Research

RESILIENCE

Rethinking Resilience: How to help people adapt to climate change, with Forhad Shipi and Matthew Kahn, World Bank, forthcoming. 

Firm-Level Climate Change Adaptation: Micro Evidence from 134 Nations, with Luca Bettarelli, Davide Furceri, Michael Ganslmeier,  Arti Grover, Megan Lang, Marc Schiffbauer, 2025.

TRANSPORT AND AGRICULTURE

Market Integration and Land Inequality in a Rural Economy: Evidence from India, with Brian Blankespoor and M. Shahe Emran, Policy Research Working Paper, 2023.

Roads and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Brian Blankespoor and Harris Selod, Journal of Development Studies, 2018. 

Evaluating Transport Infrastructure Projects in Low Data Environments: An Application to Nigeria, with Rubaba Ali, Federico Barra, Richard Damania, John Nash, and Jason Russ, Journal of Development Studies, 2017.

Agricultural Technology Choice and Transport, with Rubaba Ali, Federico Barra, Richard Damania, John Nash, and Jason Russ, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2016. 

Transport Policies and Development, with Uwe Deichmann, Yishen Liu, and Harris Selod Journal of Development Studies, 2016. 

How Roads Support Development, with Uwe Deichmann and Harris Selod, Let's Talk Development blog, December 8, 2015. 

Highways to Success or Byways to Waste: Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa, with Rubaba Ali, Federico Barra, Richard Damania, John Nash, and Jason Russ, World Bank, 2015.

Infrastructure in conflict prone and fragile environments: Evidence from Democratic Republic of Congo, with Rubaba Ali, Federico Barra, Richard Damania, John Nash, and Jason Russ, Policy Research Working Paper, 2015.  

 TRADE

Exports to Improve Labor Markets in the Middle East and North Africa, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Raymond Robertson, Editors, 2023

Exports and Labor Demand: Evidence from Egyptian Firm-Level Data, with Raymond Robertson and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Policy Research Working Paper, 2022.

Expediting Trade: Impact Evaluation of Serbia's In-House Clearance Program, with Ana M. Fernandes and Russell Hillberry, viewpoint, 2017.

Expediting Trade: Impact Evaluation of an In-House Clearance Program, with Ana M. Fernandes and Russell Hillberry, Policy Research Working Paper, 2016.

MICROFINANCE AND POVERTY REDUCTION

Microfinance and Vulnerability to Seasonal Famine in a Rural Economy: Evidence from Monga in Bangladesh, with M. Shahe Emran, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020.

Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh, with M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020.