Publications
Publications
Transfers, Information and Management Advice: Direct Effects and Complementarities in Malawi (with Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton). Journal of Development Economics, January 2026. Previous version: Agricultural Support Services: Direct Effects, Complementarities, and Time Dynamics, IFPRI Discussion Paper 01725.
Increasing Women’s Empowerment: Evaluating Two Interventions in Uganda (with Kelly Jones and Michael O’Sullivan). Journal of Development Economics, January 2026. Previous version: IZA Discussion Paper 14861.
Rural Labor Supply and Recall Window Sensitivity (with Sylvan Herskowitz and Mywish Maredia). World Bank Economic Review, accepted.
The Unmet Financial Needs of Intermediary Firms within Agri-food Value Chains in Uganda and Bangladesh (with Annet Adong, Jeffrey R. Bloem, Alan de Brauw, Sylvan Herskowitz, AHM Saiful Islam, and Julia Wagner). Food Policy. Vol. 132, April 2025.
Impact of Food System Interventions to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Intake Among Urban Adults in Nigeria and Vietnam (with Giulia Pastori et al.). Food Security. Vol. 17, April 2025, pp. 641-655.
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
Fragility and Conflict: Addressing Crises and Building Resilient Food Systems (with Kibrom Abay, Jeffrey Bloem, Katrina Kosec, and Khalid Siddig). Global Food Policy Report 2025.
Measuring women's empowerment in fragile settings: Practical guidance and notes from the field (with Jeffrey Bloem and co-authors).
Gender and Age Employment Gaps within Agrifood Value Chains in Bangladesh and Uganda (with Jeffrey Bloem and Julia Wagner). IFPRI Issue Brief, Dec. 2024.
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.