Selected Articles

Selected Articles

Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: How do Cash Transfers Affect Non-Eligibles' Consumption?, with M. Angelucci, American Economic Review,  2009, 99(1): 486-508 

 Family Networks and School Enrollment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment, with M. Angelucci, M. Rangel, and I. Rasul, Journal of Public Economics, April 2010, Vol. 94, Issue 3-4.  

Identification of Social Interactions through Partially Overlapping Peer Groups, with M. Pellizzari and Silvia Redaelli, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2(2): 241-75

Class-size and Class Heterogeneity, with M. Pellizzari and W.G. Woolston, Journal of the European Economic Association,  2012, 10(4):  795–830

Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom, with M. Pellizzari, Economic Journal, 2014, 124(579): 917-53.  Royal Economic Society Prize 2014

Consumption and Investment in Resource Pooling Family Networks, with M. Angelucci and I. Rasul, Economic Journal, 2018, 128(615): 2613-51

The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers, with J. Cunha and S. Jayachandran, Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86(1): 240-81

Consumption Networks Effects, with A. Frideriksen and L. Pistaferri, Review of Economic Studies, 2020, vol 87(1), pp. 130-163

[Non-technical summary in VOXEU]

Credit Growth and the Financial Crisis: A New Narrative, with S. Albanesi and J. Nosal, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022, 132: 118-139.

The Extension of Credit with Non-Exclusive Contracts and Sequential Banking Externalities, with A. Drenik, and E. Seira, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, vol 15(1): 233-271. [Winner of the 2020 Banamex Prize]

Born to Be (Sub)Prime: An Exploratory Analysis, with H. Bach, P. Campa, J. Nosal, and D. Pietrobon, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023, 113: 166-71.

Life after (Soft) Default, with C. Naguib, European Economic Review, 167, 2024, 104793.