Papers

Gender and Labor

“Drivers of Change: How Intra-household Preferences Shape Employment Responses to Gender Reform” (with Chaza Abou Daher, Kendal Swanson, and Kate Vyborny). Under review.

“Women's Mobility and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan” (with Kate Vyborny). April 2022. ADB Economics Working Paper 655.

“On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms” (with Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, and Charity Troyer Moore). American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (7), pp. 2342-75.

“Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs” (with Arielle Bernhardt, Rohini Pande, and Natalia Rigol). American Economic Review: Insights, September 2019, 1(2): 141–160.

“Male Social Status and Women’s Work” (with Arielle Bernhardt, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, and Charity Troyer-Moore). May 2018. American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings; 108(5): 363-67.

“Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?” (with Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande, and Natalia Rigol). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2016, 8(2):125-53.

“Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India” (with Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Pande). American Economics Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2010, 100(2):125-29.

Health

“The Lifesaving Benefits of Water Infrastructure: Quantifying the Mortality Impact of Abandoning Shallow Tubewells in Bangladesh” (with Nina Buchmann, Reshma Hussam and Rachel Glennerster). Under review.
 

“Loss in the Time of Cholera: Long-run Impact of a Disease Epidemic on the Urban Landscape” (with Attila Ambrus and Robert Gonzalez). American Economic Review, February 2020, 110(2):1-52.
 

“Do Dehydroepiandrosterone, Progesterone, and Testosterone Influence Women’s Depression and Anxiety Levels? Evidence from Hair-Based Hormonal Measures of 2105 Rural Indian Women” (with Andreas Walther, Carolyn Tsao, Rohini Pande, Clements Kirschbaum, and Lisa Berkman). Psychoneuroendocrinology, 109, July 2019.
 

“Iron Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Peru” (with Alberto Chong, Isabelle Cohen, Eduardo Nakasone and Maximo Torero). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2016, 8(4): 222-255. [cross listed in Human Capital]
 

“Health Insurance in Nicaragua: Enrollment, Retention, and Outcomes from a Randomized Experiment” (with Rebecca Thornton, Laurel Hyatt, and Mursaleena Islam). September 2010, Health Economics, 19(S1): 181–206.
 

“Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania” (with Omar Robles and Maximo Torero). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2009, 1(4):140-169.  [cross listedin Human Capital]

Housing and Property Rights

“Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Slum Relocation Program in India” (with Sharon Barnhardt and Rohini Pande). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2017, 9(1):1-32.
 

“Entitled to Work: Urban Tenure Security and Labor Supply in Peru.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2007, 4(122): 1561-1602.
 

“Globalization, Crop Choice and Property Rights in Rural Peru, 1994-2004” (with Alfred Field), Chapter 14 in The Poor under Globalization in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Edited by Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke, UNU-WIDER for Oxford University Press, 2009. (WIDER Research Paper No. 2007/72 (ISSN: 1810-2611)).
 

 
“Segregation, Rent Control and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflicts in an Indian City" (with Rohini Pande and Sujata Visaria), American Economics Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2008, 98(2): 505-510.
 

 
“Impact Evaluation for Slum Upgrading Interventions” (with Michael Kremer), Doing Impact Evaluation Series #3, World Bank, July 2006.
 

 
“Property Rights and Investment in Urban Slums” Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, April-May 2005, 3(2-3): 279-290.
 

“Property Rights, Community Public Goods and Household Time Allocation in Urban Squatter Communities” William and Mary Law Review, February 2004, 45(3): 837-887.
 

“Diferencias en el Acceso de las Mujeres al Microcrédito en el Perú e Impacto de la Tenencia del Título de Propiedad” (with Maximo Torero), Gender, Poverty and Micro-credit, CIES, Lima, Peru, 2004. [cross listed in Microfinance]

Human Capital

“Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock” (with Patrick Agte, Arielle Bernhardt, Rohini Pande, and Natalia Rigol). Revised and resubmitted, American Economic Review.
 

“Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? Experimental Evidence from Myanmar” (with Elisa Maffioli). Revise and resubmit, Economic Development and Cultural Change.
 

“Does Vocational Education Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mongolia” (with Leigh Linden, Ofer Malamud, Daniel Rubenson, and Shing-Yi Wang). NBER Working Paper No. 26092, July 2019. Working paper.
 

“Iron Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Peru” (with Alberto Chong, Isabelle Cohen, Eduardo Nakasone and Maximo Torero). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2016, 8(4): 222-255.  [cross listed in Health]
 

“Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania” (with Omar Robles and Maximo Torero). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2009, 1(4):140-169.  [cross listed in Health]
 

“Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice: Evidence from a Financial Aid Experiment at NYU Law School” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2009, 1(1): 1-21.
 

“Early Marriage, Age of Menarche and Female Schooling Attainment in Bangladesh” (with Attila Ambrus). Journal of Political Economy, October 2008, 116(5): 881-930.  [cross listed in Child Marriage]

Intimate Partner Violence

"Guy Talk: Catalyzing Peer Effects on IPV through Virtual Support Groups for Men" (with Christopher Boyer, Rachel Lehrer, Andrew Morrison, and Claudia Piras). IDB Working Paper. January 2025.
 

“COVID-19, Job Loss, and Intimate Partner Violence in Peru” (with Jorge Aguero, Ignacio Rodriguez Hurtado, and Javier Romero). Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023, forthcoming.
 

“A Ballot Approach to Measuring Domestic Violence in Peru” (with Jorge Aguero, Ursula Aldana, Javier Romero, and Veronica Frischano). August 2023. Working paper. [cross listed in Survey Methods]
 

"Is Remote Sensing Data Useful for Studying the Association between Pandemic-Related Changes in Economic Activity and Intimate Partner Violence?" (with Jorge Agüero, Ignacio Rodriguez Hurtado, and Javier Romero). May 2022. American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings, 112: 277-81. [cross listed in Survey Methods]
 

“Is Community-based Targeting Effective in Identifying Intimate Partner Violence?” (with Jorge Aguero, Ursula Aldana, Veronica Frisancho and Javier Romero). May 2020. American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings; 110(5). [cross listed in Survey Methods]

Marriage and Fertility

“Gendered Spheres of Learning and Household Decision-Making over Fertility” (with Nava Ashraf, Alessandra Voena, and Roberta Ziparo). Revised and resubmitted, Review of Economic Studies.
 

“The Costs and Benefits of Cousin Marriage” (with Mohammed Al-Shafaee, Seema Jayachandran, and Munir Squires). September 2023. Working paper.
 

“Information Gaps and de jure Legal Rights: Evidence from Pakistan” (with Kate Vyborny). September 2020. EDI Working Paper Series.
 

“The Marriage Market Value of Bride Age and Education: A Vignette Approach to Decomposing to Marriage Transfers in Rural Bangladesh” (with Nina Buchmann and Rachel Glennerster). October 2019. Working paper, Duke University.
 

“Traditional Beliefs and Learning about Maternal Risk in Zambia” (with Nava Ashraf, Giuditta Rusconi, Alessandra Voena, and Roberta Ziparo). May 2017. American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings, 107 (5): 511- 15.
 

“Gender Gaps in Completed Fertility” (with Vera Molitor, Alice Schoonbroodt, and Michèle Tertilt). Journal of Demographic Economics, June 2016, 82(2):167-206.
 

“Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia” (with Nava Ashraf and Jean Lee). American Economic Review, July 2014, 104(7): 2210-37.
 

“The Psycho-Social Benefits of Access to Contraception: Experimental Evidence from Zambia” (with Nava Ashraf, Marric Buessing and Jessica Leight). October 2013. Working paper, Duke University.
 

“Does Improving Access to Contraception Lower Excess Fertility? Experimental Evidence from Zambia” (with Nava Ashraf and Jessica Leight). November 2012. Working paper, Duke University.
 

“Muslim Family Law, Prenuptial Agreements and the Emergence of Dowry in Bangladesh” (with Attila Ambrus and Maximo Torero). Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2010, 125(3):1349–97.

Microfinance

“Why Don't Jobseekers Search More? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job Matching Platform” (with Robert Garlick, Nivedhitha Subramanian, and Kate Vyborny). Under review.

“Does the Arrival of a Formal Financial Institution Alter Community-Level Cooperation? Experimental Evidence from India” (with Christine Binzel, Rohini Pande, and Louise Paul-Delvaux). September 2023. Working paper.

 
“Rural Banks Can Reduce Poverty: Experimental Evidence from 870 Indian Villages” (with Giorgia Barboni and Rohini Pande). September 2023. Working paper.

 
“Banking on Transparency for the Poor: Experimental Evidence from India” (with Natalia Rigol, Charity Troyer Moore, Rohini Pande, and Simone Schaner). July 2022. NBER Working Paper 30289.

 
“Market Integration, Other-Regarding Preferences, and Trust: Evidence from a Randomized Bank Branch Rollout in India” (with Christine Binzel and Rohini Pande). November 2019. Working paper.

 
“Microfinance: Points of Promise” (with Abraham Holland and Rohini Pande) in Evolving Approaches to the Economics of Public Policy: Views of Award-Winning Economists. Edited by Jean Kimmel, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2016, 11-32.

 
“Do Group Dynamics Influence Social Capital and Female Empowerment? Experimental Evidence from Microfinance” (with Benjamin Feigenberg, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, and Shayak Sarkar). Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, August 2014, 33(4): 932-949.

 
“Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India” (with Rohini Pande, John Papp and Natalia Rigol). American Economic Review, October 2013, 103(6): 2196-2226.

 
“The Economic Returns to Social Interaction: Experimental Evidence from Microfinance” (with Rohini Pande and Benjamin Feigenberg). Review of Economic Studies, October 2013, 80(4): 1459-1483.

 
“Repayment Flexibility Can Reduce Financial Stress: A Randomized Control Trial with Microfinance Clients in India” (with Rohini Pande, John Papp, and Y. Jeanette Park). PLoS One, September 2012, 7(9): e45679.

 
“Repayment Frequency and Default in Micro-finance: Evidence from India” (with Rohini Pande), Journal of European Economics Association Papers and Proceedings, April-May 2008, 6(2-3): 501-509.

 
“Diferencias en el Acceso de las Mujeres al Microcrédito en el Perú e Impacto de la Tenencia del Título de Propiedad” (with Maximo Torero), in Gender, Poverty and Micro-credit, CIES, Lima, Peru, 2004. [cross listed in Housing and Property Rights]

Survey Methods

“Measuring Time Use in Rural India: Design and Validation of a Low-Cost Survey Module” (with Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Elena Stacy, and Charity Troyer Moore). Journal of Development Economics, September 2023, 164, 103105.
 

“A Ballot Approach to Measuring Domestic Violence in Peru” (with Jorge Aguero, Ursula Aldana, Javier Romero, and Veronica Frischano). August 2023. Working paper. [Cross listed in Intimate Partner Violence]
 

"Is Remote Sensing Data Useful for Studying the Association between Pandemic-Related Changes in Economic Activity and Intimate Partner Violence?" (with Jorge Agüero, Ignacio Rodriguez Hurtado, and Javier Romero). May 2022. American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings, 112: 277-81. [Cross listed in Intimate Partner Violence]
 

“Is Community-based Targeting Effective in Identifying Intimate Partner Violence?” (with Jorge Aguero, Ursula Aldana, Veronica Frisancho and Javier Romero). May 2020. American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings; 110(5). [Cross listed in Intimate Partner Violence]