Research

Publications and forthcoming papers

(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]

(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: Evidence from Rural Liberia and Malawi” (with Shilpa Aggarwal, Jenny Aker, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson, and Alan Spearot). October 2022. Revise and Resubmit, 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). September 2023. Revise and Resubmit, Economic Journal.

“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). February 2024. Revised and Resubmited, World Bank Economic Review.
Covered: VoxDev

“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).

Works in progress

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

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

“Understanding Factors for Adoption of Modern Contraceptives: An Experiment with Private-sector Health Providers in Liberia” (with Rolly Kapoor).