Working Papers
Persecution and Migrant Self-Selection: Evidence from the Collapse of the Communist Bloc (with Ran Abramitzky and Isabelle Sin)
Conditionally Accepted, Review of Economics & Statistics. [Slides] [NBER Working Paper]
Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed (with Daniel Agness, Sylvain Chassang, Pascaline Dupas, and Erik Snowberg)
Conditionally Accepted, Review of Economic Studies. [Slides] [NBER Working Paper] [AEA RCT Registry]
Coverage: Development Impact
Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes Toward Refugees (with Thomas Ginn, Robert Hakiza, Helidah Ogude-Chambert, and Olivia Woldemikael)
Reject and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy. [Slides] [AEA RCT Registry] [Full Pre-Specified Results]
Coverage: VoxDev
Social Welfare Portability and Migration: Evidence from India’s Public Distribution System (with Ambar Narayan, Odyssia Ng, and Sutirtha Sinha Roy)
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. [WB Policy Working Paper] [AEA RCT Registry]
Migration Spillovers Within Families: Evidence from Thailand
Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Dynamics.
Disastrous Displacement: The Long-Run Impacts of Landslides (with Jakob Hennig)
[Slides] [WB Policy Working Paper]
Publications
Hidden Income and the Perceived Returns to Migration, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2023.
[Working Paper] [Slides] [AEA RCT Registry]
Coverage: The Economist
Selected Work in Progress
The Role of Information and Networks in Migration (with Zachary Barnett-Howell and Thomas Ginn)
Interventions and data collection complete.
Mentoring Small Businesses: Evidence from Uganda (with Thomas Ginn, Ibrahim Kasirye, Belinda Muya, and Andrew Zeitlin)
Interventions complete. Data collection ongoing.
Direct and Spillover Impacts of Graduation Programs (with Raphaela Karlen and Odyssia Ng)
Interventions and data collection ongoing.