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I am a development economist who uses tools and insights from behavioural economics. My current projects focus on discrimination, social change, and human capital.
I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics. I recently spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, completed my PhD at the Paris School of Economics in 2024, and spent 2022-23 as a visiting scholar at MIT. I am a J-PAL Invited Researcher and a member of the NOVAFRICA group.
Research
Research
Working papers
Working papers
Silence to Solidarity: How Communication About a Minority Affects Discrimination
R&R, Journal of Political Economy
Winner of Weiss NEUDC Distinguished Paper 2023
[Questionnaires] [Archived Analyses]
Coverage: [VoxDev] [VoxTalks Economics] [Ideas of India Podcast] [World Bank] [Ideas for India] [NewsLaundry]
Menstrual Stigma, Hygiene, and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence from Madagascar with Karen Macours and Julieta Vera Rueda
[JPAL Summary] [FID] [VoxDev]
Psychological Mechanisms for Measuring Preferences and Beliefs
with Evan Friedman and Suanna Oh
[CESifo WP] [Questionnaire] [Questionnaire, Experiment 2]
Publications
Critical Periods in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development: Evidence from Weather Shocks in Indonesia [Ungated]
The Economic Journal, 2024
COVID-19 spread, detection, and dynamics in Bogota, Colombia
Nature Communications, 2021
with Rachid Laajaj et al.
Coverage: [Blu] [Caracol] [Caracol 2] [Nuevo Siglo]
Understanding how socioeconomic inequalities drive inequalities in COVID-19 infections
Scientific Reports, 2022
with Rachid Laajaj et al.
Coverage: [Espectador] [Blu]
Bits and bobs
Bits and bobs
dups - an R package for dealing with duplicates
trackr - an R package that helps you easily track the results of dplyr functions
qval - an R package that helps with multiple hypothesis testing by calculating FDR-adjusted p-values in the style of Anderson (2008)
ZenBot - a simple web app that generates customised guided meditations of any length
Longtermism - a framework outlining the tradeoff faced when trying to affect the long-run future
History of gay rights - a blog post outlining how the world became more accepting of homosexuality
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