Working papers

The Returns to Skills During the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Uganda (with V. Bassi, I. Rasul and E. Spadini) [HBS Working Knowledge]

Meet Your Future: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Effects of Mentors (with M. Namubiru and S. Spaziani) [World Bank Blog] [VoxDev][J-Pal] This paper was awarded the Etta Chiuri Prize by  the Italian Society of Public Economics as outstanding paper written by an author under the age of forty

Whom would you rather work with? Uncovering the Referral Gender Gap (with P. De Souza Ferreira) - New draft coming soon!

Publications

Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya  (with M. Bauer, J. Chytilová and E. Miguel) Forthcoming. Journal of Development Economics, (2023) 103215, ISSN 0304-3878 [IZA Opinions]

Gender Gaps: Back and Here to Stay? Evidence from Skilled Ugandan Workers during COVID-19 (with M. Namubiru and S. Spaziani) Review of Economics of the Household, (2023) [Final draft] [IGC blog post] 

Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda (with O. Bandiera, V. Bassi, R. Burgess, I. Rasul, M. Sulaiman and A. Vitali) Econometrica, (2020) 88(6): 2369-2414 [Final draft] [J-PAL summary] [Microeconomic Insights column]

Selected work in progress

The Economics of Truth-Telling (with M. Bauer, J. Chytilová and E. Miguel) - Analysis stage

Indirect Experience (with G. G. Dossi) - Analysis stage [Abstract]

Empowering Women through Safety at Work: An Experiment with SMEs in Urban India (with L. Beaman, A. Sharma and K. Sharma) - Baseline preparation stage - Conditionally accepted via pre-results review at the Journal of Development Economics

RA tips

Applied Tips for Applied Micro RAs living document here!