Research
Journal Articles
The impact of strengthening agricultural extension services on women farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia, joint with Niklas Buehren Markus Goldstein, and Julia Vaillant. 2019. Agricultural Economics. 50 (4): 407-419.
Enrollment without Learning: Teacher Effort, Knowledge, and Skill in Primary Schools in Africa, joint with Tessa Bold, Deon Filmer, Gayle Martin, Brian Stacy, Christophe Rockmore, Jakob Svensson, and Waly Wane. 2017. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 31(4):185-204.
Community monitoring interventions to curb corruption and increase access and quality in service delivery: a systematic review with Laura Carella, Ana Pacheco, Guillermo Cruces, and Leonardo Gasparini. 2017. Journal of Development Effectiveness. 9 (4): 462-499.
Polarization in Latin America: Patterns and Links with Institutions and Conflict, joint with L. Gasparini, M. Horestein and S. Olivieri. 2008. Oxford Journal of Development Studies, 36: 461-84.
Working Papers
The Lost Human Capital: Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Africa with Tessa Bold, Deon Filmer, and Jakob Svensson. 2017. Working paper IIES.
Evidence-Based Teaching : Effective Teaching Practices in Primary School Classrooms with Adelle Pushparatnam, Sara ; Rimm-Kaufman, and Keri Ka-Yee Wong. 2018. World Bank Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 8656. Washington, D.C.
Measuring Teaching Practices at Scale : Results from the Development and Validation of the Teach Classroom Observation Tool with Farwa Fatima, Andrew Ho, Carolina Melo Hurtado, Tracy Wilichowksi, and Adelle Pushparatnam. 2018. World Bank Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 8653. Washington, D.C.
The Measurement Crisis: An Assessment of How Countries Measure Classroom Practices with Julia Ladics, and Tracy Wilichowksi. 2018. (email me for a copy)
What Do Teachers Know and Do? Does It Matter? Evidence from Primary Schools in Africa with Tessa Bold, Deon Filmer, Gayle Martin, Christophe Rockmore, Brian Stacy, Jakob Svensson and Waly Wane. 2017. World Bank Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 7956. Washington, D.C.
Can Bottom-Up Institutional Reform Improve Service Delivery? 2014. IADB Working Paper.
Outcomes, Opportunity and Development (2012), joint with Ambar Narayan and J. Saavedra.
Books, Chapters and Reports
World Development Report 2017: Governance and The Law, joint with a World Bank Team headed by Luis Felipe Lopez Calva and Yongmei Zhou.The World Bank. Washington DC, US. 2017.
Open Government and Targeted Transparency, joint with with Juan Cruz Vieyra (Chapter One). Inter American Development Bank. Washington DC, US. 2012.
(In Spanish) Economic Polarization, Institutions and Conflict, joint with L. Gasparini, M. Horestein and S. Olivieri. Uqbar Editors, Cieplan Colection, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 2008.
Mozambique Education Service Delivery Indicators. 2015
The Learning Crisis in Afghanistan Learning Crisis: Results from the 2017 SABER Service Delivery Survey with Iva Trako, Anahita Hosseini Matin, Eema Masood and Mariana Viollaz. 2018.
Teacher Practices in Mindanao: Results of the Teach Classroom Observation Study with Farwa Fatima, Iva Trako, and Tracy Wilichowksi. 2018.