research

Working Papers

• "Learning from Self and Learning from Others: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh" (with John Loeser, Mushfiq Mobarak, Maria Jones, and Daniel Stein), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 10545 (July 2023).

• "A Few Good Masks: Evidence from Mask Manufacturing in Rwanda during the COVID-19 Pandemic" (with Kieran Byrne, John Loeser, and Denis Mukama), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9993 (April 2022).

  • Paper summary blog at Development Impact

  • Blog post on exposure designs at Development Impact 

• "Intervention Size and Persistence" (with John Loeser), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9769 (September 2021).

  • Paper summary blog at Let's Talk Development

  •  Data

• "Demand for “Safe Space”: Avoiding Harassment and Stigma" (with Arianna Legovini, Kate Vyborny, Astrid Zwager, and Luiza Andrade), World Bank Policy Research Paper 9269 (June 2020; updated November 2022). Revisions requested at Journal of Development Economics. 

  • Blog post at Development Impact

  • Brief

  • GitHub repository, microdata

Published Articles

• "The Speed of Justice" (with Mattea Stein). The Review of  Economics and Statistics (2023). 

  • VoxDev column

  • Blog post at Let's Talk Development

  • Dataverse replication files

  •  French version of the original Working Paper: "Accélérer la justice" (NB: this version does not include results from tax administration data which were added later)

• "Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda" (with Maria Jones, John Loeser, and Jeremy Magruder), American Economic Review (2022).  

  • Working papers: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9092 (updated January 2021) / NBER Working Paper No. 26698 (January 2020)

  • Blog post at Development Impact

  • Microdata

• "Do Private Consultants Promote Savings and Investment in Rural Mozambique?" (with Paul Christian, Steven Glover, Valerie Mueller, Matteo Ruzzante, and Astrid Zwager). Agricultural Economics (2022).  

• "Water When it Counts: Reducing scarcity through irrigation monitoring in Central Mozambique" (with Paul Christian, Valerie Mueller, Astrid Zwager, and Tobias Siegfried). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 8345. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2021). 

  • GitHub repository         

• "Gender Gaps in Technology Diffusion" (with A. BenYishay, M. Jones, and A.M. Mobarak). Journal of Development Economics 143 (March 2020). 

• • Blog at Let's Talk Development

• "Formalization without certification? Experimental evidence on property rights and investment" (with M. Goldstein, K. Houngbedji, M. O'Sullivan, and H. Selod). Journal of Development Economics 132, 57-74 (2018).

• “Does feedback matter? Evidence from agricultural services” (with M. Jones). Journal of Development Economics 131, 28-41 (2018).

• • Blog at Let's Talk Development

• "Seeing is believing? Evidence from an extension network experiment" (with V. Mueller, and S. Zhu). Journal of Development Economics 125, 1-20 (2017).

• "Protecting the Environment For Love or Money? The Role of Motivation and Incentives in Shaping Demand for Payments for Environmental Services Programs" (with S. De Martino and Astrid Zwager), Public Finance Review 45(1): 68-96 (2017).

• "Do Female Instructors Reduce Gender Bias in Diffusion of Sustainable Land Management Techniques? Experimental Evidence From Mozambique" (with V. Mueller, G. Sheriff, and S. Zhu). World Development 78 (2016): 436-449.

• "Measuring agricultural knowledge and adoption" (with V. Mueller and S. Zhu), Agricultural Economics 46(3) (2015).

• "School Proximity and Child Labor: Evidence from Rural Tanzania" (with Marco Manacorda), Journal of Human Resources, 47.1 (2012): 32-63.

• "Conflict-Induced Displacement and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina", Journal of Development Economics, 93:235-248 (2010).

• "Agricultural Outputs and Conflict Displacement: Evidence from a Policy Intervention in Rwanda", Economic Development and Cultural Change, 57:31–66 (2008).

• "Partnership Penalties and Bonuses Created by Two Major UK Benefit Programs" (with Dan Anderberg and Ian Walker) (2007), CESifo Economic Studies, 54:1-21 (2008).

Other

• "Sectoral heterogeneity in the COVID-19 recovery: Evidence from Rwanda" (with Kieran Byrne, Saahil Karpe, Megan Lang, and John Loeser). Mimeo (December 2020) 

  • Featured in Arezki, R., Djankov, S., and Panizza, U. "Shaping Africa's Post-Covid Recovery" (CEPR/VoxEU, February 2021; full book here).

• "Cost-effectiveness of community-based gendered advisory services to farmers: Analysis in Mozambique and Tanzania" (with Tewodaj Mogues and Valerie Mueller)  PLoS ONE 14(3) (2019).

• "Economic consequences of conflict and environmental displacement" (with Valerie Mueller), in Robert E.B. Lucas (ed.), 2014. "International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development," Books, Edward Elgar, number 15465.

• "Youths in the Labor Market and Transition from School to Work in Tanzania", (with Marco Manacorda) in J. Fares and M. Garcia (eds.). Youth in Africa’s Labor Markets (Directions and Development), Washington, D.C (2008).

• "Wages and the Labour Market since 1970" (with Jonathan Wadsworth), chapter in Work and Pay in 20th Century Britain, N. Crafts, I. Gazeley, and A. Newell, (eds.), Oxford University Press (2006).