Research

Working Papers 

(2023) "The Role of Fun in the Education Production Function: A Randomized Controlled Trial" with Isabella Dobrescu, Scott French, Richard Holden, Jonathan Lim, Alberto Motta, and Akshay Shankar.

(2022) "It Makes a Village: Allomaternal Care and Prosociality" with Alessandra Cassar, Alejandrina Cristia, and Pauline Grosjean.

(2022) "Cultural Context in Standardized Tests" with Isabella Dobrescu, Richard Holden, Alberto Motta, Adrian Piccoli, and Philip Roberts.

(2022) "The power of narratives: Anti-Black violence in the US South" with Federico Masera and Michele Rosenberg.

Publications

(2023) "Overlapping land rights and deforestation in Uganda: 20 years of evidence," with Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Anne Bartlett, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Hannah K. Friedrich, Paulo J.  Murillo-Sandoval, and Rosemary Isoto in Global Environmental Change, 82, 102701.

(2023) "When the message hurts: The unintended impacts of nudges on saving " with Alin Andries in Journal of Comparative Economics,  51(2): 439-456.

(2022) "The impacts of  COVID-related economic shocks on household mental health in Pakistan" with Victoria Baranov, Pauline Grosjean, and Fatima Jamal Khan in Health Economics, 31(10): 2208-2228.

(2022) "Women's Labor Force Participation and Household Technology" with Gautam Bose and Tarun Jain in European Economic Review, 147: 104181.

(2022) "Towards a repair research agenda for off-grid solar e-waste in the Global South" with Paul G. Munro, Shanil Samarakoon, Ulrich E. Hansen, Matthew Kearnes, Anna Bruce, Jamie Cross,  and Colleen Zalengera in Nature Energy Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01103-9

(2020) “Historical Legacies in Savings: Evidence from Romania,” in Journal of Comparative Economics, 48(1): 76-99.

(2019) “Assessing the direct and spillover effects of shocks to refugee remittances" with Jennifer Alix-Garcia and Anne Bartlett in World Development, 121: 63-74.

(2018)  “Do Refugee Camps Help or Hurt Hosts? The Case of Kakuma," with Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Anne Bartlett, Harun Onder, and Apurva Sanghi in Journal of Development Economics, 130: 66-83.

Public Coverage: 

• • • •  VoxDev

      • UNSW UNSOMINA public lecture series

      • Yale Refugee Program Seminar

(2018) “Tariffs and Trees: The Effects of the Austro-Hungarian Customs Union on Specialization and Land Use Change,” with Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Volker Radeloff, and Jacek Kozak in Journal of Economic History, 78(4): 1142-1178.

(2018) “Cultural Barriers to Market Integration: Evidence from 19th Century Austria” in Journal of Comparative Economics, 46(4): 1122-1145.

(2015) “Conservation and Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: the Impacts of Warfare, Mining, & Protected Areas on Deforestation,” with Van Butsic, Matthias Baumann, Anja Shortland, and Tobias Kuemmerle in Biological Conservation, 191: 266-73. 

(2013) “Keeping the Doctor Away: Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products,” with Jennifer Meredith, Jonathan Robinson, and Bruce Wydick in Journal of Development Economics, 105: 196-210.

Funding (selected)

(2020) Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA): $399,350

(2019)  Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (with Jennifer Alix-Garcia and Anne Bartlett) : $579,239

Awards

(2020) Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia