Blogposts

"Six Reflections on Doing Cost-Effectiveness Analysis" October 2025 (link)

"Planning to Conduct A/B Tests on Your Social Sector Program?" May 2025 (link)

"Interactive Visualizations of the Luminos RCT Results" (with Mico Rudasingwa and Ewoud Nijhof). IDinsight Blog, January 2024 (link)

"Generating Meaningful Insights When Your RCT Design is Upended" (with Michael Sebele and Mtise Mwanza). IDinsight Blog, March 2023 (link)

"The Future of Results-Based Funding" (with Dianne Calvi and Avnish Gungadurdoss). The Center for Effective Philanthropy Blog, February 2023 (part 1, part 2)

"A Look Into Results of the Village Enterprise Development Impact Bond Evaluation" (with Winfred Kananu Ntonjira, Christy Lazicky, Frida Njogu-Ndongwe, and Miguel Angel Jimenez Gallardo). IDinsight Blog, March 2022 (link) 

"School Closures and Learning Loss in West Africa" (with Zainab Amjad, Sokhna Mously Fall, Miguel Angel Jimenez Gallardo, Erika Caballero, and Frida Njogu-Ndongwe). IDinsight Blog, August 2021 (link)

"What’s In A Name: Combining Datasets When Unique Identifiers Are Missing" (with Ruchika Joshi and Jeenu Thomas). IDinsight Blog, October 2020 (part 1, part 2)

"Voter Rolls Can Be Cheaper and Faster for Sampling in India. But Are They Accurate?" (with Ruchika Joshi, Karan Nagpal, and Andrew Fraker). IDinsight Blog, October 2020 (link)

"When to Collect Baseline Data; and When Not To." IDinsight Blog, September 2020 (part 1, part 2)

"Bridging the Youth Employment Skills Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa" (with Rebecca Bier). IDinsight Blog, March 2020 (link)

"Did You Wash Your Hands?" IDinsight Blog, November 2019 (part 1, part 2)

"Right Tool, Right Time: Statistical Software at IDinsight" (with Ishita Batra, Krishanu Chakraborty, Siobhan McDonough, Andrés L. Parrado, and Monica Hersher). IDinsight Blog, July 2019 (link)

"Four Tips on Using Machine Learning for Social Good" (with Ben Brockman, Andrew Fraker, and Neil Buddy Shah). IDinsight Blog, May 2019 (link)

IDinsight Data for Decisions Bootcamp: free self-paced course on designing and running quantitative social science research studies. (link)

"Can Machine Learning Double Your Social Impact?" (with Ben Brockman, Andrew Fraker, and Buddy Shah). Stanford Social Innovation Review, February 20, 2019. (article)

"The Great DIB-ate: Measurement for Development Impact Bonds" (with Buddy Shah and Kate Sturla). Stanford Social Innovation Review, November 21, 2018. (article)

"New Evidence in Governance" (with Rohini Pande). Prepared for the Asian Development Bank a a Special Evaluation Study on Enhancing Good Governance, June 2013.

"Horticulture Exports and African Development" (with Stephen S. Golub). Prepared for the United National Conference on Trade and Development, November 2008.