Aletheia Donald

Publications

The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply (with Eliana Carranza, Florian Grosset and Supreet Kaur) [PDF]. Forthcoming, Econometrica. 

In It to Win It? Self-Esteem and Income-Earning among Couples (with Ioana Botea and Léa Rouanet) [PDF]. The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Measuring Women's Agency (with Jeannie Annan, Kathryn Falb, Markus Goldstein and Gayatri Koolwal) [PDF]. Feminist Economics. 

Taking Power: Women’s empowerment and household Well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Jeannie Annan, Markus Goldstein, Paula Gonzalez Martinez and Gayatri Koolwal) [PDF]. World Development. 

Assortative matching in Africa: Evidence from rural Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, and Malawi (with Claire Boxho, Markus Goldstein, Joao Montalvao, Léa Rouanet) [PDF]. Economics Letters. 

Sharing Responsibility through Joint Decisionmaking and Implications for Intimate-Partner Violence: Evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African countries (with Cheryl Doss, Markus Goldstein and Sakshi Gupta) [PDF]. The Review of Economics of the Household. 

Gender differences in agricultural productivity in Côte d'Ivoire: Distribution, drivers, and changes over time (with Gabriel Lawin and Léa Rouanet) [PDF] [Policy Brief]. The Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Family Structure and Childcare in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Sara Lowes and Julia Vaillant).  American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings. [PDF]. 

Working Papers

When Does Decision-Making Reflect Agency? Evidence from the Rural Philippines (with Aries Arugay, Forest Jarvis, Hillary Johnson and Aletheia Valenciano). [PDF]. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Development Studies. 

Steered Away from the Fields: Short-Term Impacts of Oxen on Agricultural Production and Intra-Household Labor Supply (with Andrew Brudevold-Newman and Léa Rouanet) [PDF]. 

Experimental Evidence on Rural Childcare Provision (with Sara Lowes and Julia Vaillant) [PDF]. 

Complementarities in Labor Supply (with Florian Grosset) [PDF]. 

The Fertility Impacts of Development Programs (with Tricia Koroknay-Palicz, Markus Goldstein and Mathilde Sage) [PDF] [VoxDev coverage]. 

Deciding not to Decide: When Is There Power in Not Deciding? (with Marya Hillesland, Cheryl Doss, Serena Masino, Martina Querejeta, Greg Seymour and Clare Clingain) [PDF]. 

Lost in Interpretation: Why Spouses Disagree on Who Makes Decisions (with Forest Jarvis, Hillary Johnson, Sundas Liaqat and Elizaveta Perova) [PDF]. 

Gender Bias in SME Lending: Experimental Evidence from Turkey (with Salman Alibhai, Markus Goldstein, Alper Ahmet Oguz, Alexander Pankov, Francesco Strobbe) [PDF]. 

Two Heads are Better than One: Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire (with Markus Goldstein and Léa Rouanet) [PDF] [Policy Brief] [VoxDev coverage]. 

Explaining Gender Differences in Economic Outcomes in Burkina Faso (with TM Tonmoy Islam and Anja Robakowski) [PDF]. 

Policy Briefs and Reports

Women's Empowerment, Population Dynamics, and Socioeconomic Development (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) [PDF]. 

Working Under Pressure: Improving Labor Productivity through Financial Innovation (with Eliana Carranza, Florian Grosset and Supreet Kaur) [PDF].

What’s Mine is Yours: Pilot Evidence from a Randomized Impact Evaluation on Property Rights and Women’s Empowerment in Côte d’Ivoire (with Markus Goldstein, Alexandra Hartman, Eliana La Ferrara, Michael O'Sullivan and Mercedes Stickler) [PDF]. 

Time and money: a study of labor constraints for female cotton producers in Côte d’Ivoire (with Eliana Carranza, Rachel Jones and Léa Rouanet) [PDF]. 

Caring about Carework: Lifting constraints to the productivity of women farmers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (with Julia Vaillant, Francisco Campos and Maria Emilia Cucagna) [PDF]. 

The Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicators : Developing a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures (with Markus Goldstein) [PDF]. 

Economic Impacts of Gender Inequality in Niger [PDF]. 

Women's Economic Empowerment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo : Obstacles and Opportunities [PDF]. 

Sustaining High, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Post COVID-19 : A World Bank Group Input to the Côte d’Ivoire 2030 Development Strategy [PDF]. 

Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment in Payment Projects: A Short Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures [PDF]. 

Selected Work in Progress

The gender gap in financing and third-order inference: Experimental Evidence from Turkey 

Last Thoughts: What Causes Measurement Bias in Subjective-Wellbeing? (with Thomas Bossuroy and Julia Vaillant)

Marriage and Property Rights (with Alexandra Hartman, Eliana La Ferrara, Michael O'Sullivan and Alessandra Voena)

The Effects of Formalizing Customary Land Rights on Landowners and Land Users: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire (with Andrea Caflisch, Alexandra Hartman, Michael O'Sullivan, Oumar Sory and Gabriel Tourek)

Strengthening Adolescent Girls’ Land  Rights Through Public Service Delivery in Senegal (with Rossella Calvi and Joao Montalvao)

Measuring Agency Through Psychological Constructs in Lower-Income Settings (with Clare Clingain and Maria Hernandez-de-Benito)

Gender and Cognitive Labor in Rural Ethiopia (with Andrew Brudevold-Newman, Clara Delavallade and Paula Gonzalez)

Household-level impacts of strengthening women's financial control: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire (with Rajdev Braur)

Unpacking Willingness to Pay as a Measure of Women’s Empowerment  (with Berber Kramer and Akanksha Vardani)

Gender Disparities in African Agriculture and Successful Remedial Interventions (with Kibrom Tafere)

Other 

My time-series analysis of the psychological booms and busts of a research assistant career can be found here.