Working papers

[1]  Posh spice or scary spice? The impacts of Madagascar's vanilla boom on household well-being (with Chris Boone and David Sahn) 

[2]  Unpacking the Links between Conflict and Child Welfare: Evidence from a Foreign Insurgency (with Larissa Nawo and Huyk Harry Son) HiCN Working paper  353. Revise and Resubmit: Economic Development and Cultural Change.

[3] A Geometric Analysis of Technological Heterogeneity in the Agricultural Sector: Evidence from Maize in Tanzania (with Karim Nchare, Marcel Vitouley & Yanyan Liu) USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab Research Paper 12. January 2022.

Journal Publications 

[4]  Starting Strong: Investigating the Importance of Early Academic Performance for Adult Human Capital  (with David Sahn and Naveen Sunder) Journal of African Economies, September 2023
Online Appendix  Earlier version: IZA Discussion paper No. 11550. Coverage: World Bank blog 

[5] The effects of crime and violence on food insecurity and consumption in Nigeria  (with Abul Azad)  Food Policy, January 2023
Suppl1 Suppl2  Earlier versions: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9019 [link],  HiCN Working paper 314. Coverage: Econthatmatters

[6] Ethnic Digital Divide? Evidence on Mobile Phone Adoption  Applied Economics, January 2023. 
Working paper version. Coverage: #DIYCSAE 2020 Twitter 

[7]  Development programs, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from an insurgency in India (with Saurabh Singhal & Divya Tuteja)
World Development June 2020, OPEN ACCESS
Coverage: WIDER Angle, Econthatmatters

[8] Can Internet Improve Agricultural Production? Evidence from Viet Nam (with Finn Tarp) Agricultural Economics, November 2019, OPEN ACCESS

Book Chapters & Other Publications 

[9] Information and communication technology. In: F. Tarp (ed.) Growth, Structural Transformation and Rural Change in Viet Nam: A Rising Dragon on the Move. Oxford University Press (February 2017) 

[10] R&D-Based Endogenous Growth in Finland – A Comparative Study on the Semi-Endogenous and the Schumpeterian Growth Models. University of Helsinki Master thesis 2012

Reports 

Africa's Pulse 28: Publication: Africa’s Pulse, No. 28, October 2023: Delivering Growth to People through Better Jobs  Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. June 2023. (with Andrew L. Dabalen, Cesar Calderon, Megumi Kubota, Vijdan Korman, Nicholas Wooley, and Ayan Qu). 

Climate Risks, Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience in Nepal Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. June 2023. (with Mattia Amadio, Arnold Patrick Behrer, Lander Bosch, Nandini
Krishnan & Giuseppe Molinario)

An Uneven Playing Field : Sub-National Disparities in Human Opportunity in Nepal. Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. February 2023 (with Nandini Krishnan)

Risks to Poverty, Vulnerability, and Inequality from COVID-19 : Nepal Light Poverty Assessment. Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. September 2021. (with Nethra Palaniswamy et al.)

Conflict and Violence in Nigeria : Results from the North East, North Central, and South South Zones . Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group.  October 2018 (with Abul Azad And Emily Crawford)

Food Insecurity in Conflict Affected Regions in Nigeria : Results from the North East, North Central, and South South Zones. Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group.  October 2018 (with Abul Azad)

Blog Posts & General Interest 

Ensuring a Resilient and Inclusive COVID-19 Recovery in Nepal World Bank blog (with Nishtha Kochhar, Nethra Palaniswamy & Jui Shrestha)

The Causes and Consequences of Conflict and Violence | CSAE 2019 Recap Economics That Really Matters blog post, April 1, 2019 (with Jeffrey Bloem) 

Lessons on the importance of education supply and demand | NEUDC 2018 Economics That Really Matters blog post, November 26, 2018 (with Germán Reyes) 

Behavioral economics inside and outside of the lab | NEUDC 2018  Economics That Really Matters blog post, November 21, 2018 (with Germán Reyes)