WORKING PAPERS
Angelucci, Manuela, Raissa Fabregas, and Antonia Vazquez. "The Well-Being Effects of Digital Mental Health Care". Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review. Media: [VoxDev], [RF Berlin]
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: Navarro-Sola (2021) and 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" (In preparation) (abstract)
Angelucci, Manuela, Daniel Bennett, Raissa Fabregas, and Antonia Vazquez. "Mental Health and Investment Propensity: Evidence from India and Mexico" (In preparation). Media: [CID Blog]
Fabregas, Raissa. "Does Impact Evidence Change Policy Preferences? Evidence from Mexico’s Landmark Conditional Cash Transfer Program" (In preparation)
Angelucci, Manuela, and Raissa Fabregas. "Who Leads and What Are the Consequences: Evidence from a Civic Leadership Program in Rural India" (Pilot underway)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
(7) 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]
(6) 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]
(5) 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]
(4) 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]
(3) 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]
(2) 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]
(1) Fabregas, Raissa, Michael Kremer, and Frank Schilbach.“Realizing the Potential of Digital Development: The Case of Agricultural Advice”. Science 366, no. 6471 (2019): eaay3038.
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 WORK
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.