Research
Research
Ongoing Research Projects
"Text Messaging to Caregivers to Improve Early Child Development in Ecuador." AEA Trial Registry | IPA Research Summary
“Impact Evaluation of the First Thousand Days Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Ecuador.” Forthcoming.
Working Papers
“Can Mentorship and Village Savings and Loans Groups Improve the Impacts of Women's Small Business Training in Conflict Affected Areas of Nigeria?”. Forthcoming. AEA Trial Registry | Women for Women International Research Summary
“Texting for Nutrition: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador.” Forthcoming. (with Ana Maria Oviedo and Priscila Vera Jibaya), presented at PacDev 2020.
“Aspirations and Adolescent Fertility Decision-Making in Quito, Ecuador.” Forthcoming. (with Marta Favara and Facundo Cuevas)
“The Twists and Turns in the Road to Justice in Colombia.” 2019. (with Juan Vargas, Jorge Luis Silva Mendez, and Diana Ortiz).
“Enhancing Youth Skills and Economic Opportunities to Reduce Teenage Pregnancy in Colombia.” 2015. (with Gimenez et al.) The World Bank and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Articles
“Resilience and Livelihoods Change in Tigray, Ethiopia.” 2012. (with Bapu Vaitla, Girmay Tesfay, Daniel Maxwell) Feinstein International Center. Tufts University.
“Desk Study on the Human Development Approach, and its Potential Applicability to USAID.” 2012. (with Hammock, de Alba, and Barham) Washington, DC: Management Systems International.
Books and Chapters in Books
Powerful Text Messages: Promoting Health Improvements. 2018. (with Nelson Gutierrez, Cristina Medina and Priscila Vera Jibaya) The World Bank.
“Redistribution in Times of Fiscal Pressure: Using Games to Inform a Subsidy Reform in El Salvador.” 2017. (with German Caruso, Manuel Sanchez Masferrer, and Kinnon Scott) Published chapter in ed. Calvo-Gonzalez and Zoratto Behavioral Insights for Development: Cases from Central America. World Bank, Washington DC
“Shared Prosperity and Opportunities in El Salvador.” 2015. (with Mateo Salazar, and Kinnon Scott) Published chapter in ed. Cord, Genoni, and Rodriguez-Castelan Shared Prosperity and Poverty Eradication in Latin America and the Caribbean. World Bank, Washington DC.
“Review of Rigorous Impact Evaluations of Mobile Phone Interventions.” 2012. Contributions from the research published in the full report ed. Buvinic, Furst-Nichols, and Courey Pryor. 2013. A Roadmap for Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment. United Nations Foundation, Exxon Mobil.
Teenage Pregnancy and Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean: On Teenage Fertility Decisions, Poverty, and Economic Achievement. 2012. (Part of the research support team. Authors: Joao Pedro Azevedo, Marta Favara, Sarah E. Haddock, Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Miriam Muller, and Elizaveta Perova) The World Bank, Washington DC.