Papers

Publications

Evaluating the Impacts of Access to a Digital Jobs Platform and Skills Training on Female Domestic Workers.  With S Anukriti, Maurizio Bussolo, Siddharth Sharma and Anaise Williams.  In the field.  Accepted, pre-results review, Journal of Development Economics.

Cross-Industry Interlinkages in Employment Growth:  Evidence from Brazil.  Review of Development Economics, 2022.  With Daniel Carvalho.

Narrowing the Gender Gap in Mobile Banking [Online Appendix].  With Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran and Abu Shonchoy.  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022.  [Financial Access Initiative Blog.]

Preparing for a Pandemic:  Accelerating Vaccine Availability [Online Appendix].  Joint with Susan Athey, Arthur Baker, Eric Budish, Juan Camilo Castillo, Rachel Glennerster, Scott Kominers, Michael Kremer, Canice Prendergast, Christopher Snyder, Alex Tabarrok, Brandon Joel Tan and Witold Wiecek. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2021.

Market Design to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccine Supply.  Joint with Amrita Ahuja, Susan Athey, Arthur Baker, Eric Budish, Juan Camilo Castillo, Tasneem Chipty, Rachel Glennerster, Scott Kominers, Michael Kremer, Greg Larson, Canice Prendergast, Christopher Snyder, Alex Tabarrok, Brandon Joel Tan and Witold Wiecek.  Science, 2021.  [Cited in the Economist 1; 2]

Migration, Externalities and the Diffusion of COVID-19 in South Asia. With Mahreen Mahmud, Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran and Abu Shonchoy.  Journal of Public Economics, 2021.  [Cited in World Bank South Asia Economic Focus; Financial Access Initiative blog; World Bank blog.]

Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age:  Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in Bangladesh [Web Appendix].  With Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran, Abu Shonchoy and Hassan Zaman.  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021.  [VoxDev column; Financial Access Initiative Blog.]

Tariff Evasion in Global Trade Data.  With Austin Drenski and Ross Hallren.  Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2019.

The Process is the Punishment:  Juror Demographics and Case Administration in State Courts [Web Appendix].  American Law and Economics Review, 2017.  [National Affairs Blog.]

Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility:  An Experimental Study in Zambia.  With Nava Ashraf and Erica Field.  American Economic Review, 2014.  [News article in Science; World Bank Development Impact Blog.]

Behavioral Biases and Firm Behavior:  Evidence from Kenyan Retail Shops.  With Michael Kremer, Jonathan Robinson and Olga Rostapshova.  American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2013.  [Financial Access Initiative Blog.]

Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines Against Neglected Diseases:  Estimating Costs and Effectiveness.  With Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, Ruth Levine and Heidi Williams.  Health Economics, 2007.  [Cited in Center for Global Development report, Making Markets for Vaccines.]

Small-Scale Variations in Seismic Anisotropy Near Kimberley, South Africa.  With Matthew J. Fouch, Paul Silver and David R. Bell.  Geophysical Journal International, 2004.

Working Papers

Selecting Experimental Sites for External Validity.  With Michael Gechter, Kei Hirano, Mahreen Mahmud, Orville Mondal, Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran and Abu Shonchoy.  April 2024. Under review.

Understanding Nutritional Inequality in South Asia.  With Caitlin Brown, Eeshani Kandpal and Anaise Williams.  March 2024.  Submitted.

Adoption of Mobile Banking Increases Assets Over Eight Years: Experimental Evidence from Migrant Households in Bangladesh.  With Mahreen Mahmud, Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran and Abu Shonchoy.  January 2023.  Draft coming soon.

The Social Meaning of Mobile Money:  Earmarking Reduces the Willingness to Spend in Migrant Households.  With Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran and Abu Shonchoy.  December 2023.  Resubmitted (2nd round), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

How Selling Online is Affecting Informal Firms in South Asia.  With Maurizio Bussolo, Akshay Dixit, Anne Golla, Ananya Kotia, Prema Narasimhan and Siddharth Sharma.  January 2023.  Revisions requested, Asian Development Review.  [World Bank Let's Talk Development Blog.]

Explaining the Gender Gap in Profits Among Entrepreneurs in Malawi.  With Dominique Duval-Diop, Jessica Heckert, Greg Seymour and Kathy Vaughn.  January 2022.  In preparation for submission.

Poverty and the Marginal Propensity to Spend:  Experimental Evidence from the U.S. Financial Diaries.  With Jonathan Morduch.  March 2017.

The Role of Sectoral Growth Patterns in Labor Market Development.  With F. Javier Arias Vazquez and David Newhouse.  Background paper, World Bank World Development Report on Jobs, September 2012.

Cognitive Skills and Youth Labor Market Outcomes.  With David Newhouse.  Background paper, World Bank World Development Report on Jobs, September 2012.

Selected Work in Progress

Multi-Country Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking and Migration in South Asia.  With Mahreen Mahmud, Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran and Abu Shonchoy.  In the field.

Evaluating Demand Side Constraints to Female Employment Among Firms in Pakistan through Experimental Provision of a Wage Subsidy.  With Maurizio Bussolo, Mahreen Mahmud, Nayantara Sarma and Anaise Williams.  Endline data collection completed.

Courts and Informality Across Countries.  With Daniel Li Chen and Peter Neis.