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Jonathan Zinman is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College 〔Dartmouth College, Department of Economics http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jzinman/〕 and a Research Affiliate at the New Haven-based research outfit Innovations for Poverty Action and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-based Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.〔http://poverty-action.org/about/people/research Innovations for Poverty Action: Research Affiliates〕 Formerly an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Zinman is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 〔http://www.phil.frb.org/payment-cards-center/visiting-scholars/ Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: Visiting Scholars〕 and Fellow at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Center for Financial Research. Zinman is also a member of the Behavioral Finance Forum and a Research Advisory Board member of stickK, a web-based start-up that enables users to make commitment contracts in order to reach their personal goals. ==Research== Zinman's research focuses on consumer and entrepreneurial choice with respect to financial decisions. Zinman's other research interests include development economics, behavioral economics, household finance and the use of field experiments and randomized controlled trials (RCT) in economics. Zinman recently co-authored a randomized controlled trial study evaluating the impact of microcredit on poor borrowers in the Philippines.〔http://www.economist.com/business-finance/economics-focus/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_TQDPTNRQ The Economist Online, "A partial marvel: Microcredit may not work wonders but it does help the entrepreneurial poor," accessed March 10, 2010〕 His research with stickK Founder and Yale Professor Dean Karlan and World Bank economist Xavier Gine on smoking cessation has shown the effectiveness of commitment contracts for smoking cessation.〔http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jzinman/Papers/CARES_27jan2010.pdf Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation (January 2010) forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics; Jonathan Zinman with Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan accessed March 15, 2010.〕〔http://www.economist.com/business-finance/economics-focus/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15174430 The Economist Online, "New-year Irresolution: How to combat the natural tendency to procrastinate," accessed March 15, 2010〕 Zinman's work has received coverage in the following media outlets: The Economist, The New Yorker,〔Surowiecki, James (15 March 2010), "Caveat Mortgagor", The New Yorker Online http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2009/07/06/090706ta_talk_surowiecki〕 The New York Times,〔http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/ski-resorts-exaggerate-snow-economists-say/, New York Times In Transit Blog, Ski Resorts Exaggerate Snow, Economists Say, accessed March 15, 2010.〕 and The Wall Street Journal.〔Clements, Jonathan (15 March 2010), "If You Don't Know Your Math, You'll End Up Taking a Bath", The Wall Street Journal Online http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB120043590582092473.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonathan Zinman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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