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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:
Improving school management to low and middle income countries: A systematic review. 2023. Economics of Education Review. (with Gautam Anand, Aishwarya Atluri, Lee Crawford, and Todd Pugatch)
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). Under Review.
Selected Works in Progress:
Can Incentives Change Beliefs? A Field Experiment in Uganda (with JohnBosco Asiimwe, Denise Ferris, Sarojini Hirshleifer, and Shanthi Manian). Data Collection Completed.
Gender, Competition, and Requests for Capital: Experimental Evidence on Female Prioritization (with Shanthi Manian). Data Collection Ongoing.
Gender, Harassment, and the Profit Gap: Survey Evidence from Ethiopia (with Trinity Douglas and Shanthi Manian). Data Collection Completed.
Gender and Nutrition Sensitive Agricultural Extension (with Niklas Beuhren and Estelle Koussoube). Data Collection Completed.
Do Punishments Affect Willingness to Report Misbehavior (with Quy Lam). Data Collection Ongoing.
Getting Low-Income Adolescents Back in School: The Returns to Secondary School Equivalency in Tanzania (with James Khakshi and SK Tariquzzaman). Data Collection Ongoing.
Leading School Recovery from COVID-19: Experimental Evidence on Post-Pandemic School Leadership Training (with Lee Crawford and Todd Pugatch). Intervention and Data Collection Completed.
What Drives the Gender Gap in Financial Sector Management: Evidence from Ethiopia (with Niklas Buehren, Girum Abebe Tefera, Toni Weis, and Saba Yifredew). Data Collection Ongoing.
Lifting Women's Labor Bans (with Trinity Douglas). Secondary Data Analysis.
Improving school management to low and middle income countries: A systematic review. 2023. Economics of Education Review. (with Gautam Anand, Aishwarya Atluri, Lee Crawford, and Todd Pugatch)
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). Under Review.
Selected Works in Progress:
Can Incentives Change Beliefs? A Field Experiment in Uganda (with JohnBosco Asiimwe, Denise Ferris, Sarojini Hirshleifer, and Shanthi Manian). Data Collection Completed.
Gender, Competition, and Requests for Capital: Experimental Evidence on Female Prioritization (with Shanthi Manian). Data Collection Ongoing.
Gender, Harassment, and the Profit Gap: Survey Evidence from Ethiopia (with Trinity Douglas and Shanthi Manian). Data Collection Completed.
Gender and Nutrition Sensitive Agricultural Extension (with Niklas Beuhren and Estelle Koussoube). Data Collection Completed.
Do Punishments Affect Willingness to Report Misbehavior (with Quy Lam). Data Collection Ongoing.
Getting Low-Income Adolescents Back in School: The Returns to Secondary School Equivalency in Tanzania (with James Khakshi and SK Tariquzzaman). Data Collection Ongoing.
Leading School Recovery from COVID-19: Experimental Evidence on Post-Pandemic School Leadership Training (with Lee Crawford and Todd Pugatch). Intervention and Data Collection Completed.
What Drives the Gender Gap in Financial Sector Management: Evidence from Ethiopia (with Niklas Buehren, Girum Abebe Tefera, Toni Weis, and Saba Yifredew). Data Collection Ongoing.
Lifting Women's Labor Bans (with Trinity Douglas). Secondary Data Analysis.