Research

Work in progress

• • "Development, occupational diversity, and gender occupational segregation". With Ana Kujundzic.

  • "Food security for Africa’s growing population: a labor market perspective". Chapter for de Haas, M., Giller, K.E. (Eds.). How will Africa’s growing population be fed in 2050? Future-oriented perspectives on Africa’s food security challenge.

  • "Industrial employment and poverty". With Tigabu Getahun, Andreas Kotsadam, and Espen Villanger.

Published articles and book chapters

• • Jobs and political participation – Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia (2024). Journal of Politics, forthcoming. With Lovise Aalen, Andreas Kotsadam, and Espen Villanger. (Ungated draft version, Pre-analysis plan)

  • Women’s Work – Routes to economic and social empowerment (2024). With Ashwini Deshpande, Kunal Sen, and Maria Lo Bue. Introduction article for the special issue in World Development

  • "Who's employed? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa on Redefining Employment (2023). Journal of African Economies, 32(2): 151-174. With Isis Gaddis, Gbemisola Oseni, and Amparo Palacios-Lopez.

    • • Video, CEPR-STEG conference presentation (15 minutes)

      • World Bank Development Impact blog, World Bank Data blog

  • Structural transformation and the gender pay gap in Sub-Saharan Africa (2023). PLoS ONE, 18(4): e0278188. With Goedele van den Broeck and Talip Kilic.

  • Upside risk, consumption value, and market returns to food safety (2023). American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 105: 914-939. With Vivian Hoffmann, Sarah Kariuki, and Mark Treurniet. 

    • Previously circulated as "Safe food for me - and maybe for you: Upside risk, premium market access, and producer demand for a food safety technology": project report available here

  • Inequality at risk of automation? Gender Differences in Routine Tasks Intensity in Developing Country Labor Markets (2021). Chapter 2 in Albrieu. R. (Ed.), Cracking the future of work. Automation and labor platforms in the Global South. Available here. With Ana Kujundzic, Joel Gondwe, and Rulof Burger.

  • Measuring farm labor: survey experimental evidence from Ghana (2021). World Bank Economic Review, 35(3), pp. 604-634.  With Isis Gaddis, Gbemisola Oseni, and Amparo Palacios-Lopez.

  • What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies (2021). Journal of Development Studies, 57(3), pp. 417-442. With Stephan Klasen, Manuel Santos Silva, and Le Thi Ngoc Tu. 

  • The gender wage gap among China's rural-urban migrants (2021). Review of Development Economics, 25, pp.23-47. With Yan Wu and Nico Heerink.

  • Randomization for women’s economic empowerment? Lessons and limitations of randomized experiments (2020). World Development, Vol. 127. With Stephan Klasen

  • Parental unemployment and child health in China (2020). Review of Economics of the Household, 18(1), pp. 207-237. With Samantha Rawlings

  • Credit, insurance and farmers' liability: evidence from a lab in the field experiment with coffee farmers in Costa Rica (2019). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,166, pp.12-27. With María A. Naranjo and Francisco Alpízar

  • Incentives and the Diffusion of Agricultural Knowledge: Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda (2019). American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(4), pp.1164-1180. With Kelvin M. Shikuku, Erwin Bulte, and Peter Laderach

  • Globalization and social change: gender-specific effects of trade liberalization in Indonesia (2018). IMF Economic Review, 66(4), pp.763-793. With Krisztina Kis-Katos and Robert Sparrow  -- Cited in Policy Options

  • Gender, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalisation in Indonesia (2018). Chapter 9 in: A. Patunru, M. Pangestu and M. Basri (eds),  Indonesia in the new world: globalisation, nationalism, and sovereignty, ISEAS. With Krisztina Kis-Katos and Robert Sparrow

  • Introduction. Chapter I in: Gary Fields and Janneke Pieters (editor), Employment and Development, Oxford University Press, 2018.

  • The Gendered Labor Market Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Brazil (2017). Journal of Human Resources, 52(2), pp.457-490. With Isis Gaddis -- For a non-technical summary, see this Policy brief. Cited in Policy Options 

  • What explains the stagnation of female labor force participation in urban India? (2015). World Bank Economic Review, 29 (3), pp. 449-478. With Stephan Klasen -- Cited in the New York Times; also see the Let's Talk Development blog, and the IGC's Ideas for India 

  • Formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment in Indian manufacturing (2014). IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 3(22), pp. 1-17. With Ana I. Moreno-Monroy & Abdul Erumban -- cited in The Wire

  • Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training (2013). Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 9(1-2), pp. 1-157. With Klaus F. Zimmermann, Costanza Biavaschi, Werner Eichhorst, Corrado Giulietti, Michael J. Kendzia, Alexander Muravyev, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, and Ricarda Schmidl

  • Education and household inequality change: a decomposition analysis for India (2011). Journal of Development Studies, 47(12), pp. 1909-1924.

  • Growth and Inequality in India: Analysis of an Extended Social Accounting Matrix (2010). World Development, 38(3), pp. 270-281.

Working papers

• • "Inequalities in job loss and income loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 crisis". With Ivette Contreras-Gonzalez, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, and Michael Weber. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 10143 

  • "Routine biased technological change in a middle-income country: the case of South Africa". With Joel Gondwe and Rulof Burger.  FoWiGS working paper.

Other publications

• • Job loss during COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa. IZA World of Labor - Commentary, October 2022.

  • Eight ways universities can make career assessment more equitable. Nature, April 2022.

  • Can we use trade policy to achieve gender equality? IZA World of Labor - Commentary, July 2019.

  • Trade liberalization and gender inequality.  IZA World of Labor, November 2018. 

  • Youth Employment in Developing Countries, (2013) Background Report prepared for the European Commission, October 2013. Also available as IZA Research Report No. 58, 2013.