research

Publications

• A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh (with Nina Buchmann, Erica Field, Rachel Glennerster, and Shahana Nazneen), American Economic Review 113 (2023), 2645-2688
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          Coverage: IGC Ideas for India, VoxDev s

• Spousal Disagreement in Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya (with Johannes Haushofer, Charlotte Ringdal, and Jeremy Shapiro), American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings 110 (2020), 620-624
  xxxxxCoverage: VoxDevx

• The Limits of Meritocracy: Screening Bureaucrats Under Imperfect Verifiability (with Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato and Shuang Zhang), (previously circulated as “The One Child Policy and Promotion of Mayors in China”), Journal of Development Economics 140 (2019), 223-241
  xxxxxCoverage: The Economists

• Policymaking and the Adaptability of Informal Institutions, World Bank Economic Review 29 (2015), 174-181

Working Papers

• Space Infrastructure Supermodularity (with Kenneth C. Cheung), 2024

• Income Changes and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya (with Johannes Haushofer, Charlotte Ringdal, and Jeremy Shapiro), NBER Working Paper no. 25627
  Coverage: J-PAL Policy Insightsx

• Risk Sorting, Portfolio Choice, and Endogenous Informal Insurance (previously circulated as “Endogenous Insurance and Informal Relationships”), NBER Working Paper no. 20429

• Risk, Incentives, and Contracting Relationships, 2013x

• A Note on Moral Hazard and Linear Compensation Schemes, 2013x

• Interdependent Utility and Truth-Telling in Two-Sided Matching, 2013

Work in Progresss

• Parenthood, Gender Wage Gaps, and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia (with Jeremy Lebow, Duncan Thomas, and Daniel Yi Xu)s

• Representation or Regulation in Committee Decision-Making?: Theory and Evidence for Combating Biased Selection (with Arun G. Chandrasekhar)
  Coverage: PEDL CEPR