Research

Publications

• Using Schooling Decisions to Estimate the Elasticity of Marginal Utility with respect to Consumption, with William Dodds 

Journal of Public Economics, 2023. Accepted Manuscript with Appendices.

• Can personalized digital counseling improve consumer search for modern contraceptive methods?, with Susan Athey, Vitor Hadad, Julian C. Jamison, Berk Özler, Luca Parisotto, and Julius Dohbit Sama

Science Advances, 2023. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9777.

• Using Labor Supply Elasticities to Learn About Income Inequality: The Role of Productivities vs Preferences, with William Dodds

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9102

• The Targeting Benefit of Conditional Cash Transfers, with William Dodds

Journal of Public Economics, 2021. Accepted Manuscript with Appendices, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9101

• Optimal Taxation with Multiple Dimensions of Heterogeneity, with William Dodds

Journal of Public Economics, 2021. Accepted Manuscript with Appendices, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9572

• The Role of Income Inequality for Poverty Reduction 

The World Bank Economic Review, 2022. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9409

• Improving the Well-being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries, with Berk Özler.  

The World Bank Research Observer, 2022.

• Does Selling State Silver Generate Private Gold? Neighbourhood Impacts of State House Sales, with Arthur Grimes and Steve Stillman

Urban Studies, 2014. 

Working Papers and Work in Progress

• Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Família, with William Dodds and Juan Rios (Conditional Accept at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy)

• A General Theory of Inverse Welfare Functions, with William Dodds

• Optimal Policy Reforms, with William Dodds and Juan Rios

• Estimating the Welfare Impact of Frictions Using Observable Elasticities, with William Dodds and Juan Rios