Research

Publications and forthcoming papers

(2024) “Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi” (with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson, and Alan Spearot). World Bank Economic Review, lhae040.
[PDF] [Link to replication data]
Covered: VoxDev

(2024) “Shortening the Path to Productive Investment: Evidence from Input Fairs and Cash Transfers in Malawi” (with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson, and Alan Spearot). Journal of Development Economics 170: 103288.
[PDF] [Link to surveys] [Link to replication data]

(2023) “Exhaustive or Exhausting? Evidence on Respondent Fatigue in Long Surveys” (with Dahyeon Jeong, Shilpa Aggarwal, Jonathan Robinson, Naresh Kumar, and Alan Spearot). Journal of Development Economics 161: 102992.
[PDF]

(2022) “COVID-19 market disruptions and food security: Evidence from households in rural Liberia and Malawi” (with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson, and Alan Spearot). PLoS ONE 17(8): e0271488.
[PDF]

Working papers

“The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households” (with Shilpa Aggarwal, Jenny Aker, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson, and Alan Spearot). Resubmitted April 2024. Revised and Resubmitted, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. [AEA RCT Registry]
Covered: VoxDev

“Going the Extra Mile: Farm Subsidies and Spatial Convergence in Agricultural Input Adoption” (with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Rolly Kapoor, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson, and Alan Spearot). Revised July 2024.

“Reducing Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Multifaceted Female Empowerment Program in Urban Liberia” (with Naresh Kumar). [AEA RCT Registry].
Covered: World Bank Development Impact Blog

“The Impact of Digital Credit in Developing Economies: A Review of Recent Evidence” (with Joshua Blumenstock and Jonathan Robinson).

“Global Climate Action and Local Rights: Survey Experimental Evidence on Public Support for Carbon Offsetting in Liberia” (with Dongil Lee and Inbok Rhee). Revised August 2024.

Works in progress

“Raising Retail Productivity through Data Pooling in Zambia” (with Jie Bai and Ajay Shenoy).
[AEA RCT Registry]

“Understanding Gendered Differences in Job Search Behavior: Evidence from Urban India” (with Rolly Kapoor and Monica Shandal).

“Property Tax Compliance under Low Fiscal Capacity: An Experiment with the Liberia Revenue Authority” (with Oyebola Okunogbe).