Demand Responsive Governments?

Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief."

(pdf) Journal of Development Economics 97, no. 2 (March 2012): 167–181.

Cole, Shawn A., Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia.

"Prices or Knowledge?

What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?" Journal of Finance 66, no. 6 (December 2011): 1933–1967.

Gaurav, Sarthak, Shawn A. Cole, and Jeremy Tobacman.

"Marketing Complex Financial Products in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Rainfall Insurance in India."

Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 48, no. SPL (November 2011): S150–S162.

Cole, Shawn A. "Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth.

Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?

(pdf)" Review of Economics and Statistics 91, no. 1 (February 2009): 33–51.

Winner of the 2015 Shin Research Excellence Award from The Geneva Association and the IIS (International Insurance Society) for his work on Insurance.