Working Papers:


Parenthood in Poverty (with Christina Kent). September 2023. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 17722.



In Preparation:

The Value of Learning History (with Luca Braghieri).

How Slanted is Online News Consumption? (with Luca Braghieri, Ro’ee Levy, Markus Mobius, Jacob Steinhardt, Ruiqi Zhong).

Publications in Economics:


Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Non-Experts for Improving Vaccine Demand (with Marcella Alsan). 

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 16(1), February 2024. Online appendix.


Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis (with Marcella Alsan, Luca Braghieri, Min Jeong Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva and David Yang). 

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 15(4), October 2023.

Primary Care Providers’ Influence on Opioid Use and Its Adverse Consequences (with Jonathan Zhang). 

Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 217, January 2023.

Pathways Into Opioid Dependence: Evidence From Practice Variation in Emergency Departments (with Jonathan Zhang).

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 14(4): 271-300, October 2022.

The Welfare Effects of Social Media (with Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri and Matthew Gentzkow)

American Economic Review, Vol. 110(3),  March 2020.

Publications in Health Policy:


Effects of a large-scale social media advertising campaign on holiday travel and COVID-19 infections: a cluster randomized controlled trial (E Breza, F Cody Stanford, M Alsan, B Alsan, A Banerjee, A Chandrasekhar, S Eichmeyer, T Glushko, P Goldsmith-Pinkham, K Holland, E Hoppe, M Karnani, S Liegl, T Loisel, L Ogbu-Nwobodo, B Olken, C Torres, P-L Vautrey, E Warner, S Wootton, E Duflo). 

Nature Medicine, September 2021.

Effect of Physician-delivered COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Acknowledging Racial Inequity on Black and White Adults' Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices Related to COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial (C Torres, L Ogbu-Nwobodo, M Alsan, F Cody Stanford, A Banerjee, E Breza, A Chandrasekhar, S Eichmeyer, M Karnani, T Loisel, P Goldsmith-Pinkham, B Olken, PL Vautrey, E Warner, and E Duflo)

JAMA Network Open, July 2021.

Comparison of Knowledge and Information-Seeking Behavior After General COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Tailored for Black and Latinx Communities (M Alsan, F Cody Stanford, A Banerjee, E Breza, A Chandrasekhar, S Eichmeyer P Goldsmith-Pinkham, L Ogbu-Nwobodo, B Olken, C Torres, A Sankar, PL Vautrey, and E Duflo)

Annals of Internal Medicine, April 2021.

Other Publications:


How to encourage vaccination  - ASHEcon Newsletter (2/2021)


Civil liberties during the COVID-19 pandemic - VoxEU (11/2020)


Time off social media may leave you less informed but happier - LSE Business Review (1/2020)