JOURNAL ARTICLES
Araya, Roberto, Julian Cristia, Lisseth Escalante, Raissa Fabregas, Carolina Mendez Vargas, Gera Rios. "Messaging Teachers to Boost Student Edtech Use". Economics of Education Review 109 (2025): 102706. [Working Paper]
Fabregas, Raissa and Wladimir Zanoni. "The Migrant Penalty in Latin America: Experimental Evidence from Job Recruiters". Journal of Public Economics 247 (2025): 105393. [Working paper]
Fabregas, Raissa, Michael Kremer, Matthew Lowes, Robert On, and Giulia Zane.“Digital Information Provision and Behavior Change: Lessons from Six Experiments in East Africa”. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 17, no. 1 (2025): 527–566. [Working paper] Media: [VoxDev], [CEPR]
Fabregas, Raissa. "Trade-offs of Attending Better Schools: Achievement, Self-Perceptions and Educational Trajectories". The Economic Journal 133, no. 655 (2023): 2709-2737. [Working paper]
Cañedo, Ana P., Raissa Fabregas, and Prankur Gupta. "Emergency Cash Transfers for Informal Workers: Impact Evidence from Mexico". Journal of Public Economics 219 (2023): 104820. [Working paper]
Fabregas, Raissa, and Tite Yokossi. “Mobile Money and Economic Activity: Evidence from Kenya” The World Bank Economic Review 36, no. 3 (2022): 734-756. [Working paper]
Fabregas, Raissa, Michael Kremer, and Frank Schilbach.“Realizing the Potential of Digital Development: The Case of Agricultural Advice”. Science 366, no. 6471 (2019): eaay3038.
WORKING PAPERS
Fabregas, Raissa, and Laia Navarro-Sola. "Scaling Education to Marginalized Populations: Long-Run Impacts of Technology-Aided Schools" (submitted). 2nd place in the Premio Banamex de Economía 2024.
Note: This paper is the result of merging two independent projects: “Secondary Schools with Televised Lessons: The Labor Market Returns of the Mexican Telesecundaria” (Navarro-Sola, 2021) and “Broadcasting Human Capital? The Long-Term Effects of Mexico’s Telesecundarias” (Fabregas, 2021). This paper supersedes all prior versions. Fabregas (2021) was covered in [VoxDev], [NY Times], and was awarded the Juan Luis Londoño Prize for best paper at LACEA 2019.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Fabregas, Raissa, Roman Zarate, Gustavo Bobonis and Orlando Sotomayor. "Boosting Completion: Top-Down Monitoring, Social Incentives, and Soft Commitments in the Public Sector" (abstract)
Angelucci, Manuela, Raissa Fabregas, and Antonia Vazquez. "The Well-Being Effects of Digital Mental Health Care" (Data collection completed)
Angelucci, Manuela, Daniel Bennett, Raissa Fabregas, and Antonia Vazquez. "Enhancing Parental Mental Health and Children’s Outcomes Through a Low-Cost Scalable Program: Evidence from Mexico" (Data collection in progress). Media: [CID Blog]
Fabregas, Raissa. "Does Impact Evidence Change Policy Preferences? Evidence from Mexico’s Landmark Conditional Cash Transfer Program" (Data collection in progress)
Angelucci, Manuela, and Raissa Fabregas. "Who Leads and What Are the Consequences: Evidence from a Civic Leadership Program in Rural India" (Funded)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Fabregas, Raissa, Tomoko Harigaya, Michael Kremer, and Ravindra Ramrattan. "Digital Agricultural Extension for Development". In Introduction to Development Engineering: A Framework with Applications from the Field, pp. 187-219. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Abel, Martin, Megan Blair, Raissa Fabregas, Kamilla Gumede, and Murray Leibbrandt. “Youth Employment in South Africa.” In Youth and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Working but Poor (2014), Pp. 356. Routledge.
POLICY PAPERS AND OTHER REPORTS
Canedo, Ana, Raissa Fabregas, and Megan Morris. 2020. “Emergency Cash Transfers During COVID-19: Implementation Lessons for the Global South”. In Resiliency in the Age of COVID-19: A policy toolkit.
Fabregas, Raissa, Michael Kremer, Jon Robinson, and Frank Schilbach."Evaluating Agricultural Information Dissemination in Western Kenya" 3iE Impact Evaluation Report 67 (2017). New Delhi: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
Fabregas, Raissa, Michael Kremer, Jonathan Robinson, and Frank Schilbach."The Value of Local Agricultural Information: Evidence from Willingness-to-Pay Trials in Kenya". Working Paper, 2020.