Publications, Working Papers, and Work in Progress

Mental Health

The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India, with Daniel Bennett,  American Economic Review, 114(1), 169-98, January 2024. [Online Appendix]

Depression, Poverty, and Economic Shocks: Evidence from India, with Daniel Bennett,  American Economic Review P&P,  May 2024.

Depression, Pharmacotherapy, and the Demand for a Novel Health Product, with Daniel Bennett.

Productivity and Choice Under Stress: Are Men and Women Different?, with Karina Cordova. 

Marriage Market

Assortative Matching Under Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Malawi, with Daniel Bennett, American Economic Review P&P, May 2017, 107(5).

Adverse Selection in the Marriage Market: HIV testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi, with Daniel Bennett, The Review of Economic Studies, 88(5), 2119-2148, October 2021. Here are the slides.

Social Interactions and Spillover Effects

Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: How do Cash Injections Affect Ineligibles' Consumption?, with Giacomo De Giorgi, American Economic Review, 99(1), March 2009.

Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks, with Giacomo De Giorgi, Marcos Rangel, and Imran Rasul, B.E Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, (9)1, Article 44, October 2009.

Family networks and school enrollment: evidence from a randomized social experiment, with Giacomo De Giorgi, Marcos Rangel, and Imran Rasul, Journal of Public Economics, 94(3-4), April 2010.

Extended family networks in rural Mexico: a descriptive analysis, with Giacomo De Giorgi, Marcos Rangel, and Imran Rasul, Institutional Microeconomics of Development, edited by Timothy Besley and Raji Jayaraman, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010. 

Program evaluation and spillover effects, with Vincenzo Di Maro, Journal of Development Effectiveness, 8(1), 22-43, 2016. 

Consumption and investment in resource-pooling family networks, with Giacomo De Giorgi and Imran Rasul, The Economic Journal, November 2018, Vol. 128, pp 2613-2651 . 

Incentives and unintended consequences: Spillover effects in food choice, with Silvia Prina, Heather Royer, and Anya Samek, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 11(4), 66-95, November 2019. Appendix here.

Spillover effects of micro-credit in Mexico, with Tim Conley, Dean Karlan, and Jon Zinman.

Gender and Household Behavior with Financial Market Imperfections

Love on the rocks: Domestic Violence and Alcohol Abuse in Rural Mexico, B.E Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 8(1), Article 43, 2008. 

Oportunidades: program effects on consumption, low participation, and methodological issues, with Orazio Attanasio, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 57:3, April 2009.

The Impact of Oportunidades on Consumption, Savings, Assets, and Transfers, with Orazio Attanasio and Vincenzo Di Maro, Fiscal Studies, 33(3), September 2012.

The demand for food of poor urban Mexican households: understanding policy impacts using structural models, with Orazio Attanasio, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5(1), February 2013.

Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco, with Dean Karlan, and Jon Zinman, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(1), January 2015.

Women Empowerment Programs and Intimate Partner Violence, with Rachel Heath, American Economic Review P&P, May 2020.

Heterogeneity and aggregation: testing for efficiency in intra-household allocation, with Robert Garlick.

Transitory Income Changes and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Mexico, with Carlos Chiapa, Silvia Prina, and Irvin Rojas, Journal of Public Economics, 230, 105013, February 2024.

Multifaceted Programs Targeting Women in Fragile Settings: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo, with Rachel Heath and Eva Noble,  Journal of Development Economics, 164, 103-146, September 2023.

Play to Win: High Stakes and Feedback  Have Ambiguous Effects on the Gender Gap in Winning, with Prachi Jain, September 2023.

Migration

 U.S. Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 60(2), January 2012.

Conditional cash transfer programs, credit constraints, and migration, LABOUR, 26(1), March 2012.

Migration and financial constraints: evidence from Mexico, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 97(1), March 2015.

COVID-19

Remote Work and the Heterogeneous Impact of COVID-19 on Employment and Health, with Marco Angrisani, Daniel Bennett, Arie Kapteyn, and Simone Schaner, August 2020.

Miscellanea

Ownership, competition and enterprise performance, with Saul Estrin, Comparative Economic Studies, 45(2), July 2003.