Working Papers
Firstborn Daughters and Family Structure in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Garance Genicot) VoxDev; NBER Working Paper; CEPR Working Paper
This is a Man's World: Crime and Intra-Household Resource Allocation HICN Working Paper. Blogs/Press: Development Impact Blog, Nada es Gratis, Policy Dialogue, Foco Economico. Awards: III Premio Nada es Gratis to Job Market Papers in Economics , 2021 Georgetown Razin Prize
From Pilot to Policy: Experimental Evidence from Scaling Online Tutoring (with María Calle, Lucas Gortazar, Claudia Hupkau, Teresa Molina-Millán, and Antonio Roldán-Mones)
Measuring Agency Through Psychological Constructs in Lower-Income Settings (with Clare Clingain and Aletheia Donald)
Personalized Social Services and Socioeconomic Inclusion: Experimental Evidence from Spain (with María Calle García and Teresa Molina-Millan)
Selected Work in Progress
Capital, Capability, or Confidence: Experimental Evidence on Youth Entrepreneurship in Kenya (with Yanina Domenella, Julian Jamison, Abla Safir, and Bilal Zia)
Unaccompanied migrant youth: design and complementarities between labor, mental health, and community interventions (with Teresa Molina-Millan) JPAL Exploratory grant Policy Brief
The Effects of Boosting Youth Entrepreneurship on Marital Outcomes and Intimate Partner Violence (with Yanina Domenella, Julian Jamison, and Abla Safir) IPA IPV Grant
Measuring Women’s Agency Using Unsupervised Text Methods (with Aletheia Donald, Clare Clingain, Losira N. Sanya, and Marina Rizzi)
Publications
Persistent yet Ameliorable Shocks to Female Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from Kenya (with Francisco Campos, Julian Jamison, Abla Safir, and Bilal Zia) ( Journal of Development Economics 177, October 2025) Pre-print
Women's Land Rights and Village Institutions in Tanzania (with Garance Genicot) (World Development, 153, May 2022) Pre-print; Policy Brief ; VILART Survey
Research Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
European Social Inclusion Initiative pilot grant, JPAL, 2026
Crime and Violence Initiative exploratory grant, JPAL, 2025
Displaced Livelihoods Initiative exploratory grant, JPAL, 2024
Juan de la Cierva-formación, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, 2022
Women's work, Entrepreneurship, and Skilling (WWES) Iniative, Innovations for Poverty Actions, 2021
Razin Prize, Georgetown University Economics Department, 2021
Premio Nada es Gratis to Job Market Papers in Economics, 2021