Effects of a Universal Basic Income during the pandemic.
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How is UBI effecting the lives of low-income communities in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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General equilibrium effects of cash transfers: experimental evidence from Kenya.
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Revise and resubmit, Econometrica.
How does an inflow of ~15% of GDP affect a poor rural economy?
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Identity verification standards in welfare programs: experimental evidence from India
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How does requiring stricter, biometric ID trade off errors of inclusion and exclusion?
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General equilibrium effects of (improving) public employment programs
Revise and resubmit, Econometrica.
How does offering large-scale public employment affect rural markets?
recent working papers
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Forthcoming, Games and Economic Behavior
What are the roles of self-interest and other-regard in persuasion? (experimental instructions).
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Improving last-mile service delivery using phone-based monitoring (.bib)
Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Does simply calling people to measure service delivery outcomes improve them?
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Universal Basic Income in the developing world
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Annual Review of Economics 11, August 2019, pp. 959-983.
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Journal of Economic Perspectives 31(4), Fall 2017, pp. 103-24.
Should program evaluations in development economics be "bigger"?
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Building state capacity: evidence from biometric Smartcards in India
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American Economic Review 106(1), 2016, pp. 2895-2929.
Does investing in biometric payments infrastructure enhance state capacity and performance?
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The marginal rate of corruption in public programs
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Journal of Public Economics 104, 2013, pp. 52-64.
How should policy-makers determine the optimal size of "leaky" public programs?
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Corruption dynamics: the golden goose effect
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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 5 (4), 2013, pp. 230-69.
With Sandip Sukhtankar.
Do corrupt agents respond to dynamic incentives as predicted by the Becker-Stigler theory?
Winner, Best Paper Prize (2014), AEJ: Economic Policy
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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 5 (1), 2013, pp. 206-238.
With Antonia Attanassova, Mariane Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan.
How should a social planner design targeting rules when he knows the implementing agents are corrupt?
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American Economic Review 102 (7), 2012, pp. 3516-30.
Do donors use foreign aid (ODA) to influence elections in developing countries?
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Journal of Political Economy 119 (4), 2011, pp. 686-720.
Do decentralized exchanges of knowledge lead to efficient aggregate learning?
publications
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Managing self-confidence: theory and experimental evidence
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Revise and resubmit.
Do people bias their learning behavior to protect their own self-image? (experimental instructions)
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Why isn't altruistic behavior more effective?
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Education and knowledge spillovers
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What spillover mechanism is most consistent with reduced-form models, knowledge policy, and the data?
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Maternal cash transfers.
Is a transfer to pregnant and nursing mothers an effective way to reduce child malnutrition in Jharkhand?
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Universal Basic Income.
What happens if you guarantee everyone in a community a basic income for over a decade?
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Structuring cash transfers.
Can we use behavioral economics to design smarter transfers to the extreme poor?
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Policy evaluation by revealed preference.
What mode of public service delivery do beneficiaries choose if we let them vote with their feet?
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Social learning and consumer demand.
How do peers in a social network affect demand for new products?
other working papers / work in progress
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Tavneet Suri and I put together some numbers to track the representation of women in various development economics research groups and forums. Please contact one of us if you spot errors or would like to contribute numbers.