Research
Work in Progress
What works in supporting women-led businesses? World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 10744, 2024.
Status: New Version. Revise and Resubmit World Bank Research Observer. Policy Version 2023.
Returns to Soft-Skills Training in Rwanda . World Bank Policy Research working paper 10489, 2023.
(with Andrew Brudevold-Newman)
Status: Revise and Resubmit. Labour Economics.
(with Isabella Masetto).
Status: New draft. August 3, 2023. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4530256
(with Jeanne Lafortune, Jose Tessada and Todd Pugatch)
Status: Draft February 2022.
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: Baseline, intervention and three follow-up surveys completed, endline ongoing.
Testing the funneling approach to support entrepreneurship in Malawi
(with Arti Grover and Stephen Anderson)
Status: Baseline completed, intervention ongoing
The Impact of Online Business Training and Peer Interaction for Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia
(with Rachel Cassidy and Menaal Ebrahim)
Status: Baseline completed, interventions completed, follow-up survey ongoing
Fostering Personal Initiative among women cross-border traders in Burkina Faso
(with Andrew Brudevold-Newman)
Status: Baseline and Intervention completed, follow-up survey completed
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Vocational Training in Vietnam: Soft Skills and Counseling
(with Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal, Finn Tarp and Lore Vandewalle)
Status: Baseline, intervention, endline completed
Resilient Economic Development in Malawi
(with Selim Gulesci and Jared Gars)
Status: Baseline, intervention, first follow-up completed
Old Working Papers
Facilitating the School to Work Transition of Young Women. World Bank Brief, Washington D.C., 2023.
(with Fernando Vega Redondo, Paolo Pin, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brumitt, Magdalena Dominguez, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy and Tommaso Fornaciari)
Status: Draft Dec 2019. New draft expected.
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