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Working Papers

2023

1. Sex, Power, and Adolescence: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Behaviors
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
2. Supporting Women’s Livelihoods at Scale: Evidence from a Nationwide Multi-Faceted Program
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2022

3. Women's Empowerment and the Intrinsic Demand for Agency: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2021

4. Business Training and Mentoring: Experimental Evidence from Women-Owned Microenterprises in Ethiopia
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
5. He Said, She Said: The Impact of Gender and Marriage Perceptions on Self and Proxy Reporting of Labor
   2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual, International Association of Agricultural Economists
6. Pathways out of Extreme Poverty: Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-faceted Social Protection Program in Niger
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
7. Sharing Responsibility through Joint Decision Making and Implications for Intimate-Partner Violence: Evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African Countries
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)

2020

8. Can Public Works Enhance Welfare in Fragile Economies? The Londo Program in the Central African Republic
   World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (1)
9. Short-Run Welfare Impacts of Factory Jobs: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
10. The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources: Evidence from Ghana
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
11. Up before Dawn: Experimental Evidence from a Cross-Border Trader Training at the Democratic Republic of Congo?Rwanda Border
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
12. Women’s empowerment in action: evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (18)
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2014)
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford (2014) View citations (44)
    STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE (2014) View citations (20)
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2018) View citations (43)
    See also Journal Article Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association (2020) View citations (53) (2020)

2019

13. Africa Gender Innovation Lab Ethiopia Gender Diagnostic
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (1)
14. Assortative Matching in Africa: Evidence from Rural Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and Malawi
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Assortative matching in Africa: Evidence from rural Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, and Malawi, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2020) View citations (5) (2020)
15. Empowering Adolescent Girls in a Crisis Context
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (2)
16. Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (3)
17. Full Esteem Ahead ? Mindset-Oriented Business Training in Ethiopia
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
18. Gender Bias in SME Lending: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
19. Making It Easier for Women in Malawi to Formalize Their Firms and Access Financial Services
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
    Also in World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group (2015)
20. Taking Power: Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Taking power: Women’s empowerment and household Well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa, World Development, Elsevier (2021) View citations (5) (2021)
21. The Economic Lives of Young Women in the Time of Ebola: Lessons from an Empowerment Program
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (39)

2018

22. Are Mobile Savings the Silver Bullet to Help Women Grow Their Businesses?
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (1)
23. Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2017) View citations (1)
24. Designing Targeted Business Trainings for Impact
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
25. Helping Firms Realize the Benefits of (Partial) Formalization
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
26. How Should the Government Bring Small Firms into the Formal System ? Experimental Evidence from Malawi
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
27. Personal Initiative Training Leads to Remarkable Growth of Women-Owned Small Businesses in Togo
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
28. The Impact of Strengthening Agricultural Extension Services
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
29. The Limits of Commitment: Who Benefits from Illiquid Savings Products?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
30. hort-Term Impacts of Improved Access to Mobile Savings, with and without Business Training: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (9)

2017

31. Are Cash Transfers Better Chunky or Smooth?
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (4)
32. Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (1)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2015) View citations (12)
33. Evaluation of an adolescent development program for girls in Tanzania
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
34. Measuring women's agency
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Measuring Women’s Agency, Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (2020) View citations (7) (2020)
35. Soft Skills for Hard Constraints
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (4)
36. Soft skills for hard constraints: evidence from high-achieving female farmers
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
37. The impact of strengthening agricultural extension services: evidence from Ethiopia
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
38. The profits of wisdom: the impacts of a business support program in Tanzania
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2016

39. Empowering Girls Triggers Their Brothers to Compete
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
40. Formalizing rural land rights in West Africa: early evidence from a randomized impact evaluation in Benin
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (16)
41. Securing Property Rights for Women and Men in Rural Benin
    (Mieux établir les droits fonciers des femmes et des hommes dans les zones rurales au Bénin)
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
42. Women's empowerment, sibling rivalry, and competitiveness: evidence from a lab experiment and a randomized control trial in Uganda
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)

2015

43. Costing the Gender Gap
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
44. Determinants of Participation and Transaction Costs in Rwanda’s Land Markets
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (4)
45. Short-term impacts of formalization assistance and a bank information session on business registration and access to finance in Malawi
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (22)
46. The next wave of deaths from Ebola ? the impact of health care worker mortality
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
47. Women’s economic empowerment in action: evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa
    ILO Working Papers, International Labour Organization View citations (12)

2014

48. Breaking the Metal Ceiling
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (4)
49. Decomposition of gender differentials in agricultural productivity in Ethiopia
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (23)
    See also Journal Article Decomposition of gender differentials in agricultural productivity in Ethiopia, Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists (2015) View citations (60) (2015)
50. Explaining gender differentials in agricultural production in Nigeria
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (15)
    Also in World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group (2013) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Explaining gender differentials in agricultural production in Nigeria, Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists (2015) View citations (64) (2015)

2013

51. Caught in a Productivity Trap
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (28)
52. Caught in a productivity trap: a distributional perspective on gender differences in Malawian agriculture
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (28)
    See also Journal Article Caught in a Productivity Trap: A Distributional Perspective on Gender Differences in Malawian Agriculture, World Development, Elsevier (2015) View citations (81) (2015)
53. Empowering Adolescent Girls in Uganda
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (26)
54. Gender Dimensions in Nigerian Agriculture
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (7)
55. Gender and agriculture: inefficiencies, segregation, and low productivity traps
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (64)
    See also Journal Article Gender and Agriculture: Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps*, The World Bank Research Observer, World Bank (2013) View citations (73) (2013)
56. Lessons for Matching Grant Programs from Failed Attempts to Evaluate Them
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group

2012

57. Learning from the experiments that never happened: lessons from trying to conduct randomized evaluations of matching grant programs in Africa
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article Learning from the experiments that never happened: Lessons from trying to conduct randomized evaluations of matching grant programs in Africa, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier (2014) View citations (4) (2014)
    Chapter Learning from the Experiments That Never Happened: Lessons from Trying to Conduct Randomized Evaluations of Matching Grant Programs in Africa, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013) View citations (1) (2013)

2011

58. Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (40)
59. Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (44)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2011) View citations (44)
    See also Journal Article Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa: Pilot evidence from Rwanda, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2014) View citations (148) (2014)

2008

60. Assessing Our Work on Impact Evaluation
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (1)

2007

61. AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (2)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article AIDS treatment and intrahousehold resource allocation: Children's nutrition and schooling in Kenya, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2009) View citations (25) (2009)

2006

62. The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University View citations (13)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2005) View citations (11)
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2006) View citations (4)
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2005) View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya, Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press (2008) View citations (77) (2008)

2005

63. The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University View citations (67)
    Also in Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2005) View citations (30)
    See also Journal Article The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (2008) View citations (580) (2008)

2003

64. Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed? Inclusion and Exclusion in Mutual Insurance Networks in Southern Ghana
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2002) View citations (5)
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) (2002) View citations (7)
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (2003)
    STICERD - Development Economics Papers - From 2008 this series has been superseded by Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE (2002) View citations (6)
65. The Surprise Party: An Analysis of US ODA Flows to Africa
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2021

1. Taking power: Women’s empowerment and household Well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa
   World Development, 2021, 140, (C) View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Taking Power: Women's Empowerment and Household Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2019) View citations (5) (2019)

2020

2. Assortative matching in Africa: Evidence from rural Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, and Malawi
   Economics Letters, 2020, 187, (C) View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Assortative Matching in Africa: Evidence from Rural Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and Malawi, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2019) View citations (1) (2019)
3. Just a bit of cushion: The role of a simple savings device in meeting planned and unplanned expenses in rural Niger
   World Development, 2020, 128, (C) View citations (1)
4. Measuring Women’s Agency
   Feminist Economics, 2020, 26, (3), 200-226 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Measuring women's agency, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2017) View citations (7) (2017)
5. Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12, (1), 210-59 View citations (53)
   See also Working Paper Women’s empowerment in action: evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2020) View citations (18) (2020)

2019

6. Governance and Women's Economic and Political Participation: Power Inequalities, Formal Constraints and Norms
   The World Bank Research Observer, 2019, 34, (1), 34-64 View citations (10)
7. The impact of strengthening agricultural extension services on women farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia
   Agricultural Economics, 2019, 50, (4), 407-419 View citations (13)

2018

8. Formalization without certification? Experimental evidence on property rights and investment
   Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 132, (C), 57-74 View citations (50)
9. Is Personal Initiative Training a Substitute or Complement to the Existing Human Capital of Women? Results from a Randomized Trial in Togo
   AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 256-61 View citations (9)
10. Salary Delays and Overdrafts in Rural Ghana
    AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 449-52

2015

11. Caught in a Productivity Trap: A Distributional Perspective on Gender Differences in Malawian Agriculture
    World Development, 2015, 70, (C), 416-463 View citations (81)
    See also Working Paper Caught in a productivity trap: a distributional perspective on gender differences in Malawian agriculture, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2013) View citations (28) (2013)
12. Decomposition of gender differentials in agricultural productivity in Ethiopia
    Agricultural Economics, 2015, 46, (3), 311-334 View citations (60)
    See also Working Paper Decomposition of gender differentials in agricultural productivity in Ethiopia, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2014) View citations (23) (2014)
13. Explaining gender differentials in agricultural production in Nigeria
    Agricultural Economics, 2015, 46, (3), 285-310 View citations (64)
    See also Working Paper Explaining gender differentials in agricultural production in Nigeria, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2014) View citations (15) (2014)

2014

14. Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa: Pilot evidence from Rwanda
    Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 110, (C), 262-275 View citations (148)
    See also Working Paper Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda, WIDER Working Paper Series (2011) View citations (44) (2011)
15. Learning from the experiments that never happened: Lessons from trying to conduct randomized evaluations of matching grant programs in Africa
    Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2014, 33, (C), 4-24 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Learning from the experiments that never happened: lessons from trying to conduct randomized evaluations of matching grant programs in Africa, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2012) View citations (9) (2012)
    Chapter Learning from the Experiments That Never Happened: Lessons from Trying to Conduct Randomized Evaluations of Matching Grant Programs in Africa, NBER Chapters, 2013 (2013) View citations (1) (2013)

2013

16. Gender and Agriculture: Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps*
    The World Bank Research Observer, 2013, 28, (1), 79-109 View citations (73)
    See also Working Paper Gender and agriculture: inefficiencies, segregation, and low productivity traps, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2013) View citations (64) (2013)
17. The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes: The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya
    American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5, (2), 58-85 View citations (20)

2012

18. Behavioral Responses of Patients in AIDS Treatment Programs: Sexual Behavior in Kenya
    Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2012, 15, (1), 31 View citations (4)

2010

19. Intentions to Participate in Adolescent Training Programs: Evidence from Uganda
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8, (2-3), 548-560 View citations (8)

2009

20. AIDS treatment and intrahousehold resource allocation: Children's nutrition and schooling in Kenya
    Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, (7-8), 1008-1015 View citations (25)
    See also Working Paper AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya, Working Papers (2007) View citations (2) (2007)
21. ARV Treatment and Time Allocation to Household Tasks: Evidence from Kenya
    African Development Review, 2009, 21, (1), 180-208 View citations (20)

2008

22. The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya
    Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43, (3), 511-552 View citations (77)
    See also Working Paper The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya, Working Papers (2006) View citations (13) (2006)
23. The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana
    Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 116, (6), 981-1022 View citations (580)
    See also Working Paper The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana, Working Papers (2005) View citations (67) (2005)

2005

24. Compassionate conservatives or conservative compassionates? US political parties and bilateral foreign assistance to Africa
    Journal of Development Studies, 2005, 41, (7), 1288-1302 View citations (13)

Books

2008

1. Are You Being Served? New Tools for Measuring Services Delivery
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (22)
2. Data Against Natural Disasters: Establishing Effective Systems for Relief, Recovery, and Reconstruction
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (15)

2006

3. Beyond the Numbers: Understanding the Institutions for Monitoring Poverty Reduction Strategies
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (5)

Chapters

2013

1. Learning from the Experiments That Never Happened: Lessons from Trying to Conduct Randomized Evaluations of Matching Grant Programs in Africa
   A chapter in Experiments for Development: Achievements and New Directions, 2013 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Learning from the experiments that never happened: lessons from trying to conduct randomized evaluations of matching grant programs in Africa, The World Bank (2012) View citations (9) (2012)
   Journal Article Learning from the experiments that never happened: Lessons from trying to conduct randomized evaluations of matching grant programs in Africa, Elsevier (2014) View citations (4) (2014)