Working Papers
Working Papers
[PDF] Competition and Management Upgrading: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (with Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps and Tigabu Getahun). May 2025.
[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). April 2025.
[PDF] Intergenerational Impacts of Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana (with Esther Duflo, Elizabeth Spelke and Mark Walsh). July 2024. Revision requested, American Economic Review [VoxDev summary]
[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). June 2024. Revision requested, The Review of Economic Studies
[PDF] Gender Differences in Economics Seminars (with Amy Handlan, Alicia Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Sere, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and the Seminar Dynamics Collective). May 2025. Conditionally accepted, American Economic Review
[PDF] Eliciting Poverty Rankings from Urban or Rural Neighbors: Methodology and Empirical Evidence (with Deivy Houeix and Marcel Fafchamps). Revised August 2024 for Quantitative Economics
[PDF] Keeping Up Appearances: An Experimental Investigation of Relative Rank Signaling (with Marcel Fafchamps and Laura Hernandez-Nunez). April 2025.
[PDF] The Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (with Seema Jayachandran, Adriana Lleras-Muney and Pauline Rossi). September 2025. American Economic Review 115(8): 2659–88. [VoxDev summary]
[PDF] The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making Inside the Household (with Nina Buchmann and Roberta Ziparo). 2025. American Economic Review 115(2): 525-70. [DATA]
[PDF] Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed (with Daniel Agness, Travis Baseler, Sylvain Chassang and Erik Snowberg). 2025. The Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
[Slides] [Coverage: Development Impact] [DATA]
[PDF] Informing Mothers about the Benefits of Conversing with Infants: Experimental Evidence from Ghana (with Camille Falezan, Seema Jayachandran and Mark Walsh). 2025. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 17(2): 388–417. [DATA]
[PDF] Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India (with Radhika Jain). 2024. American Economic Review 114 (10): 3345–3383 [DATA] [VIDEO SUMMARY] [VoxDev summary]
[PDF] Is Digital Credit Filling a Hole or Digging a Hole? Evidence from Malawi (with Valentina Brailovskaya and Jonathan Robinson). 2024. The Economic Journal 134 (658): 457-484. [DATA] [VoxDev summary]
[PDF] Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions (with Debopam Bhattacharya and Shin Kanaya). 2024. The Review of Economic Studies 91(2): 748-784. [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. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 15(1): 272–305 [DATA] [VoxDev summary]
[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. American Economic Journal: 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. American Economic Journal: 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. American Economic Journal: 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. American Economic Journal: 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. American Economic Journal: 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]
Sophie's choice? Not quite. (February 2015). My op-ed response to a January 2015 New York Times article on bed nets and fish.