Research
Work in Progress
Testing the promise of digital scaling: in-person vs. app-based training for women entrepreneurs
(with Rachel Cassidy and Menaal Ebrahim)
Status: New WP available (click on title)
What works in supporting women-led businesses? World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 10744, 2024.
Status: Accepted World Bank Research Observer. Policy Version 2023.
(with Fernando Vega Redondo, Paolo Pin, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brumitt, Magdalena Dominguez, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy and Tommaso Fornaciari).
Previously distributed as Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT J-PAL summary
Status: New draft soon.
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs through Personal Initiative Training and Grant Provisions in the DRC
(with Elisabeth Erning, Markus Goldstein, Michael Frese, Mona Hafner and Julia Vaillant).
Status: Endline Survey Completed.
Testing the funneling approach to support entrepreneurship in Malawi
(with Arti Grover and Stephen Anderson)
Status: Intervention ongoing
Fostering Personal Initiative among women cross-border traders in Burkina Faso
(with Andrew Brudevold-Newman)
Status: First follow-up survey Completed.
The long-term effects of working while in school. Evidence from Employment Lotteries in Uruguay
(with Mery Ferrando, Noma Katzkowicz, and Thomas Le Barbanchon)
Status: Drafts coming soon!
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Vocational Training in Vietnam: Soft Skills and Counseling
(with Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal, Finn Tarp and Lore Vandewalle)
Status: Endline Survey Completed.
Resilient Economic Development in Malawi
(with Selim Gulesci and Jared Gars)
Status: Endline Survey Completed.
Old Working Papers
Returns to Soft-Skills Training in Rwanda . World Bank Policy Research working paper 10489, 2023.
(with Andrew Brudevold-Newman). Accepted Labour Economics.
(with Isabella Masetto). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4530256 and I4R Discussion Paper Series # 49.
Facilitating the School to Work Transition of Young Women. World Bank Brief, Washington D.C., 2023.
Constraints to Female Entrepreneurship in Pakistan: the Role of Women's Goals and Aspirations
(with Giovanna d'Adda, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said)
(with Santiago Perez Vincent)
The Impact of Funding on Research Collaboration. Evidence from Argentina
(with Alessandro Maffioli)
Inter-American Development Bank, Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness , SPD Working Paper number 1006, 2010.
(with Daniel Chudnovsky, Andres López and Martin Rossi)
OVE Working Papers 1606, 2006.
Un nuevo enfoque para el diseño de políticas públicas: los Foros de Competitividad
(with Veronica Gutman and Andres López)
CENIT, Documento de Trabajo N.29, 2006.
El Concepto de Competitividad. Medición y Aplicación al Caso Argentino
CENES, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Working Paper 15, 2004