NEW! [PDF]  Keeping Up Appearances: An Experimental Investigation of Relative Rank Signaling (with Marcel Fafchamps and Laura Hernandez-Nunez). May 2024.

NEW! [PDF]  The Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (with Seema Jayachandran, Adriana Lleras-Muney and Pauline Rossi). April 2024.

[PDF] Long-run Impacts of Forced Labor Migration on Fertility Behaviors: Evidence from Colonial West Africa  (with Camille Falezan, Marie Christelle Mabeu and Pauline Rossi). January 2024.

[PDF] The Impact of Secondary School Subsidies on Career Trajectories in a Dual Labor Market: Experimental Evidence from Ghana (with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer). November 2023. 

Coming soon! Intergenerational Impacts of Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana (with Esther Duflo, Elizabeth Spelke and Mark Walsh). May 2024.

[PDF]  The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making Inside the Household (with Nina Buchmann and Roberta Ziparo). April 2024. Revision Requested, American Economic Review

[PDF] Measuring Relative Poverty Through Peer Rankings: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire (with Deivy Houeix and Marcel Fafchamps).  May 2023. Revision Requested, Quantitative Economics

[PDF] Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed (with Daniel Agness, Travis Baseler, Sylvain Chassang and Erik Snowberg). February 2024. Revision Requested, Review of Economic Studies

[PDF] Informing Mothers about the Benefits of Conversing with Infants: Experimental Evidence from Ghana (with Camille Falezan, Seema Jayachandran and Mark Walsh). January 2024. Revision Requested, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

[PDF] Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars (with Alicia Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Justin Wolfers, and the Seminar Dynamics Collective). Updated October 2023.

[PDF]  Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India (with Radhika Jain). January 2024. Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Review  [DATA]

[PDF] Is Digital Credit Filling a Hole or Digging a Hole? Evidence from Malawi (with Valentina Brailovskaya and Jonathan Robinson). 2023. Forthcoming, The Economic Journal  [DATA]

[PDF] Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions (with Debopam Bhattacharya and Shin Kanaya).  2023. Forthcoming, The Review of Economic Studies  [DATA]

[PDF]  Can Beneficiary Information Improve Hospital Accountability? Experimental Evidence from a Public Health Insurance Scheme in India (with Radhika Jain). 2023. Journal of Public Economics 220 (2023) 104841

[PDF] Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor: Experimental Evidence from Malawi (with Basimenye Nhlema, Zachary Wagner, Aaron Wolf and Emily Wroe). 2023. AEJ: Economic Policy   15(1): 272–305   [DATA]

[PDF] Panel Data Evidence on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Livelihoods in Urban Côte d'Ivoire (with Eva Lestant and Marcel Fafchamps). 2023. Plos One  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277559   [DATA]  

[PDF] The Effects of India’s COVID-19 Lockdown on Critical Non-COVID Health Care and Outcomes (with Radhika Jain). 2022. Social Science & Medicine 296: 114762

[PDF] COVID-19 Related Immunization Disruptions in Rajasthan, India: A Retrospective Observational Study (with Radhika Jain, Ambika Chopra, Camille Falezan and Mustufa Patel). 2021. Vaccine 39(31): 4343-4350     

[PDF] Sex, Lies and Measurement: Consistency tests for indirect response survey methods (with Erica Chuang, Elise Huillery and Juliette Seban). 2021. Journal of Development Economics  148 (2021) 102582. [DATA Cote d'Ivoire] [DATA Cameroon]

[PDF] The Daily Grind: Cash Needs and Labor Supply (with Jonathan Robinson and Santiago Saavedra). [Online Appendix] 2020. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization  177: 399-414.  [DATA]

[PDF] Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting: Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi (with Maria Pia Basurto Preciado and Jonathan Robinson). 2020. Journal of Public Economics 185 (104047). 

[PDF] HIV Prevention Among Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV and Male Condom Distribution in Rural Kenya (with Esther Duflo, Thomas Ginn, Grace Makana Barasa, Moses Baraza, Victor Pouliquen and Vandana Sharma).  2019. Plos ONE 14 (7): e0219535. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0219535   [DATA]

 [PDF] The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya (with Anthony Keats and Jonathan Robinson). 2019. Economic Journal  129 (617): 273-310.     [DATA]      [Survey Instruments]  

[PDF] Infrastructure Quality Assessment in Africa using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning (with Barak Oshri, Annie Hu, Peter Adelson, Xiao Chen, Jeremy Weinstein, Marshall Burke, David Lobell and Stefano Ermon). 2018. Proc. 24th ACM SIGKDD Conference 2018 (KDD 2018)          

[PDF] Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from three countries (with Dean Karlan, Jonathan Robinson and Diego Ubfal). 2018. AEJ: Applied Economics  Vol. 10 (2), pp. 257–97. [DATA]

[PDF] Risk Information, Risk Salience, and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Cameroon (with Elise Huillery and Juliette Seban). 2018. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Vol. 145, pp. 151-175, January 2018  [DATA]

[PDF] Governance and Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya and Uganda (with Rebecca Dizon-Ross and Jonathan Robinson). 2017. Journal of Public Economics Vol. 156, pp. 150-169.  [DATA]

[PDF] Supply and Demand for Improved Sanitation: Results from Randomized Pricing Experiments in Rural Tanzania (with Rachel Peletz, Alicea Cock-Esteb, Dorothea Ysenburg, Salim Haji and Ranjiv Kush). 2017. Environmental Science and Technology  51 (12), pp 7138–7147, May 2017. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b03846           

[PDF] Impacts and Determinants of Health Levels in Low-Income Countries (with Edward Miguel). 2017. Handbook of Field Experiments Vol 2, pp3-94. 2017. North Holland, Eds. A. Banerjee and E. Duflo

[PDF] Targeting health subsidies through a nonprice mechanism: A randomized controlled trial in Kenya (with Vivian Hoffmann, Michael Kremer and Alix Peterson Zwane).  2016. Science Vol. 353(6302), pp. 889-895. [DATA]

 [PDF] Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor: Evidence from Kenya's Western Province (with Sarah Green, Anthony Keats, and Jonathan Robinson). 2016. In African Successes Vol. III: Modernization and Development. (NBER Conference Report.) Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David N. Weil, editors. University of Chicago Press.  

 [PDF] Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya (with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer). 2015. American Economic Review Vol. 105(9), pp. 2257-97.   [DATA]

[PDF] School Governance, Teacher Incentives and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools (with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer). 2015. Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 123, pp. 92-110 [DATA]

[PDF] Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education (with Najy Benhassine, Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, and Victor Pouliquen). 2015. AEJ: Economic Policy 7(3), pp. 86-125.  [DATA]

[PDF] Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment (with Jessica Cohen and Simone Schaner). 2015. American Economic Review 105(2), pp. 609-645.  Web Appendices:  [Web Appendices] [DATA]

[PDF] Getting Essential Health Products to Their End Users: Subsidize, but How Much? 2014. Science, Vol. 345, Issue 6202, pp. 1279-1281, 12 September 2014.

 [PDF] Global Health Systems: Pricing and User Fees. 2014. Encyclopedia of Health Economics  vol. 2, Anthony J. Culyer, Ed. (Elsevier, San Diego, 2014). pp. 136-141.

[PDF] Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products: Evidence from a Field Experiment.  2014. Econometrica 82(1), pp. 197-28.   [DATA]

 [PDF] Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments (with Jonathan Robinson). 2013. American Economic Review  103(4), pp. 1138-71. [Web Appendix]         [DATA]

[PDF] Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya (with Jonathan Robinson). 2013. AEJ: Applied Economics  5(1), pp. 163-92, January 2013     [DATA]

[PDF] The (Hidden) Costs of Political Instability: Evidence from Kenya's 2007 Election Crisis (with Jonathan Robinson). 2012. Journal of Development Economics 99(2), pp. 314-329.

[PDF] Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco (with Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, William Pariente and Vincent Pons). 2012. AEJ: Economic Policy 4(4), pp. 68-99.    [DATA]

[PDF] Inferring Welfare Maximizing Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints (with Debopam Bhattacharya). 2012. Journal of Econometrics 167(1), pp. 168-196. [DATA]

[PDF] Health Behavior in Developing Countries. 2011. Annual Review of Economics Vol. 3, pp. 425-449.

[PDF] Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya (with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer). 2011. American Economic Review 101(5), pp. 1739-74. [Web Appendix] [CORRIGENDUM]    [DATA] 

[PDF] Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya 2011.  AEJ: Applied Economics 3 (1), pp.1-36, January 2011 [CORRIGENDUM]   [DATA]

[PDF]  Coping with Political Instability: Micro Evidence from Kenya’s 2007 Election Crisis (with Jonathan Robinson). 2010. American Economic Review P&P 100(2):120-124.

[PDF] Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment (with Jessica Cohen).  2010. Quarterly Journal of Economics 125 (1), pp.1-45.   [Web Appendix]    [DATA]

[PDF]  What matters (and what does not) in households' decision to invest in malaria prevention? 2009. American Economic Review P&P  99(2): 224-230, May 2009.      [DATA]