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DPE Best Paper Award 2025 for Olivia & Christina

At this year’s DPE Offsite, Olivia Wirth and Christina Petrik were awarded the DPE Best Paper Award for their outstanding work: “If you build it, will they come? Incentivizing the Adoption of Digital Financial Services in Niger” (co-authored with Jenny Aker, Josué Awonon, and Michael Grimm).

Their paper offers valuable insights into how digital financial infrastructure and behavioral incentives can foster financial inclusion in one of the world’s most challenging environments.

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