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Working Papers

2024

1. Brokering Votes with Information Spread Via Social Networks
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019) View citations (10)

2022

2. Imperfect Competition and Sanitation: Evidence from Randomized Auctions in Senegal
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2021

3. Privatization of Public Goods: Evidence from the Sanitation Sector in Senegal
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Journal Article Privatization of public goods: Evidence from the sanitation sector in Senegal, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2020

4. Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2022) View citations (7) (2022)

2019

5. Structural experimentation to distinguish between models of risk sharing with frictions in rural Paraguay
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (2)
   Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (2017)
   See also Journal Article Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions in Rural Paraguay, Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press (2020) View citations (1) (2020)

2018

6. Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)

2013

7. Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions
   2013 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics

2011

8. Motives for Sharing in Social Networks
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (2)
   Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2011) View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Motives for sharing in social networks, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2012) View citations (90) (2012)
9. The Value of social networks in rural Paraguay
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (1)
   Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2011) View citations (1)
10. Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2011) View citations (8)
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2009) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Vote‐Buying and Reciprocity, Econometrica, Econometric Society (2012) View citations (104) (2012)

2006

11. To Deceive or Not to Deceive: The Effect of Deception on Behavior inFuture Laboratory Experiments
    Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article To deceive or not to deceive: The effect of deception on behavior in future laboratory experiments, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2008) View citations (36) (2008)

2005

12. Traditional trust measurement and the risk confound: An experiment in rural paraguay
    Artefactual Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations (21)
    See also Journal Article Traditional trust measurement and the risk confound: An experiment in rural Paraguay, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2007) View citations (179) (2007)

2004

13. Evaluating different approaches to estimating vulnerability
    Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes, The World Bank View citations (53)

2002

14. MEASURING VULNERABILITY
    2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (19)
    Also in Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2002, Royal Economic Society (2002) View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article Measuring Vulnerability, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2003) View citations (212) (2003)
15. Measuring Vulnerability: The Director's Cut
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (11)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16, (3), 482-515

2023

2. Persuading voters to punish corrupt vote-buying candidates: Experimental evidence from a large-scale radio campaign in India
   Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 160, (C) View citations (3)
3. Privatization of public goods: Evidence from the sanitation sector in Senegal
   Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 160, (C) View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Privatization of Public Goods: Evidence from the Sanitation Sector in Senegal, NBER Working Papers (2021) (2021)

2022

4. Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, (C), 131-167 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay, CEPR Discussion Papers (2020) View citations (6) (2020)

2021

5. Information Technology and Government Decentralization: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay
   Econometrica, 2021, 89, (2), 677-701 View citations (10)

2020

6. Externalities and Spillovers from Sanitation and Waste Management in Urban and Rural Neighborhoods
   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2020, 42, (3), 395-420 View citations (7)
7. Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions in Rural Paraguay
   Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 69, (1), 1 - 50 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Structural experimentation to distinguish between models of risk sharing with frictions in rural Paraguay, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series (2019) View citations (2) (2019)

2018

8. Receptiveness to advice, cognitive ability, and technology adoption
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 149, (C), 239-268 View citations (12)
9. Subsidies versus mental accounting nudges: Harnessing mobile payment systems to improve sanitation
   Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 135, (C), 235-254 View citations (21)

2015

10. Risk, learning, and technology adoption
    Agricultural Economics, 2015, 46, (1), 11-24 View citations (25)
11. Social Networks in Developing Countries
    Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2015, 7, (1), 451-472 View citations (33)
12. Stability of experimental and survey measures of risk, time, and social preferences: A review and some new results
    Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 117, (C), 151-170 View citations (236)

2014

13. The roles of risk and ambiguity in technology adoption
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 97, (C), 204-218 View citations (85)

2012

14. Inequality, Reciprocity, and Credit in Social Networks
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2012, 94, (2), 402-410 View citations (4)
15. Motives for sharing in social networks
    Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99, (1), 13-26 View citations (90)
    See also Working Paper Motives for Sharing in Social Networks, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series (2011) View citations (2) (2011)
16. Vote‐Buying and Reciprocity
    Econometrica, 2012, 80, (2), 863-881 View citations (104)
    See also Working Paper Vote-Buying and Reciprocity, NBER Working Papers (2011) View citations (8) (2011)

2009

17. Detecting Problems in Survey Data Using Benford’s Law
    Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44, (1) View citations (78)

2008

18. To deceive or not to deceive: The effect of deception on behavior in future laboratory experiments
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2008, 68, (3-4), 477-488 View citations (36)
    See also Working Paper To Deceive or Not to Deceive: The Effect of Deception on Behavior inFuture Laboratory Experiments, Working Papers (2006) (2006)

2007

19. An empirical non-parametric likelihood family of data-based Benford-like distributions
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, 380, (C), 429-438 View citations (11)
20. Risk aversion and expected-utility theory: A calibration exercise
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2007, 35, (1), 67-76 View citations (47)
21. Theft, Gift-Giving, and Trustworthiness: Honesty Is Its Own Reward in Rural Paraguay
    American Economic Review, 2007, 97, (5), 1560-1582 View citations (38)
22. Traditional trust measurement and the risk confound: An experiment in rural Paraguay
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2007, 62, (2), 272-292 View citations (179)
    See also Working Paper Traditional trust measurement and the risk confound: An experiment in rural paraguay, Artefactual Field Experiments (2005) View citations (21) (2005)

2006

23. Trust, trustworthiness, and risk in rural Paraguay
    Experimental Economics, 2006, 9, (2), 173-173 View citations (4)

2003

24. Measuring Vulnerability
    Economic Journal, 2003, 113, (486), C95-C102 View citations (212)
    See also Working Paper MEASURING VULNERABILITY, 2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA (2002) View citations (19) (2002)