Working Papers

Firstborn Daughters and Family Structure in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Garance Genicot) VoxDev;  NBER Working Paper;  CEPR Working Paper  

From Pilot to Policy: Experimental Evidence from Scaling Online Tutoring (with María Calle, Lucas Gortazar, Claudia Hupkau, Teresa Molina-Millán, and Antonio Roldán-Mones) CEP Discussion 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

Measuring Agency Through Psychological Constructs in Lower-Income Settings (with Clare Clingain and Aletheia Donald)  

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

Personalized Social Services and Socioeconomic Inclusion: Experimental Evidence from Spain (with María Calle García and Teresa Molina-Millan) (SERIEs-Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Forthcoming)    

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