Published and Forthcoming
“Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi” (Registered pre-analysis plan). Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science (with Amanda Clayton, Boniface Dulani, and Amanda Robinson)
“Designing and Implementing Experiments within Local Bureaucratic Systems: A Cautionary Tale from an Educator Incentive Program.” Forthcoming, Education Finance and Policy (with Naureen Karachiwalla, Saher Asad, Masooma Habib, Clare Lever, and Attique Ur Rehman)
“Does Relative Deprivation Condition the Effects of Social Protection on Political Attitudes? Experimental Evidence from Pakistan” (2024). American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 68, No. 2: p. 832-849 (with Cecilia H. Mo)
“Women’s Involvement in Intra-household Decision-making and Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Central Asia” (2024). World Development, Vol. 178 (with Dilnovoz Abdurazzakova and Ziyodullo Parpiev)
“Making Complementary Agricultural Resources, Technologies, and Services More Gender-responsive” (2024). Global Food Security, Vol. 42 (with Melissa Hidrobo, Hom Gartaula, Bjorn Van Campenhout, and Lucia Carrillo)
“Housing Values and Jurisdictional Fragmentation” (2024). Public Choice, Vol. 201, p. 83-122 (with John W. Hatfield and Luke P. Rodgers)
Winner, 2024 Duncan Black Prize - Public Choice Society
“Using Climate Financing Wisely to Address Multiple Crises” (2024), PLOS Climate, Vol 3, No. 2 (with Peter Laderach, Bina Desai, Grazia Pacillo, Shalini Roy, Sandra Ruckstuhl, and Ana Maria Loboguerrero)
“Land Reform and Child Health in the Kyrgyz Republic” (2024). Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 72, No. 2 (with Olga Shemyakina)
“Global Food Policy Report 2023: Rethinking Food Crisis Responses” (2023). International Food Policy Research Institute (with Johan Swinnen and IFPRI Communications and Public Affairs Team)
“Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania” (2023). World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 37, No. 2: p. 221-234 (with David K. Evans)
“The Gendered Impacts of Income Fluctuations on Household Departure, Labor Supply, and Human Capital Decisions: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan” (2023). Feminist Economics, Vol. 29, No. 1, p. 205-235 (with Brian Holtemeyer, Jie Song, and Hongdi Zhao)
“The Educational Impacts of Cash Transfers in Tanzania” (2023). Economics of Education Review, Vol. 92, p. 102332 (with Charles Gale and David K. Evans)
“Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers on Fish Consumption: Evidence from Tanzania” (2023), Marine Resource Economics, Vol. 38, No. 4: p. 391-411 (with Kyle Montanio and Emi Uchida)
“Aspirations and Women's Empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan.” (2022). Economics of Transition and Institutional Change (with Kamiljon Akramov, Bakhrom Mirkasimov, and Jie Song)
“The Effects of Income Fluctuations on Undernutrition and Overnutrition Across the Lifecycle” (2021). Health Economics, Vol. 30, No. 10: p. 2487-2509 (with Jie Song)
“How Does Poverty Influence Women’s Empowerment? Evidence from an Experiment in Papua New Guinea” (2021). World Development, Vol. 138 (with Cecilia H. Mo, Emily Schmidt, and Jie Song)
“Decentralization without Democracy” (2020). World Politics, Vol. 72, No. 2: p. 165-213 (with Tewodaj Mogues)
Winner, American Political Science Association (APSA) Deil S. Wright Paper Award for a paper on federalism and intergovernmental relations
“Public Investment Choices by Local and Central Governments” (2020). World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 34, No. 1: p. S52-S57. (with Tewodaj Mogues)
“Can Information Improve Rural Governance and Service Delivery?” (2020). World Development, Vol. 125, January: p. 1-13. (with Leonard Wantchekon)
Introduction of a special issue of World Development on “Information, Governance, and Rural Service Delivery” I co-edited with Leonard Wantchekon
“The Countervailing Effects of Competition on Public Goods Provision: When Bargaining Failures Lead to Bad Outcomes” (2019). American Political Science Review, Vol. 113, No. 1: p. 88-107. (with Jessica Gottlieb)
“Temporary and Permanent Migrant Selection: Theory and Evidence of Ability-Search Cost Dynamics” (2019). Review of Development Economics, Vol. 23, No. 4, p. 1477-1519. (with Joyce Chen and Valerie Mueller)
“Local Environmental Quality and Inter-Jurisdictional Spillovers” (2019). Economica, Vol. 86, No. 343: p. 569-606. (with John W. Hatfield)
“Moving to Despair? Migration and Well-Being in Pakistan” (2019). World Development, Vol. 113, January: p. 186-203. (with Joyce Chen and Valerie Mueller)
“Domestic migration makes people sadder and less calm, finds study” (2018). The Print.
“Domestic migrants experience substantial decline in mental and physical health, finds study” (2018). The Hindu Business Line.
“Cash Transfers Increase Trust in Local Government” (2019). World Development, Vol. 114, February: p. 138-155. (with David K. Evans and Brian Holtemeyer)
“Cash Transfers and Health: Evidence from Tanzania” (2019). World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 33, No. 2: p. 394-412. (with David K. Evans and Brian Holtemeyer)
“The Effect of Land Inheritance on Youth Employment and Migration Decisions: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia” (2018). American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 100, No. 3: p. 931-954. (with Hosaena Ghebru, Brian Holtemeyer, Valerie Mueller, and Emily Schmidt)
“Political Competition and Rural Welfare: Evidence from Pakistan” (2018). Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 70, No. 4: p. 1036-1061. (with Hamza Haider, David Spielman, and Fatima Zaidi)
“Aspirations and the Role of Social Protection: Evidence from a Natural Disaster in Rural Pakistan” (2017). World Development, Vol. 97, p. 49-66. (with Cecilia H. Mo)
“The Hidden Cost of A Disaster? Your Ambition” (2017). NPR, Morning Edition (by Nurith Aizenman)
“Economic Development, Mobility, and Political Discontent: An Experimental Test of Tocqueville’s Thesis in Pakistan” (2017). American Political Science Review, Vol. 111, No. 3: p. 605-621. (with Andrew Healy and Cecilia H. Mo)
“Relying on the Private Sector: The Income Distribution and Public Investments in the Poor” (2014). Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 107, p. 320-342.
“Heat Stress Increases Long-term Human Migration in Rural Pakistan” (2014). Nature Climate Change, Vol. 4, p. 182-185. (with Valerie Mueller and Clark Gray)
“The Child Health Implications of Privatizing Africa’s Urban Water Supply” (2014). Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 35, p. 1-19.
“Federal Competition and Economic Growth” (2013). Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 93, No. 1, p. 144-159. (with John W. Hatfield)
“For higher incomes, compete!” (2012). The Boston Globe (by Kevin Lewis)
“Malnutrition, Child Health, and Water Quality: Is There a Role for Private Sector Participation in South Asia?” (2012). CESifo Economics Studies, Vol. 58, No. 2, p. 450-470.
“Has Private Participation in Water and Sewerage Improved Coverage? Empirical Evidence from Latin America” (2009). Journal of International Development, Vol. 21, No. 3, p. 327-361. (with George R.G. Clarke and Scott Wallsten)
“Public or Private Drinking Water? The Effects of Ownership and Benchmark Competition on U.S. Water System Regulatory Compliance and Household Water Expenditures” (2008). International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 26, No. 1, p. 186-205. (with Scott Wallsten)
Under Review and in Progress
“Can Role Models and Skills Training Increase Women’s Voice in Asset Selection? Experimental Evidence from Odisha, India” IFPRI Discussion Paper 02315 (Registered pre-analysis plan, with Jordan Kyle, Sudha Narayanan, Kalyani Raghunathan, and Soumyajit Ray)
“Power With: Conceptualizing and Measuring Women’s Collective Agency” Gender Platform Discussion Paper 22 (with Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Hagar ElDidi, Audrey Pereira, Jessica Heckert, Eileen Nchanji, Greg Seymour, and Cheryl Doss)
"The Uneven Impacts of Social Transfers on State-Society Dynamics and Citizen Interactions” Invited manuscript prepared for Annual Review of Resource Economics (Under review, with Cecilia H. Mo)
“Conflict, Aspirations, and Women’s Empowerment: Household Survey Evidence from Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Nigeria“ HiCN Working Paper Series (with Mulubrhan Amare, Lucia Carrillo, and Jordan Kyle)
“Unlocking Locally-led Resilience Amid Conflict and Climate Stress: Views from Community Leaders in Mali on Development Priorities, Aid Distribution, and Anticipatory Action” (2024). IFPRI Discussion Paper 02272 (Registered pre-analysis plan, with Jaimie Bleck, Lucia Carrillo, Jessica Gottlieb, Jordan Kyle, and Moumouni Soumano)
“How Can Anticipatory Action Programming Support Women? Application of the Reach-Benefit-Empower-Transform Framework in Nepal and Nigeria“ IFPRI Discussion Paper 02298 (with Teresa Gonzales, Jordan Kyle, Ana Madero, Caitlin Mittrick, Emily Myers, Agnes Quisumbing, and Amica Rapadas)
“Claim-making Under India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): Barriers and Opportunities for Women’s Voice and Agency Over Asset Selection“ IFPRI Discussion Paper 02247 (with Jordan Kyle, Sudha Narayanan, Kalyani Raghunathan, and Soumyajit Ray)
“Bringing Power to the People or the Well-Connected? Evidence from Ethiopia on the Gendered Effects of Decentralizing Service Delivery” IFPRI Discussion Paper 01992 (with Jie Song and Hongdi Zhao)
“When Will Civil Society Sanction the State? Evidence from Mali” IFPRI Discussion Paper 02169 (Registered pre-analysis plan, with Jaimie Bleck and Jessica Gottlieb)
“The Effects of Cellphone Coverage Expansion on Wealth and Political Behavior” (with Shuning Ge, Guy Grossman, Benjamin Laughlin, and Apoorva Lal)
“The Impact of Experiential Learning Interventions on Sustainable Water Management: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in India” (Registered pre-analysis plan, with Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Thomas Falk, Pratiti Priyadarshini, Richu Sanil, Mequanint Melesse, Wei Zhang, Lucia Carrillo, and Hagar ElDidi)
“Metaketa V: Women's Action Committees and Local Services” (Registered Meta pre-analysis plan, with Susan D. Hyde, Edmund Malesky, Alexander Coppock, Mathias Poertner, Lauren E Young, Claire Adida, Leonardo Arriola, Ali Cheema, Asiyati Chiweza, Amanda Clayton, Boniface Dulani, Damir Esenaliev, Anselm Hager (né Rink), Lukas Hensel, Amanda Lea Robinson, Sarah Khan, Elnura Kazakbaeva, Aila Matanock, Cecilia H. Mo, Shandana Khan Mohmand, Quynh Nguyen, Eitan Paul, Soledad Prillaman, Mai Thanh Truong, Paul Schuler, and Markus Taussig)
“Overcoming Barriers to Women’s Political Participation through Advocacy Training: A Field Experiment in Nigeria” (Registered pre-analysis plan, with Claire Adida, Leonardo Arriola, Jordan Kyle, Aila Matanock, Cecilia H. Mo, Dolapo Adeyanju, and Rachel Fisher)
“Can Trainings on Women’s Voice and Agency Raise Women’s Aspirations, Entrepreneurial Activities, and Well-being? Evidence From Rural Nigeria” (Registered pre-analysis plan – with Jordan Kyle and Cecilia Mo)
“Elites’ Response to Women’s Action Committees and Local Services in Nigeria” (Registered pre-analysis plan, with Claire Adida, Leonardo Arriola, Rachel Fisher, Jordan Kyle, and Cecilia H. Mo)
“Reverting to Traditional Views of Gender During Times of Relative Deprivation: An Experimental Study in Nepal” (Registered pre-analysis plan, Under review, with Cecilia H. Mo, Soosun You, and Margaret Boittin)
“When Women Hold Local Office: Women’s Representation and Political Engagement Amid Conflict and Climate Shocks Across Africa” (IFPRI Discussion Paper 02230, with Jordan Kyle and Hiroyuki Takeshima)
Book Chapters, Policy Briefs, and Other Studies
“Strengthening women’s voice and agency in Nigeria: Evidence from a randomized control trial on women’s advocacy and men’s allyship trainings“ (2024). IFPRI Policy Note (with Claire Adida, Jordan Kyle, Cecilia H. Mo, Leonardo Arriola, Dolapo Adeyanju, and Rachel Fisher)
“Enhancing women’s economic empowerment in rural Nigeria through advocacy trainings“ (2024). IFPRI Project Note (with Jordan Kyle and Cecilia H. Mo)
“Measuring women's empowerment in fragile settings: Practical guidance and notes from the field“ (2024). Fragility, Conflict, and Migration Initiative Project Note (with Kate Ambler, Jeffrey R. Bloem, Elodie Becquey, Malick Dione, Loty Diop, Aulo Gelli, Jessica Heckert, Jordan Kyle, Isabel Lambrecht, Mohru Mardonova, Rewa Misra, Abdoulaye Pedehombga, Sharanya Rajiv, and Julia Wagner)
“Impact evaluation of the economic inclusion programme in Kenya: Baseline report for cohort 2“ (2024). Fragility, Conflict, and Migration Initiative Project Note (with Kibrom Abay, Hailemariam Ayalew, Daniel Gilligan, Melissa Hidrobo, Sally Kimathi, and Yalew Mekonnen)
“Scaling up experiential learning for water management“ (2024). IFPRI Project Note (with Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Thomas Falk, Richu Sanil, Hagar ElDidi, Wei Zhang, Mequanint B. Melesse, and Vishwambhar Duche)
“Gender and age gaps in voice & agency in community governance: The value of female local political representation in India and Africa South of the Sahara under intensifying conflicts and climate uncertainty” (2024). IFPRI Policy Note (with Hiroyuki Takeshima, Jordan Kyle, and Kalyani Raghunathan)
“Local governance in anticipatory action and crisis response: A new study in Mali” (2023). CGIAR Project Paper (with Jaimie Bleck, Jessica Gottlieb, Jordan Kyle, and Moumouni Soumano)
“Women’s Leadership and Implications for Climate Resilience: A Conceptual Framework” (2023). CGIAR Research Initiative on Gender Equality Project Report (with Elizabeth Bryan, Marlène Elias, Katrina Kosec, Jordan Kyle, Miranda Morgan, and Dina Najjar)
“CGIAR’s evidence and solutions to tackle farmer-herder conflicts” (2023). CGIAR Policy Brief (with Peter Laderach, Fiona Flintan, Benson Kenduiywo, Theresa Liebig, and Grazia Pacillo)
“Gender in Rural Institutions and Governance: A Review of Existing Tools” (2021). CGIAR GENDER Platform Working Paper 002 (with Hagar ElDidi and Ruth Meinzen-Dick)
“‘Feminization’ of Agriculture: Examining the Evidence” (2021). In Advancing Gender Equality Through Agricultural and Environmental Research: Past, Present, and Future, IFPRI, Washington, DC (with Cheryl Doss, Alessandra Galie, Vanya Slavchevska, and Ayesha Qaisrani) [Policy Event]
“Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali” (2021). Working Paper, OSF Preprints. (with Jaimie Bleck and Jessica Gottlieb) [Raw data, survey instrument]
“Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali” (2021). IFPRI Issue Brief. (with Jaimie Bleck, Jessica Gottlieb, and Lindsey Boss)
“Mechanisms for increasing the accountability of teachers and schools in rural Pakistan to improve learning outcomes” (2020). IGC Policy Brief 37404. (with Saher Asad, Masooma Habib, Naureen Karachiwalla, Clare Leaver, and Attique ur Rehman)
“Gender and Rural Transformation” (2020). IFPRI Policy Brief. (with Cheryl Doss and Vanya Slavchevska)
“How to improve rural service delivery in developing countries: Complementarities, information, and incentives” (2019). IFPRI Policy Brief. (with Catherine Ragasa)
“Making Institutions Work for Rural Revitalization” (2019). In IFPRI Global Food Policy Report 2019. (with Danielle Resnick)
“Public Goods Provision in Developing Countries: A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics” (2018). In A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics, Claude Menard and Mary Shirley (eds.). Northampton & Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Pub.
“Public Service Delivery for Rural Development,” 2016. In Agriculture and the Rural Economy in Pakistan: Issues, Outlooks, and Policy Priorities. University of Pennsylvania Press.
“Understanding the Aspirations of the Rural Poor,” 2016. In Agriculture and the Rural Economy in Pakistan: Issues, Outlooks, and Policy Priorities. University of Pennsylvania Press.
“Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania: Results from a Randomized Trial” (2014). World Bank Study. (with David K. Evans, Stephanie Hausladen, and Natasha Reese)
“Early Child Education: Making Programs Work for Brazil's Most Important Generation” (2012). World Bank Study. (with David K. Evans)
“The Iraq War: The Economic Costs” (2006). The Milken Institute Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, p. 16-23. (with Scott Wallsten)
“What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy” (2007). The New York Times
“Paying for Iraq: Blood and Treasure” (2006). The Economist
“Iraq War Costs Outweigh Gains, Some Experts Say” (2006). The New York Times
“When Talk of Guns and Butter Includes Lives Lost” (2006). The New York Times
“The Ones Who Preserve Our Identities: Women, Children, and Plan Colombia” (2003). Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 4, p. 46-48.