Publications
“Irrigation strengthens climate resilience: Long-term evidence from Mali using satellites and surveys” (with R. Sayers, K. Singh, S. Goodman, M. Walker, S. Traore, M. Rauschenbach, and M. Noltze).
PNAS Nexus (Feb 2024) 3(2)
"Highway to the Forest? The Siting and Environmental Impacts of Chinese Government-Funded Road Building in Cambodia" (with C. Baehr and B. Parks)
Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, (Oct 2023) Vol 122 102898
"Rebuilding Irrigation Infrastructure and Institutions: Evidence from Afghanistan" (with C. Glenn, S. Goodman, and R. Trichler)
Forthcoming at Economic Development & Cultural Change
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"The Economic Efficiency of Aid Targeting" (with M. DiLorenzo and C. Dolan)
World Development, (Dec 2022) Vol 160 106062
"Testing multi-stakeholder dialogue for better local governance in Niger" (with L. Mueller, K. Nolan, and P. Roessler)
Development Policy Review, (Oct 2021) 40, e12601. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12601
“Can Network Theory-based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?” (with L. Beaman, J. Magruder, and A. Mobarak)
American Economic Review (Jun 2021), 111(6), pp. 1918-1943.
“Linking Local Infrastructure Development and Deforestation: Evidence from Satellite and Administrative Data” (with C. Baehr & B. Parks)
Journal of the Assoc. of Environmental and Resource Economists (Mar 2021), 8(2), pp. 375-409.
“Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes,” (with J. Tseng, B. Robinson, M. Bellemere, A. Blackman, T. Boucher, M. Childress, M. Holland, T. Kroger, B. Linkow, M. Diop, L. Naughton, T. Rudel, J. Sanjak, P. Shyamsundar, P. Veit, W. Sunderlin, W. Zhang, and Y. Masuda)
Nature Sustainability (Dec 2020)
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“Childhood health and the changing distribution of foreign aid: Evidence from Nigeria's transition to lower-middle-income status,” (with Carrie Dolan and McKinley Saunders)
PLoS ONE (Nov 2020)
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“Impacts of a Large-Scale Titling Initiative on Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon,” (with B. Probst, A. Kontoleon, and T. Reis)
Nature Sustainability (May 2020)
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"Gender Gaps in Technology Diffusion?" (with M. Jones, F. Kondylis, and M. Mobarak)
Journal of Development Economics, 143 (March 2020).
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“Social Learning and Incentives for Experimentation and Communication,” (with A. Mobarak)
Review of Economic Studies, 86(3), pp. 976–1009, (May 2019)
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"The impact of an insecticide treated bednet campaign on all-cause child mortality: A geospatial impact evaluation from the Democratic Republic of Congo," (with C. Dolan, G. McCord, K. Grepin, J. Tanner, A. Kimmel, and D. Wheeler)
PLoS ONE, E 14(2): e0212890 (Feb 2019).
Open Access at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0212890
“Can Vouchers Reduce Elite Capture of Local Development Projects? Experimental Evidence from the Solomon Islands,” (with A. Beath, G. D’Adda, P. Grosjean and R. Weber)
Journal of Public Economics, 130, pp. 117-131 (April 2018)
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"Indigenous Land Rights and Deforestation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon" (with S. Heuser, D. Runfola, and R. Trichler)
Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 86, pp. 29-47 (November 2017)
"Microcredit and Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial of Finance for Sanitation in Rural Cambodia"
(with A. Fraker, R. Guiteras, G. Palloni, N. Shah, and S. Shirrell)
Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 86, pp. 121-140 (November 2017).
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"The Fish is the Friend of Matriliny: Reef Density Predicts Matrilineal Inheritance" (with P. Grosjean and J. Vecci)
Journal of Development Economics 127 , pp. 234-249 (July 2017)
“A Top-Down Approach to Estimating Spatially Heterogeneous Impacts of Development Aid on Vegetative Carbon Sequestration”
(with Daniel Runfola, Jeffery Tanner, Graeme Buchanan, Jyoteshwar Nagol, Matthias Leu, Seth Goodman, Rachel Trichler and Robert Marty).
Sustainability 9(3), pp. 409 (March 2017)
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“All-Cause Mortality Reductions from Measles Catch-up Campaigns in Africa,” (with K. Kranker)
Journal of Human Resources 50 (2), pp. 516-547 (April 2015).
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“Initial Endowments and Economic Reform in 27 Post-Socialist Countries ,” (with P. Grosjean)
Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (4) , pp. 892-906 (Dec 2014).
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“Unbundling Democracy,” (with R. Betancourt).
Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (3), pp. 552-568 (Sep 2014).
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“Crime and Microenterprise Growth: Evidence from Mexico,” (with S. Pearlman)
World Development 56, pp. 139-152 (April 2014).
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“Informational Barriers to Credit for Migrants: Evidence from Guatemala.”
Economic Development and Cultural Change 60(3) pp. 535-570 (April 2012).
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“Impact Evaluation of Infrastructure Investments: The Experience of the Millennium Challenge Corporation” (with Rebecca Tunstall). Journal of Development Effectiveness 3(1) (March 2011).
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"Civil Liberties and Economic Development" (with Roger Betancourt).
Journal of Institutional Economics 6(1) (September 2010).
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