Publications:
"Improving School Leadership in Rwanda" with Lee Crawfurd, Jocelyne Cyiza Kirezi, Aimable Nsabimana, Jef Peeraer, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 177, 2025.
Working papers:
Presented at: Development Microcluster 2023 (Geneva), German Development Economics Conference 2023 (Dresden), BBL 2023, Lisbon Economic and Statistics Conference 2024 (Lisbon), CEPR Policy Forum 2024 (Paris), Applied Economics Conference 2024 (Belgrad), Development Economics Network Switzerland 2024 (Geneva), Innovations for Poverty - Evidence summit 2024 (Accra), IFO Institute (Munich), Max-Planck Society for Collective Goods (Bonn), UC Louvain 2025.
How can low-income countries expand access to secondary education? In 2007, Uganda subsidized tuition fees in public and strategically-located private secondary schools. Using novel administrative and household data, I find that the reduction in schooling fees had minimal effects on educational outcomes in public schools, probably due to limited capacity to accept more students. However, the subsidies significantly improved educational outcomes for female students attending private schools, especially when these schools were within 5 kilometers walking distance. I provide new insights into how a non-targeted fee-reduction policy can produce large, heterogeneous effects, in particular with respect to gender and school location.
Selected work in progress: