Book Chapters and Working Papers

“A New Distribution Sensitive Index for Measuring Welfare, Poverty, and Inequality,” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 10470, June 2023 (with Aart Kraay, Christoph Lakner, Benoit Decerf, Dean Jolliffe, Olivier Sterck, and Nishant Yonzan). Under review. [paper] [replication files] [Blog post] [New version, 2025] [Supplemental Appendix, 2025]

“Quality of Care in Contraceptive Counselling and Client Outcomes,” November 2024 (with Luca Parisotto and Rony Rodrigo Maximiliano Rodriguez). [paper]

"Therapy, Mental Health, and Human Capital Accumulation among Adolescents in Uganda," World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 10849, July 2024 (with Sarah Baird, Chiara Dell'Aira, Luca Parisotto, and Danish Us-Salam). [paper] [reproducibility package] 

"Social Protection and Youth," in Hanna, R. and Olken, B. (editors), The Handbook of Social Protection: Evidence and New Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries, The MIT Press 2026. [open access link][chapter]. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 10832, June 2024 (with Caridad Araujo, Sarah Baird, Saini Das, Luca Parisotto, and Tassew Woldehanna). [working paper]

"Sustained Effects on Economic Empowerment of Interventions for Adolescent Girls: Existing Evidence and Knowledge Gaps.” CGD Background Paper. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development, November 2016 (with Sarah Baird). [paper] 

"Combining Mentoring Programs with Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls in Liberia: Baseline Report," World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7797, August 2016 (with Kelly Hallman and others). [paper]

"Transactional Sex in Malawi," in Cunningham, S. and Shah, M. (editors), The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution, Oxford Handbook 2016 (with Sarah Baird). [paper]

"Girl power: Cash Transfers and Adolescent Welfare. Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Experiment in Malawi,"  in S. Edwards, S. Johnson, D. Weil (editors), African Successes: Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, 2016. NBER Working Paper 19479, September 2013 (with Sarah Baird, Ephraim Chirwa, and Jacobus de Hoop). [paper] [replication files]

"Designing Cost-Effective Cash Transfer Programs to Boost Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa," World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5090, October 2009 (with Sarah Baird and Craig McIntosh). [paper]