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I am a development and labor economist whose research agenda focuses on gender equality and three key dimensions of human development emphasized in international development: financial access, health, and education. I primarily utilize field and lab experiments in low-and middle income countries to identify causal relationships motivated by theory and policy, often in partnerships with development practitioners. I have conducted research projects across multiple settings, including India, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Madagascar, and Sri Lanka.
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Publications and Accepted Papers:
Delivering Health Insurance Through Informal Financial Groups: Evidence on Adverse Selection, Demand, and Health Care Utilization. 2021. Health Economics.
Discrimination from Below: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia. 2021. Journal of Development Economics. (with Shibiru Ayalew and Shanthi Manian)
Follow my Lead: Assertive Cheap Talk and the Gender Gap. 2021. Management Science. (with Shanthi Manian)
Does Provider Access to Technology Improve Health Care? Evidence from a National Distribution of Phototherapy in Rwanda. 2021. Seminars of Perinatology, 45(1). (with Lisine Tuyisenge and Vinod Bhutani)
The Usual Suspects: Do Risk Tolerance, Altruism, and Health Predict the Response to COVID-19? 2020. Review of Economics of the Household. (with Greg Wright)
Can Mobile-Linked Bank Accounts Bolster Savings? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Sri Lanka. 2020. The Review of Economics and Statistics. (with Suresh de Mel, Craig McIntosh, and Christopher Woodruff)
What Explains Low Adoption of Digital Payment Technologies? Evidence from Small-Scale Merchants in Jaipur, India. 2019. PLoS ONE, 14(7). (with Ethan Ligon, Badal Malick, and Carly Trachtman)
Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Female Teachers. 2016. Journal of Human Resources, 51(2), 28. (Lead Article) (with Karthik Muralidharan)
Gender Discrimination in the Family. 2014. In E. Redmount (Ed.), The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth. (pp. 237-266). (with Prashant Bharadwaj and Gordan B. Dahl)
Working Papers:
Discrimination and Access to Capital: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (with Shibiru Ayalew and Shanthi Manian)
Selected Works in Progress:
Can Incentives Change Beliefs? A Field Experiment in Uganda (with JohnBosco Asiimwe, Denise Ferris, Shanthi Manian, and Sarojini Hirshleifer)
Gender and Nutrition Sensitive Agricultural Extension (with Niklas Beuhren, Adiam Hagos Hailemichael, and Estelle Koussoube)
Getting Girls Back in School: The Returns to Alternative Education in Tanzania (with James Khakshi and SK Tariquzzaman)
Leading School Recovery from COVID-19: Experimental Evidence on Post-Pandemic School Leadership Training (with Lee Crawford and Todd Pugatch)
Selecting Effective Teachers: A Field Experiment in Madagascar (with Peter Holland and Aprajit Mahajan)
Understanding and Developing Accountability in Ghanaian Schools (with Angela Owusu Ansah and Julius Ruschenpohler)
Delivering Health Insurance Through Informal Financial Groups: Evidence on Adverse Selection, Demand, and Health Care Utilization. 2021. Health Economics.
Discrimination from Below: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia. 2021. Journal of Development Economics. (with Shibiru Ayalew and Shanthi Manian)
Follow my Lead: Assertive Cheap Talk and the Gender Gap. 2021. Management Science. (with Shanthi Manian)
Does Provider Access to Technology Improve Health Care? Evidence from a National Distribution of Phototherapy in Rwanda. 2021. Seminars of Perinatology, 45(1). (with Lisine Tuyisenge and Vinod Bhutani)
The Usual Suspects: Do Risk Tolerance, Altruism, and Health Predict the Response to COVID-19? 2020. Review of Economics of the Household. (with Greg Wright)
Can Mobile-Linked Bank Accounts Bolster Savings? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Sri Lanka. 2020. The Review of Economics and Statistics. (with Suresh de Mel, Craig McIntosh, and Christopher Woodruff)
What Explains Low Adoption of Digital Payment Technologies? Evidence from Small-Scale Merchants in Jaipur, India. 2019. PLoS ONE, 14(7). (with Ethan Ligon, Badal Malick, and Carly Trachtman)
Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Female Teachers. 2016. Journal of Human Resources, 51(2), 28. (Lead Article) (with Karthik Muralidharan)
Gender Discrimination in the Family. 2014. In E. Redmount (Ed.), The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth. (pp. 237-266). (with Prashant Bharadwaj and Gordan B. Dahl)
Working Papers:
Discrimination and Access to Capital: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (with Shibiru Ayalew and Shanthi Manian)
Selected Works in Progress:
Can Incentives Change Beliefs? A Field Experiment in Uganda (with JohnBosco Asiimwe, Denise Ferris, Shanthi Manian, and Sarojini Hirshleifer)
Gender and Nutrition Sensitive Agricultural Extension (with Niklas Beuhren, Adiam Hagos Hailemichael, and Estelle Koussoube)
Getting Girls Back in School: The Returns to Alternative Education in Tanzania (with James Khakshi and SK Tariquzzaman)
Leading School Recovery from COVID-19: Experimental Evidence on Post-Pandemic School Leadership Training (with Lee Crawford and Todd Pugatch)
Selecting Effective Teachers: A Field Experiment in Madagascar (with Peter Holland and Aprajit Mahajan)
Understanding and Developing Accountability in Ghanaian Schools (with Angela Owusu Ansah and Julius Ruschenpohler)
