Publications
"Asset transfers and anti-poverty programs: Experimental evidence from Tanzania," Journal of Development Economics, Volume 166, January 2024 (with Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh, and Utz Pape) [journal article] [working paper]
"Can personalized digital counseling improve consumer search for modern contraceptive methods?" Science Advances, Volume 9, Issue 40, October 2023 (with Susan Athey, Katy Bergstrom, Vitor Hadad, Julian Jamison, Luca Parisotto, and Julius Dohbit Sama) [journal article] [working paper].
"Improving the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries, The World Bank Research Observer, Volume 38, Issue 2, August 2023, Pages 179–212 (with Katy Bergstrom) [journal article].
"Children on the Move: Progressive Redistribution of Humanitarian Cash Transfers among Refugees," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 153, November 2021 (with Çiğdem Çelik, Scott Cunningham, P. Facundo Cuevas, and Luca Parisotto) [paper, accepted version] [paper, gated] [replication files].
"Using Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy to Improve the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls," Journal of Development Economics Pre-Results Review Papers, Accepted Papers Stage 1 (with Sarah Baird and others) [paper].
"Girl Empower: A Gender Transformative Mentoring and Cash Transfer Intervention to Promote Adolescent Wellbeing: Impact Findings from a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Liberia," Social Science and Medicine - Population Health, Vol. 10, April 2020 (with Kelly Hallman and others). [paper] [IPA summary]
“When the Money Runs Out: Do Cash Transfers Have Sustained Effects on Human Capital Accumulation?” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 140, Sep. 2019, pp. 169-185 (with Sarah Baird and Craig McIntosh). [paper] [supplemental online appendix] [pre-analysis plan] [detailed description of outcomes]
"Optimal Design of Experiments in the Presence of Interference," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 100(5), Dec. 2018, pp. 844-860 (with Sarah Baird, Aislinn Bohren, and Craig McIntosh). [paper] [working paper] [replication files]
"The Effects of Cash Transfers on Adult Labor Market Outcomes." IZA Journal of Development and Migration, Vol. 8(1), Dec. 2018, pp. 1-20 (with Sarah Baird and David McKenzie). [paper]
"Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth: How much can cross-country regressions really tell us?" Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 64(4), Dec. 2018, pp. 800-827 (with Francisco Ferreira, Christoph Lakner, and Maria Ana Lugo) [paper]
"Combining Pre-School Teacher Training with Parenting Education: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 133, July 2018, pp. 448-467 (with Lia Fernald and others). [paper] [supplemental materials] [replication files]
“Simulations for Designing and Interpreting Intervention Trials in Infectious Diseases,” BMC Medicine 2017 Dec. 29; 15(1): 223 (with M. Elizabeth Halloran and others). [paper]
“The Heterogeneous Effects of HIV Testing,” Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 37, 2014, pp. 98-112. (with Sarah Baird, Erick Gong, and Craig McIntosh) [paper] [replication files]
“The Impact of Economics Blogs,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 62(3), 2014, pp. 567-597. (with David McKenzie) [paper] [replication files]
“Conditional, Unconditional and Everything in Between: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Cash Transfer Programs on Schooling Outcomes,” Journal of Development Effectiveness, Vol. 6(1), 2014, pp. 1-43. (with Sarah Baird, Francisco Ferreira, and Michael Woolcock) [paper] [Full Systematic Review in Campbell Collaboration]
“The Regressive Demands of Demand-Driven Development,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 106, 2013, pp. 27-41. (with Sarah Baird and Craig McIntosh) [paper]
“Income Shocks and Adolescent Mental Health,” Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 48(2), 2013, pp. 370-403. (with Sarah Baird and Jacobus de Hoop) [paper] [replication files]
“Impact of a cash transfer program for schooling on prevalence of HIV and HSV-2 in Malawi: a cluster randomized trial,” The Lancet, Vol. 379(9823), 2012, pp. 1320-1329. (with Sarah Baird, Richard Garfein, and Craig McIntosh) [paper] [comment] [correspondence] [replication files]
“Examining the Reliability of Self-Reported Data on School Participation,” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 98(1), 2012, pp. 89-93. (with Sarah Baird) [paper] [replication files]
“Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 126(4), 2011, pp. 1709-1753. (with Sarah Baird and Craig McIntosh) [paper] [replication files]
“The Short-Term Impacts of a Schooling Conditional Cash Transfer Program on the Sexual Behavior of Young Women,” Health Economics, Vol. 19(S1), 2010, pp. 55-68. (with Sarah Baird, Ephraim Chirwa, and Craig McIntosh) [paper]
“Reinterpreting Between-Group Inequality,” Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 6(3), 2008, pp. 231-245. (with Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw, and Johan Mistiaen) [paper] [Stata ado file for ELMO inequality decomposition] [help for ado file]
“Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 92(5-6), 2008, pp. 1022-1046. (with M. Caridad Araujo, Francisco H.G. Ferreira, and Peter Lanjouw) [paper] [replication files]
“Poverty Alleviation Through Geographic Targeting: How Much Does Disaggregation Help?” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 83(1), 2007, pp. 198-213. (with Chris Elbers, Tomoki Fujii, Peter Lanjouw, and Wesley Yin) [paper]
“Not Separate, Not Equal: Poverty and Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 55(3), 2007, pp. 487-529. [paper]
“Toward Greater Global Equity,” Nordic Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 32, 2006, pp. 3-15. (with Giovanna Prennushi) [paper]
“Crime and Local Inequality in South Africa,” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 76(2), 2005, pp. 265-292. (with Gabriel Demombynes) [paper]
“Reassessing Conditional Cash Transfer Programs,” World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 20(1), 2005, pp. 57-80. (with Jishnu Das and Quy-Toan Do) [paper]
“On the Unequal Inequality of Poor Communities,” World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 18(3), 2004, pp. 401-421. (with Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen, and Kenneth Simler) [paper]
“How Low Can You Go? Combining Census and Survey Data for Mapping Poverty in South Africa,” Journal of African Economies, Vol. 11(2), 2003, pp.169-200. (with Harold Alderman, Miriam Babita, Gabriel Demombynes, and Nthabiseng Makhatha) [paper]