Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications:
Financial Access of Midstream Agricultural Firms in Africa: Evidence from the LSMS-ISA and World Bank Enterprise Surveys (with Alan de Brauw, Sylvan Herskowitz, and Cristhian Pulido). Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, December 2024.
Experimental measures of intra-household resource control (with Kelly Jones and María P. Recalde). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, November 2024. Previous version: Measurement of Intra-household Resource Control: Exploring the Validity of Experimental Measures, IFPRI Discussion Paper 01984.
Cash Transfers and Women’s Agency: Evidence from Pakistan’s BISP Program (with Alan de Brauw). Economic Development and Cultural Change, accepted for publication. Previous version: The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Women’s Empowerment: Learning from Pakistan’s BISP Program, World Bank Social Protection and Labor Discussion Paper 1702.
Fruit and Vegetable Intake of Females Before, During, and After Introduction of 3 Bundled Food System Interventions in Urban Vietnam and Nigeria (with Giulia Pastori et al.). Current Developments in Nutrition, 2024.
Finance Needs of the Agricultural Midstream (with Alan de Brauw, Sylvan Herskowitz, and Cristhian Pulido). Food Policy, November 2023.
Increasing the Adoption of Conservation Agriculture: A Framed Field Experiment in Northern Ghana (with Alan de Brauw and Mike Murphy). Agricultural Economics, September 2023. Previous version: IFPRI Discussion Paper 01932.
Spousal Concordance in Joint and Separate Households: Survey Evidence from Nepal (with Cheryl Doss, Caitlin Kieran, and Simone Passarelli). World Development, March 2022.
Are We Done Yet? Response Fatigue and Rural Livelihoods (with Sylvan Herskowitz and Mywish Maredia). Journal of Development Economics, November 2021.
Follow the Leader? A Field Experiment on Social Influence (with Susan Godlonton and María P. Recalde). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, August 2021.
Earned and Unearned Income: Experimental Evidence on Expenditures and Labor Supply in Malawi (with Susan Godlonton). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, July 2021.
Facilitating Women’s Access to an Economic Empowerment Initiative: Evidence from Uganda (with Kelly Jones and Michael O’Sullivan). World Development, February 2021.
He Says, She Says: Spousal Disagreement in Survey Measures of Bargaining Power (with Cheryl Doss, Caitlin Kieran, and Simone Passarelli). Economic Development and Cultural Change, January 2021.
Cash Transfers and Management Advice for Agriculture: Evidence from Senegal (with Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton). World Bank Economic Review, October 2020.
Measuring Postharvest Losses at the Farm Level in Malawi (with Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton). Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. January 2018.
Winner of the 2018 AARES-Wiley Blackwell Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics Best Paper Award
Bargaining with Grandma: The Impact of the South African Pension on Household Decision Making. Journal of Human Resources, Fall 2016.
Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador (with Diego Aycinena and Dean Yang). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2015.
Don't Tell on Me: Experimental Evidence of Asymmetric Information in Transnational Households. Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 113, March 2015.
Radio interview on BBC World Service World Hacks program
Other Publications:
Measuring women's empowerment in fragile settings: Practical guidance and notes from the field (with Jeffrey Bloem and co-authors).
Empowering Women to Engage in Commercial Agriculture (with Kelly Jones and Michael O'Sullivan). AEA: Papers & Proceedings, May 2022.
Tightening Borders and Threats to Food Security (with Alan de Brauw). Global Food Policy Report 2018.