Research
Publications
Legalize, Tax and Deter: Optimal Enforcement Policies for Corruptible Officials (2016). With Alberto Motta, Journal of Development Economics, 118, p. 207-215.
The Disease Environment, Schooling, and Development Outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopia (2015). Journal of Development Studies, 51(12), p. 1563-1584. (lead article)
The Trade Consequences of Maritime Insecurity: Evidence from Somali Piracy (2015). With Anca Cristea and Logan Lee, Review of International Economics, 23(3), p. 525-557.
Collusion and the Organization of the Firm (2015). With Alberto Motta, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 7(3), 1-33.
Transitory Shocks and Birth Weights: Evidence from a Blackout in Zanzibar (2014). Journal of Development Economics, 108, p. 154-168.
Power Outages, Power Externalities, and Baby Booms (2014). Demography, 51(4), p. 1477-1500
Working Papers
Does Group Inclusion Hurt Financial Inclusion? Evidence from Ultra-poor Members of Ugandan Savings Groups, with Andrea Canidio, Updated July 2016, Resubmitted to the Journal of Development Economics
The Allocation of Capital in Rural Credit Markets, with Andrea Canidio, Updated March 2016, Revisions Requested from the Journal of International Development
The Economics of Savings Groups, with Andrea Canidio and Rebekah Selby, Updated April 2016 (Under review)
Work in Progress
How does Mobile Money Affect Adopters’ Social Networks?, with Cynthia Kinnan and Silvia Prina
Borrowing Constraints in Savings and Lending Groups, with Jessica Goldberg and Kristina Walker Pedersen
Prohibition, Legalization, and the Cost of Corruption in the War against Drugs, with Alberto Motta
Politically Motivated Development, with Shankha Chakraborty
Committed to (some) insurance
Zanzibar 2008 Fieldwork materials
Uganda 2013-14 Fieldwork materials (SCORE)
