Can financial incentives to firms improve apprentice training? Experimental evidence from Ghana 

forthcoming at American Economic Review: Insights

with Gabriel Brown, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie McCasland, and Isabelle Salcher 

(Journal Manuscript) (Accepted Draft)



The impact of firm downsizing on workers: evidence from Ethiopia's ready-made garment industry. 

forthcoming at World Development

with Gisella Kagy, Eyoual Demeke, Marc Witte, and Christian Johannes Meyer 

 (Journal Manuscript)



Gender differences in informal labor market resilience.  

2023, The World Bank Economic Review 

with Erin Litzow,  Jamie McCasland, and Gisella Kagy 

(Open Access Journal Manuscript)




Are small firms labor constrained? Experimental evidence from Ghana. 

2023, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 

with Jamie McCasland  

(Journal Manuscript) (Accepted Draft) (VoxDev Article)




Gotta have money to make money? Bargaining behavior and financial need of microentrepreneurs. 

2022, American Economic Review: Insights 

with Gisella Kagy and Lena Song  

(Accepted Manuscript) (CSEA Webinar Video) (VoxDev Article)




It takes two: experimental evidence on the determinants of technology diffusion. 

2021, Journal of Development Economics,

with Jamie McCasland  

(Open Access Journal Manuscript) (VoxDev Article) 




Lights off, lights on: the effects of electricity shortages on small firms

2021, The World Bank Economic Review 

with Jamie McCasland 

(Policy Research Working Paper) (Journal Manuscript) (Online Appendix)




The market-reach of pandemics: evidence from female workers in Ethiopia’s ready-made garment industry. 

2021, World Development

with Meyer, Christian Johannes, Morgan Hardy, Marc Witte, Gisella Kagy, and Eyoual Demeke  

(Open Access Journal Manuscript) (The Optimist) (The CEGA blog




It’s getting crowded in here: experimental evidence of demand constraints in the gender profit gap. 

2020, The Economic Journal 

with Gisella Kagy 

(Accepted Manuscript) (Journal Manuscript) (VoxDev Video)




Mind the (profit) gap: why are female enterprise owners earning less than men? 

2018, American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings

with Gisella Kagy 

(Accepted Manuscript) (Journal Manuscript