Testing the promise of digital scaling: in-person vs. app-based training for women entrepreneurs
(with Rachel Cassidy and Menaal Ebrahim)
Status: December 2024. Accepted, World Bank Economic Review.
Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope.
(project led by Abel Brodeur and I4R team, with contributions from long list of co-authors)
Status: April 2024. Conditionally Accepted, Nature.
Testing the funneling approach to support entrepreneurship in Malawi
(with Stephen Anderson, Arti Grover and Nandini Ramani)
Status: Intervention ongoing.
(with Fernando Vega Redondo, Paolo Pin, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brumitt, Magdalena Dominguez, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy and Tommaso Fornaciari)
Status: WP available: February 2025
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.
Fostering Personal Initiative among women cross-border traders in Burkina Faso
(with Andrew Brudevold-Newman)
Status: Surveys Completed.
Resilient Economic Development in Malawi
(with Selim Gulesci and Jared Gars)
Status: Endline 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: Endline Survey Completed.
Gender Gaps in the Performance of Small Firms: Evidence from Urban Peru. Policy Research working Paper, Prosperity, World Bank Group, 2025.
(with Bledi Celiku and Martin Valdivia)
World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-2030: Accelerate Gender Equality to End Poverty on a Livable Planet. The World Bank Group, 2024.
What works in supporting women-led businesses? World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 10744, 2024. Policy Version 2023.
Returns to Soft-Skills Training in Rwanda . World Bank Policy Research working paper 10489, 2023.
(with Andrew Brudevold-Newman)
Gender Innovation Lab Federation Causal Evidence Series. Wolrd Bank, 2023. (with Daniel Halim and Rigzom Wangchuk)
Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs: Replication and Heterogeneity by Gender of Hussam, Rigol and Roth (2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4530256 and I4R Discussion Paper Series # 49.
(with Isabella Masetto)
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. Inter-American Development Bank, Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness , SPD Working Paper number 1006, 2010.
(with Alessandro Maffioli)
Evaluating A Program of Public Funding of Private Innovation Activities. An Econometric Study of FONTAR in Argentina. OVE Working Papers 1606, 2006.
(with Daniel Chudnovsky, Andres López and Martin Rossi)
Un nuevo enfoque para el diseño de políticas públicas: los Foros de Competitividad. CENIT, Documento de Trabajo N.29, 2006.
(with Veronica Gutman and Andres López)
El Concepto de Competitividad. Medición y Aplicación al Caso Argentino. CENES, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Working Paper 15, 2004