Papers

Developing Hope Among Impoverished Children: Using Child Self-Portraits to Measure Poverty Program Impacts (with Paul Glewwe and Bruce Wydick)

Journal of Human Resources, Spring 2018.

[final draft] [online appendix] [non-technical summary] [mention in NY Times]

Occupation Aspirations, Education Investment, and Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from Indian Adolescents

World Development, November 2019.

[final draft] [code]

Previous version titled "The Aspirations Gap and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Indian Adolescents" (April 2017 version)

The Effects of Education on Financial Outcomes: Evidence from Kenya (with Kehinde Ajayi)

Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 2020.

[final draft] [code]

When the wind doesn’t blow: The limits of intermittent resources and battery storage in the decarbonization of New England’s power system under increased electrification (with A. Joseph Cavicchi)

The Electricity Journal, December 2020.

Developing Educational and Vocational Aspirations through International Child Sponsorship: Evidence from Kenya, Indonesia, and Mexico (with Paul Glewwe, Daniel Prudencio, and Bruce Wydick)

World Development, April 2021

[final draft]

Ancestral Roots of Locus of Control [online appendix]

Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Economic Growth.