Ongoing Research
Sharing is Costly? Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Shared Electricity Metering in Ghana
with [Amin Karimu, Edward Asiedu, and Salome Amuakwa-Mensah]We provide experimental evidence on how shared electricity metering affects household's incentives to conserve energy and implications for welfare.Payments to Resolve Inequalities and Climate Change (PRICE)with [Francis Annan, Stefano Carattini, Patrick Asuming]A pilot RCT to study the replacement of fuel subsidies to fishermen in Ghana with an unconditional transfer program
Energy Demand during a Pandemic: Evidence from Ghana and Rwanda with [Aimable Nsabimana, James Dzansi, and Alexandre nshunguyinka We study how the COVID pandemic and associated energy subsidies influenced the consumption behavior of firms and households in two African countries.
FinTech Adoption in Electricity MarketsLeveraging a unique administrative dataset on electricity customers from Rwanda, we study how the adoption of mobile money payment systems and how it influence behavior of credit constrained households.
Local Industrial Shocks and Human Capital AccumulationLeveraging unique administrative test scores data on over 1.5 million primary school students over an 8-year period, we study the effect of the government-induced rapid expansion of the coffee mills in Rwanda in the 2000s on student performance in a national exam
Agricultural Windfalls and Rural ElectrificationLeveraging a unique administrative dataset on electricity customers from Rwanda, we study how income shocks from Coffee production influence demand for electricity connection and consumption among rural households.