[1] Do Bilateral Labor Agreements Increase Migration? Global Evidence from 1960 to 2020 World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 11000 (with Samik Adhikari, Narcisse Cha’ngom and Maheshwor Shrestha) Let's Talk Development blog Revise and Resubmit: Journal of Development Economics.
[2] Posh spice or scary spice? The impacts of Madagascar's vanilla boom on household well-being (with Chris Boone and David Sahn) Revise and Resubmit: The World Bank Economic Review.
[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.
[4] Unpacking the Links between Conflict and Child Welfare: Evidence from a Foreign Insurgency (with Larissa Nawo and Huyk Harry Son) HiCN Working paper 353. Accepted for Publication: Economic Development and Cultural Change.
[5] 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
[6] 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
[7] Ethnic Digital Divide? Evidence on Mobile Phone Adoption Applied Economics, January 2023.
Working paper version. Coverage: #DIYCSAE 2020 Twitter
[8] 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
[9] Can Internet Improve Agricultural Production? Evidence from Viet Nam (with Finn Tarp) Agricultural Economics, November 2019, OPEN ACCESS
Migration: Africa’s Untapped Potential. Africa Development Forum series. © World Bank, Washington, DC. (with Mohamed Abdel Jelil, Samik Adhikari Quy-Toan Do, Federica Marzo, Olive Nsababera, Ganesh Seshan and Maheshwor Shrestha). August 2025. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
Africa's Pulse, No. 30, October 2024: Transforming Education for Inclusive Growth Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. October 2024. (contributor).
Africa’s Pulse, No. 28, October 2023: Delivering Growth to People through Better Jobs Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. October 2023. (contributor).
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)
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)
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
Unlocking migration’s potential: Five key insights on Bilateral Labor Agreements (BLAs) Let's Talk Development blog (with Samik Adhikari, Narcisse Cha’ngom and Maheshwor Shrestha)
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)