Ongoing Research

On Poverty, Risk and Climate Resilience

Climate and Resilience in World Food Program Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Mali, Niger, Rwanda and South Sudan. With Paul Christian, Chloe Fernandez, Jonas Heirman, Marcus Holmlund, Dahyeon Jeong, Erin Kelley, Greg Lane and Jennifer Waidler.

• Link to AEA RCT registry

• Niger Endline Report, Niger Baseline Report, Niger Inception Report 

• Mali Baseline Report, Mali Inception Report

Long-Term Impacts of Cash Transfers and Productive Safety Nets: 10-year Follow-up of the Atención a Crisis Pilots in Nicaragua. With Karen Macours and Renos Vakis 

• Link to AEA RCT registry

What is the Value of Early Response? Shock-responsive Cash Transfers for Drought in Mauritania. With Stefan Dercon, Ashley Pople, and Margaux Vinez.

• Link to AEA RCT registry

On Multi-Faceted Economic Inclusion (Graduation) Programs to Reduce Poverty

Promoting Livelihoods, Productive Inclusion and Resilience among the Poor: Multi-country RCT of the Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Program. With Thomas Bossuroy, Dean Karlan, Harounan Kazianga, Chris Udry, William Parienté, and Julia Vaillant.

• Project page, Project Brief, Project Video, Project Overview.

• Link to AEA RCT registry.

• Policy report with results from Senegal (in French).

• Policy report with results from Chad (in French).

• Policy report with results from Burkina Faso (in French).

• Policy report with results from Mauritania (in French).

Scaling Effective Economic Inclusion Programs through Government Systems, with Partnership for Economic Inclusion Impact Collaborative.

• Brief on the PEI impact collaborative, 2024 research workshop, 2023 research workshop, 2022 policy workshop.

Promoting economic inclusion at scale through self and wage employment support. With Aidan Coville and Dahyeon Jeong

• Link to AEA RCT registry 

Trainers' Value-Added for Youth Economic inclusion in Urban Cameroon. With Iona Botea, Adrien Ciret, Antoine Deeb and Guylaine Nouwoue

• Link to AEA RCT registry 

On Human Capital, Skills and Labor

The Medium-term Impacts of Dual Apprenticeships on Youths in Côte d’Ivoire. With Bruno Crépon and Eva Lestant

• Link to AEA RCT registry 

The Relative Effectiveness of Enhancing Apprenticeship for Youth and Firms: Experimental Evidence from Benin and Nigeria. With Bruno Crépon, Oyebola Okunogbe and Mathilde Sage.

• Link to AEA RCT registry for Benin.

• Link to AER RCT registry for Nigeria.

• AEA RCT registry for spin-off study on promoting girls' access to apprenticeship in Benin.

Experimental Evidence from an Early Childhood Parenting Intervention in Nicaragua. With Karen Macours, Norbert Schady and Renos Vakis.