Research
Peer-reviewed academic journals
The returns to international migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia migration lottery program (with Mushfiq Mobarak and Iffath Sharif)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 15(4), 353:88, October 2023.
Pre-print; Online Appendix; Data and code
Others: VoxDev article
World Bank Economic Review, 34 (1), 1:27, February 2020.
Death scares: How potential work-migrants infer mortality rate from migrant deaths?
Journal of Development Economics, 141, November 2019.
You get what you pay for: Schooling incentives and child labor (with Eric V. Edmonds)
Journal of Development Economics, 111, November 2014.
The impact of minimum age of employment regulation on child labor and schooling (with Eric V. Edmonds)
IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 1(1), 1:14, December 2012.
Reports and chapters
World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and Society (with Xavier Devictor, Quy-Toan Do, Caglar Ozden, et al.)
The World Bank. 2023.
Main messages. Overview. Full Report (download).
Additional materials including data and background papers.
Non-farm household enterprises in Cambodia - Moving out of the policy shadow (with Wendy Cunningham)
The World Bank. 2021.
Potential Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Support of Migrant Workers (with Harry Moroz and Mauro Testaverde)
The World Bank. 2020.
Improving the Integrated Household Database System for more effective social assistance in Mongolia (with Ludovico Carraro and Jorge Avalos)
The World Bank. 2020.
Improving the ID Poor Program: Insights from household survey data analysis and good practices (with Shonali Sen)
The World Bank. 2020.
Evaluating the impact of interventions to improve full immunization rates in Haryana, India (with Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, Suresh Dalpath, John Floretta, Matthew Jackson, Harini Kannan, and Anna Schrimpf)
3ie Impact Evaluation Report 126. 2020. Report. Policy Brief.
Cambodia’s Future Jobs: Linking to the Economy of Tomorrow (with Wendy Cunningham, Claire H. Hollweg, et al.)
The World Bank. 2019.
Migration and Remittances: The impacts of a government intermediated international migration program (with Iffath Sharif and Mushfiq Mobarak)
The World Bank. 2019. Policy Brief.
Independent child labor migration (with Eric V. Edmonds)
in International Handbook of the Economics of Migration, ed. By Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann, 2013
More and Better Jobs in South Asia (with R. Nayar, P. Gottret, P. Mitra, G. Betcherman, Y. Lee, I. Santos, and M. Dahal)
South Asia Development Matters, The World Bank, 2011.
Nepal Poverty Assessment (with Gaurav Datt, Dean M. Jolliffe)
Unpublished; 2011.
Migration and Remittances: Results of the Nepal Migration Survey 2009 (with G. Datt)
in Large-Scale Migration and Remittances in Nepal: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities, The
World Bank Report 55390-NP, June 2010
Working Papers
A deeper dive into the relationship between economic development and migration
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 10295, February 2023.
Selecting the most effective nudge: Evidence from a large-scale experiment on immunization (with Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, Suresh Dalpath, Esther Duflo, John Floretta, Matthew Jackson, Harini Kannan, Francine Loza, Anirudh Sankar, and Anna Schrimpf )
NBER Working Paper #28726. April 2021.
The impact of minimum wage hikes on employment and wages in Cambodia
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8839; May 2019.
Push and pull: A study of international migration from Nepal
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7965; February 2017. VoxDev article.
The impact of large-scale migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8232; November 2017.
Children’s work and independent child migration: A critical review (with Eric V. Edmonds)
Innocenti Working Papers, IWP-2009-19, UNICEF, December 2009.