Working Papers
Labor Market Anatomy of a Macroeconomic Crisis
with Lu, Pedtke, and Schoellman, October 2024.
Accepted subject to major revisions, Journal of Monetary Economics
Industrial Policy with Development Characteristics: Fertilizer Subsidies in Times of Crisis
with Brooks, March 2026
Revision requested, Journal of Political Economy
Other: [VoxDev]
Market Access and Economic Development: Evidence from Randomized Bridges in Rwanda
In Progress
Constructing Africa's Cities: Labor Market Effects of Infrastructure Construction
with Kirchberger, Milusheva, Newman, and Thorne
Household Labor Supply Insurance Around the World
with Bacher, Grübener, Nord, and Schoellman
Published
From Micro to Macro in an Equilibrium Diffusion Model
with Brooks and Johnson, March 2024.
Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics
The Role of Labor Market Frictions in Structural Transformation
with Schoellman. 2024. Oxford Development Studies, 51 (4): 362 - 374.
Special issue on STEG's review of structural transformation
Labor Market Dynamics and Development [appendix]
with Lu and Schoellman. 2023. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138(4): 2287 - 2325.
Other: [data website] [VoxDev podcast]
Cash Transfers as a Response to COVID-19: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
with Brooks, Johnson, and Oluoch-Aridi, 2022. Journal of Development Economics, 158: 102929
Other: [J-PAL] [The Standard, reprinted in Nation]
The Equilibrium Impact of Agricultural Risk on Intermediate Inputs and Aggregate Productivity [appendix]
2021. Review of Economic Studies, 88(5): 2275-2307.
Eliminating Uncertainty in Market Access: The Impact of New Bridges in Rural Nicaragua [appendix 1] [appendix 2]
with Brooks. 2020. Econometrica, 88(5): 1965 - 1997.
Other: [VoxDev] [A Fine Theorem]
Factors Affecting College Attainment and Student Ability in the U.S. since 1900 [appendix]
with Herrington. 2019. Review of Economic Dynamics, 31(1): 224 - 244.
Mentors or Teachers? Microenterprise Training in Kenya [appendix]
with Brooks and Johnson. 2018. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(4): 196 - 221.
Other: [VoxDev]
Other Stuff (non-peer reviewed or in other fields)
Is There a Cost-Effective Means of Training Microenterprises?
with Brooks and Johnson. 2020. World Bank Economic Review (Supplement), 34(1): 63 - 67.
Engineering environmental resilience: A matched cohort study of the community benefits of trailbridges in rural Rwanda
with Thomas, Bradshaw, Mugabo, MacDonald, Brooks, and Dickinson.
2021. Science of the Total Environment, 771: 145275.