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A research partnership between Common Cents Lab and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth highlights how digital platforms can use behavioral science to enhance financial resilience.

Partners of the Common Cents Lab are tech companies, banks, credit unions, non-profits, and government organizations with the common goal of using behavioral science to improve the financial well-being of low-to moderate-income people in the United States.Startups that participate in our Startup Lab academic incubator program are exposed to behavioral economics, supported in the integration of insights from social science, and are actively involved in collaborative projects with Center For Advanced Hindsight members in order to answer startup-specific research questions.CCL is committed to sharing our knowledge about human thought, behavior, and decision-making with the world at large. Between our course material on Coursera, Udemy, and Daily Bits: we have a course for you, whether you are a hardcore behavioral science fan or are just looking to learn something new about the world around you.The Common Cents Lab is working with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth to improve the financial resilience of digital platform workers and entrepreneurs in Latin America.

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Solutions that aim to increase the financial well-being for low- to moderate-income people living in the United States and abroad.

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North America

Designing for financial resilience

Financial health

Asia Pacific

Middle East & Africa

Europe

Latin American & Caribbean

Global

AI for social impact

Climate change

Data for good

Digital transformation

Economic development

Financial inclusion

Gender equity

Global development

Public-private partnerships

Small business