Research

Ala Archa National Park, Kyrgyzstan

Research interests

Applied microeconometrics, policy evaluation, health, labour, migration, social protection

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Publications

Earthquakes and mental health (with Luisito Bertinelli and Eric Strobl), World Development, 2023, Volume 169, 106283 

Return migration and self-employment: is there a 'jack-of-all-trades' effect? Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, Volume 74, Issue 1, pp. 62-84

Publicly provided healthcare and migration, Economics & Human Biology, 2020, Volume 39, 100924

Work in progress

School-age exposure to conditional cash transfers and adult mental health (with Philipp Hessel)

Updated version of Escuela de Gobierno Alberto Lleras Camargo Working Paper No. 84

Panic? Probing Angst over Immigration and Crime (with Sergio Parra-Cely)

Updated version of DEM Discussion Paper No. 2021-04

Cash transfers and youth mental health: Improving behaviour but feeling no better (with Mauricio Avendaño, Yadira Diaz and Philipp Hessel)

Female mayors and child health (with Philipp Hessel)

Retargeting an anti-poverty cash transfer increases intimate partner violence (with Sergio Parra-Cely)

Measuring social norms towards working women in Tunisia: Direct and indirect methods and the role of financial incentives in reducing misreporting  (with Micheline Goedhuys, Eleonora  Nillesen and Ann-Kristin Reitmann)

Pre-analysis plan registered at the Open Science Framework

Updated version of AFD Research Papers No. 304 

Lunatics (with Luisito Bertinelli, Bephyer Parey, Nekeisha Spencer, and Eric Strobl)  

Commissioned reports

Measuring the impact on gender of a water project in Madagascar – Baseline findings (2025) (with Eleonora Nillesen, included Micheline Goedhuys, Ann-Kristin Reitman, Tatiana Goetghebuer, Jeroen Peers, and Ana Karen Diaz Mendez)

Evaluation d'impact du Programme de Réhabilitation et d'Intégration des Quartiers d'Habitation (PRIQH 2) en Tunisie - Rapport de la collecte de la première vague de données (données baseline) (2023) (with Micheline Goedhuys and Eleonora Nillesen) 

Women’s informal labor market participation in Ecuador (2022) (with Wladimir Zanoni and Maria Laura Oliveri)

IDB Technical Note No. IDB-TN-2617 

Evaluability study of the ‘Lake Kivu Inland Water Transport Project’ (DRIVEproject DR20RW01A) (2020) (with Micheline Goedhuys and Nico van der Windt)

Evaluation d'impact du Programme de Réhabilitation et d'Intégration des Quartiers d'Habitation (PRIQH 2) enTunisie – Protocole d’évaluation (2020) (with Micheline Goedhuys, Samy Kallel, and Eleonora Nillesen) 

Patterns of migration in the European Union (2019) (with Veronika Fajth, Katrin Marchand, Melissa Siegel, and Zachary Strain
2019 H2020 REMINDER Working Paper and associated publicly available data set of existing databases on migration in the European Union