Research

Publications       

Does Gender Tagging Public Works Increase Women's Participation? Experimental Evidence from Haiti, Kenya, and Rwanda AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025. (with Tanay Balantrapu, Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, Felipe Dunsch, Jonas Heirman, Dahyeon Jeong, Erin Kelley, Florence Kondylis, Gregory Lane, and John Loeser)

Spurious Regressions and Panel IV Estimation: Revisiting the Causes of Conflict. Economic Journal, 2024. (with Christopher B Barrett)

---Earlier World Bank Working Paper version

---Summarized in WB Research Digest Spring 2018

Do Private Consultants Promote Savings and Investments in Rural Mozambique? Agricultural Economics, 2022. (with Steven Glover, Florence Kondylis, Valerie Mueller, Astrid Zwager, Matteo Ruzzante, and Astrid Zwager)  

Monitoring Water for Conservation: A Proof of Concept from Mozambique American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021. (with Florence Kondylis, Valerie Mueller, Astrid Zwager, and Tobias Siegfried)      

Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation: Evidence from Cyclone Phailin in Odisha Climatic Change, 2019. (with Eeshani Kandpal, Nethra Palaniswamy, and Vijayendra Rao) 

    ---World Bank Working Paper version.

Growing and Learning When Consumption is Seasonal: Long-Term Evidence from Tanzania  Demography, 2018. (with Brian Dillon)

The Processes of Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces World Development, 2018. (with Christopher B. Barrett and Abebe Shimeles)

The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces: Introduction to a Special Section in Agricultural Economics Agricultural Economics, 2017. (with Christopher B. Barrett and Bekele Shiferaw)

Works in Progress

The Distributional Consequences of Group Procurement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of a Food Security Program in Rural India

Market access and agricultural development: Evidence from remotely-sensed land use patterns at river crossings in Mozambique (with Tillmann von Carnap, Anna Tompsett, and Astrid Zwager)

The Impact of Forecast-Based Anticipatory Action: Evidence from Nepal