Working Papers
Blossoming Towns, with Menna Bishop and Niclas Moneke [pdf] submitted
Female Jobs and Fertility: Long-term Experimental Evidence from Ethiopian Factories, with Andreas Kotsadam, Janneke Pieters, Pauline Rossi, Espen Villanger, and Tigabu Getahun [pdf] Pre-Analysis Plan World Bank blog submitted
Engines of Empowerment: Cattle Tending, the Milking Machine, and Women in Politics, with Eva Forslund and Jaakko Meriläinen [pdf] submitted
The Fruits of Horticulture? Commercial Farming across Local Economies in Senegal, with Renate Hartwig, Christoph Kubitza, Regina Schnars, and Mohamadou Dieye [email for draft]
Publications
The Demand Side of Africa's Demographic Transition: Desired Fertility, Wealth, and Jobs [pdf]
forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources
Chat Over Coffee? Diffusion of Agronomic Practices and Market Spillovers in Rwanda, with Esther Duflo, Daniel Keniston, and Tavneet Suri [pdf]
Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 182, April 2026, 103733. Online Appendix Replication package VoxDev
A Mother’s Voice: Impacts of Spousal Communication Training on Child Health Investments, with Martina Björkman Nyqvist and Seema Jayachandran [pdf]
Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 168, May 2024, 103263. Online Appendix Replication package VoxDev J-PAL summary
Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa, with Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, and Andrea Smurra [pdf]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2022, 36(1): 81-100.
Selected Work in Progress
The Impacts of Migration Channel on Expected Benefits and Migration Intentions in Ethiopia, with Morgan Hardy, Anne Krahn, and Christian Meyer
Long-term Fertility Responses to Climate Change: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, with Pauline Rossi, Yogita Shamdasani, Tom Vogl, and Yun Xiao
Female Access to Male-dominated Employment in Senegal, with Gharad Bryan, Marie Christelle Mabeu, Jon de Quidt, and Mariajose Silva-Vargas AEA RCT Registry Pre-Analysis Plan J-PAL summary
MNEs in Africa, with Jonas Hjort, Tommaso Sonno, and Luca Tommasi
Book Chapters
Technology and Development, with Menna Bishop and Robin Burgess (2023). In: Introduction to Development Engineering edited by Temina Madon, Ashok Gadgil, Richard Anderson, Lorenzo Casaburi, Kenneth Lee, and Arman Rezaee, published by Springer. p.17-57. [pdf] Book PDF
Resting
The Impacts of Free Primary Education on Female Employment in four sub-Saharan African countries. August 2021. [pdf]