Research
Journal Articles
Fabregas, Raissa, Michael Kremer, Matthew Lowes, Robert On, and Giulia Zane.“Digital Information Provision and Behavior Change: Lessons from Six Experiments in East Africa”. (Forthcoming at the American Economic Journal: Applied)
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. "Broadcasting Education at Scale: Long-Term Labor Market Impacts of Television-Based Schools"
Zanoni, Wladimir, and Raissa Fabregas. "The Migrant Penalty in Latin America: Experimental Evidence from Job Recruiters"
Work in Progress
Fabregas, Raissa and Jack Willis. "Documenting and Understanding Frictions in Information Diffusion: Evidence from smallholder farmers in Kenya" (field activities in progress)
Bobonis, Gustavo, Raissa Fabregas, Orlando Sotomayor, and Roman Zarate "Enhancing socio-emotional skills through the school system: Evidence from a teacher training program in Puerto Rico" (field activities in progress)
Cole, Shawn, Raissa Fabregas, Nilesh Fernando and Hee Kwon Seo. "Agricultural Extension, Technology Adoption, and Information Spillovers: Evidence from a Cluster Randomized Experiment"
Angelucci, Manuela, Raissa Fabregas, and Antonia Vazquez. "Improving Mental Health with an AI-driven Mobile App"
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.