Author

Benjamin Roth

Observed names: BENJAMIN N. ROTH, Benjamin N Roth, Benjamin N. Roth, Roth, Benjamin, Roth, Benjamin N, Roth, Benjamin N.

Institutions: Northwestern University, Innovations for Poverty Action, Harvard University, University of British Columbia, Innovations for Poverty Action, Boston Consulting Group (United States), London School of Economics and Political Science

Observed institutions: Northwestern University, University of Minnesota, Innovations for Poverty Action, National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard University, University of British Columbia, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Northwestern University, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Innovations for Poverty Action, Boston Consulting Group (United States), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, London School of Economics and Political Science

ORCID: 0000-0001-5795-1139

Observed ORCID: 0000-0001-5795-1139

OpenAlex ID: A5103001231

Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field

2022 · Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol, et al. · American Economic Review · 127

The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital

2025 · DANIEL GREEN, BENJAMIN N. ROTH · The Journal of Finance · 125

India’s Food Supply Chain during the Pandemic

2021 · Matt Lowe, G.V. Nadhanael, et al. · Food Policy · 40

Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines

2019 · Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, et al. · American Economic Review Insights · 35

What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?

2023 · Shawn Cole, Leslie Jeng, et al. · National Bureau of Economic Research · 24

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Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Enterprises

2019 · Benjamin Roth · SSRN Electronic Journal · 19

Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana

2022 · Dean Karlan, Matt Lowe, et al. · National Bureau of Economic Research · 15

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Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines

2018 · Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, et al. · National Bureau of Economic Research · 13

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Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps

2021 · Ernest Liu, Benjamin N Roth · Review of Financial Studies · 12

Making it Safe to Use Centralized Marketplaces: Dominant Individual Rationality and Applications to Market Design

2017 · Benjamin Roth, Ran I. Shorrer · SSRN Electronic Journal · 9

Making Marketplaces Safe: Dominant Individual Rationality and Applications to Market Design

2020 · Benjamin N. Roth, Ran I. Shorrer · Management Science · 7

What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?

2022 · Shawn Allen Cole, Leslie Jeng, et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal · 4

Do Microenterprises Maximize Profits? A Nonrandomized Vegetable-Market Experiment in India

2022 · Abhijit Banerjee, Greg Fischer, et al. · National Bureau of Economic Research · 3

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Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

2022 · Abhijit V. Banerjee, Greg Fischer, et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal · 3

Borrower leakage from costly screening: Evidence from SME lending in Peru

2021 · Irani Arráiz, Miriam Bruhn, et al. · Journal of Development Economics · 3

Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines

2018 · Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal · 3

Mechanism Design in the Presence of a Pre-Existing Game

2015 · Benjamin Roth, Ran I. Shorrer · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 3

Free Riding in Loan Approvals: Evidence from SME Lending in Peru

2019 · Irani Arraiz, Benjamin N. Roth, et al. · World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks · 2

Husk Power: Scaling the Venture

2018 · Benjamin Roth, Joseph B. Lassiter, et al. · 2

Keeping the Little Guy Down: A Debt Trap for Lending with Limited Pledgeability

2017 · Ernest Liu, Benjamin Roth · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2

Does good advice come cheap? On the assessment of risk preferences of others

2011 · Andrea Leuermann, Benjamin Roth · PsycEXTRA Dataset · 2

Climate impact auctions: an underused tool for green subsidies in the Global South

2025 · Max Alexander Matthey, Aidan Hollis, et al. · Climate Policy · 1

Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

2022 · Abhijit V. Banerjee, Greg Fischer, et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal · 1

Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

2022 · Abhijit V. Banerjee, Greg Fischer, et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal · 1

Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation

2020 · Ramana Nanda, Benjamin Roth, et al. · 1

Works count: 49

Citation count: 459

H-index: 9

I10-index: 9