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NETWORKS AND SPILLOVER EFFECTS

Passing the Message: Peer Outreach about COVID-19 Precautions in Zambia

with Alfredo Burlando, Pradeep Chintagunta, Melissa Graboyes, Jessica Goldberg, Peter Hangoma, Dean Karlan, and Mario Macis

Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171, 103318 (Ungated version)

The Interplay Among Savings Accounts and Network-Based Financial Arrangements: Evidence from a Field Experiment

with Margherita Comola

The Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (649): 516-535 (Ungated version)

Treatment Effect Accounting for Network Changes

with Margherita Comola

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (3): 597-604 (Ungated version)

Incentives and Unintended Consequences: Spillover Effects in Food Choice

with Manuela Angelucci, Heather Royer, and Anya Savikhin

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(4): 66-95 (Ungated version)

FINANCIAL ACCESS

From Default to Second Chances: Rehabilitating Delinquent Digital Borrowers

with Alfredo Burlando, Michael Khun, and Brock Wilson, submitted

Too Fast Too Furious? Digital Credit Speed and Repayments Rates

with Alfredo Burlando and Michael Khun

Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 174, 103427 (Ungated version)(VoxDev summary)(VoxDev talk)

The Role of Credit Reports in Digital Lending: A Case Study from Mexico

with Alfredo Burlando and Mike Kuhn

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2024, 40(1): 104–117 (Ungated version)

Can A Budget Recording Tool Teach Financial Skills to Youth? Experimental Evidence from a Financial Diaries Study

with Veronica Frisancho and Alejandro Herrera

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 214(10): 595-614 (Ungated version)

Migration, Money Transfers and Mobile Money: Evidence from Niger

with Jenny Aker and Jamilah Welch

American Economic Review, P&P, 2020, 110: 589-93 (Ungated version)

CCTs and Financial Access: Increasing the Bang for Each Transferred Buck?

with Carlos Chiapa

Development Policy Review, 2017, 35(1): 23-38 (Ungated version)

The Effects of Financial Inclusion on Children's Schooling, and Parental Aspirations and Expectations

with Carlos Chiapa and Adam Parker

Journal of International Development, 2016, 28(5): 683-696 (Ungated version)

The Effect of Savings on Risk-Taking and Intertemporal Choice Behavior

with Leandro Carvalho and Justin Sydnor

Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120(5): 41-52 (Ungated version)

Delivering Conditional Cash Transfers via Savings Account

with Carlos Chiapa

IPC-UNDP One Pager, 2015, 292 ISSN: 2318-9118

Banking the Poor via Savings Accounts: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 115: 16-31 (Ungated version)

RACIAL BIAS AND SOCIAL NORMS

Public Opinion, Racial Bias, and Labor Market Outcomes

with Kaveh Majlesi and Paul Sullivan

Nature Human Behavior, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01904-w (Ungated version)

The Importance of Parental Knowledge and Social Norms: Evidence from Weight Report Cards in Mexico

with Heather Royer

Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37: 232-247 (Ungated version)

DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND HUMAN CAPITAL

C-Sections, Obesity, and Health-Care Specialization: Evidence from Mexico

with Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Fernanda Marquez-Padilla

World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38(1): 139-160 (Ungated version)

Do Health Risk Assessments Change Eating Habits at the Workplace?

with Mariana Carrera and Ayesha Hasan

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 172: 236-246 (Ungated version)

The Effect of Social Programs and Exposure to Professionals on the Educational Aspirations of the Poor

with Carlos Chiapa and José Luis Garrido

Economics of Education Review, 2012, 3(1): 778-798 (Ungated version)

A Theory of Occupational Choice with Endogenous Fertility

with Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray

American Economic Journal - Microeconomics, 2012, 4(4): 1-34 (Ungated version)

INCOME SHOCKS AND CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING

Short-term Labor Supply Response to the Timing of Transfer Payments: Evidence from the SNAP Program

with Mindy Marks and Redina Tahaj

forthcoming, Labour Economics

Government Shutdown and SNAP Disbursements: Effects on Household Expenditures

with Mindy Marks and Roy Gernhardt

Review of the Economics of the Household, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-024-09719-4, (Ungated version)

Transitory Income Changes and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Mexico

with Manuela Angelucci, Carlos Chiapa and Irvin Rojas

Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230: 1-18 (Ungated version)(J-PAL summary)

Social Distancing, Stimulus Payments, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the US during COVID-19

with Bilge Erten and Pinar Keskin

American Economic Review P&P, 2022, 112: 262-66 (Ungated version)

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Borrowing and Repayment Dynamics after Repayment under a Second-Chance Policy for Delinquent Digital Borrowers

with Alfredo Burlando, Michael Khun, and Brock Wilson

Catchment If You Can: Demographic Consequences of Mandatory School Choice

with Mindy Marks and Roy Gernhardt

Integrating Behavioral Data and Social Norms with Network Models for Policy Applications

with Margherita Comola, Babak Heydari, Gabor Lippner, and Dan O'Brien

Uncovering Informal Financial Flows: Evidence from Pix Digitalization in Brazil

with Margherita Comola and Matheus Sampaio

Microcredit as a Stepping Stone to Improved Financial Access?

with David Jaume, Martin Tobal, and and Evelyn Hernández

Joint Liability versus Individual Incentives: Group Formation, Defaults, and Financial Trajectories in Microcredit

with Margherita Comola

Does Choice Architecture Matter for Take-up and Use of Care Services?

with Mary Steffel and Ashley Whillans

OTHER PAPERS

Effects of Border Price Changes on Agricultural Wages and Employment in Mexico

Journal of International Development, 2015, 27(1): 112–132 (Ungated version)

Who Benefited More from NAFTA: Small or Large Farmers? Evidence from Mexico

Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17(3): 594-608 (Ungated version)

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