Working Papers:

Big Sisters
Joint with Lia Fernald, Heather Knauer, and Owen Ozier

Evaluating the Effects of an Early Literacy Intervention
Accepted based on Stage 1 Pre-Results Review at Journal of Development Economics
Joint with Lia Fernald, Healther Knauer, and Owen Ozier
Trial Registry Information

Gender Gaps in Education: The Long View
CGD Working Paper #523
Joint with Maryam Akmal and David K. Evans

Gendered Language
CGD Working Paper #500
Joint with Owen Ozier
Online Appendix


A Firm of One's Own:  Experimental Evidence On Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice
World Bank Policy Resarch Working Paper #7977
Joint with Andrew Brudevold, Maddalena Honorati, and Owen Ozier
Trial Registry Information

There's No Place Like Home:  Theory and Evidence on Decentralization and Politician Preferences
Joint with Vivian Hoffmann, Michael Kremer, Ryan Sheely, and Matthew Goodkin-Gold


Publications:

How Soon Is Now?  Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments
Experimental Economics, 2020, 23: 294-321
Joint with Uttara Balakrishnan and Johannes Haushofer

Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition Through Parent-Child Book Sharing: a Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2020, 50: 179-190
Joint with Frances Aboud, Lia Fernald, Heather Knauer, and Owen Ozier

Multilingual Assessment of Early Child Development:  Analyses from Repeated Observations of Children in Kenya
Developmental Science, 2019, 22(5): e12875
Joint with Lia Fernald, Patricia Kariger, Heather Knauer, and Owen Ozier

The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences:  Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101(3): 547-549
Joint with Owen Ozier

Unconditional Cash Transfers for Clinical and Economic Outcomes Among HIV-Affected Ugandan Households:  A Bayesian Randomised Trial
AIDS, 2018, 32(14): 2023-2031
Joint with Ed Mills, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Josephine Birungi, Stephen Okoboi, Teddy Chimulwa, Wangisi Jonathan, Tina Achilla, Evan Popoff, Shirin Golchi, and Dean Karlan

Distributional Preferences and Political Behavior
Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 155: 1-10
Joint with Raymond Fisman and Shachar Kariv
Online Appendix

Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorem?  Experimental Evidence from Village Economies
Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83(1): 231-268
Joint with Owen Ozier
Online Appendix


The Distributional Preferences of an Elite
Science, 2015, 349(6254)
Joint with Raymond Fisman, Shachar Kariv, and Daniel Markovits


How Fair Shares Compare:  Experimental Evidence from Two Cultures
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 118: 40-54
Experimental Instructions

You've Earned It:  Estimating the Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences
Experimental Economics, 2015, 18(3): 385-407
Joint with Edward Miguel and Vera te Velde
Online Appendix

How Did Distributional Preferences Change During the Great Recession?
Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 128: 84-95
Joint with Raymond Fisman and Shachar Kariv
Online Appendix

Using Economic Experiments to Measure Informal Institutions
In Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Growth: the Legacy of Douglass North
Cambridge University Press, edited by Sebastian Galiani and Itai Sened, 2014

Equity vs. Efficiency vs. Self-Interest
Experimental Economics, 2013, 16(2): 208-221
Experimental Instructions

Social Preferences and Fairness Norms as Informal Institutions:  Experimental Evidence
American Economic Review:  Papers and Proceedings, 2011, 101(3):  509-513

Microfinance Games
American Economic Journal:  Applied Economics, 2010, 2(3):  60-95
Joint with Dean Karlan, Xavier Giné, and Jonathan Morduch

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