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Working Papers

2024

1. Violence and financial decisions: evidence from mobile money in Afghanistan
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (1)

2023

2. Estimating Impact with Surveys versus Digital Traces: Evidence from Randomized Cash Transfers in Togo
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2022

3. (Machine) Learning What Policies Value
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
   Also in Papers, arXiv.org (2022) View citations (2)
4. Instant Loans Can Lift Subjective Well-Being: A Randomized Evaluation of Digital Credit in Nigeria
   Papers, arXiv.org
5. Measuring Religion from Behavior: Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
6. Program Targeting with Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data: Evidence from an Anti-Poverty Intervention in Afghanistan
   Papers, arXiv.org

2021

7. Gamblers Learn from Experience
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (1)
   Also in SoDa Laboratories Working Paper Series, Monash University, SoDa Laboratories (2020)
8. Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2021)
9. Micro-Estimates of Wealth for all Low- and Middle-Income Countries
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Microestimates of wealth for all low- and middle-income countries, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022) View citations (8) (2022)

2020

10. How Important is the Yellow Pages? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (4)
11. Manipulation-Proof Machine Learning
    Papers, arXiv.org View citations (6)
12. Public Mobility Data Enables COVID-19 Forecasting and Management at Local and Global Scales
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)

2019

13. Migration and the Value of Social Networks
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (30)

2018

14. Insecurity and industrial organization: evidence from Afghanistan
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
15. Why do defaults affect behavior? Experimental evidence from Afghanistan
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (41)
    Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2017) View citations (10)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2017) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2018) View citations (57) (2018)

2016

16. Mobile-izing Savings with Automatic Contributions: Experimental Evidence on Present Bias and Default Effects in Afghanistan
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (6)

2011

17. Risk and Reciprocity Over the Mobile Phone Network: Evidence from Rwanda
    Working Papers, NET Institute View citations (8)
    Also in CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford (2011) View citations (8)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Geographic microtargeting of social assistance with high-resolution poverty maps
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119, (32), e2120025119 View citations (4)
2. Machine learning and phone data can improve targeting of humanitarian aid
   Nature, 2022, 603, (7903), 864-870 View citations (23)
3. Microestimates of wealth for all low- and middle-income countries
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119, (3), e2113658119 View citations (8)
   See also Working Paper Micro-Estimates of Wealth for all Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Papers (2021) View citations (2) (2021)
4. Mobile phone data reveal the effects of violence on internal displacement in Afghanistan
   Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, 6, (5), 624-634 View citations (4)

2020

5. A general approach to detecting migration events in digital trace data
   PLOS ONE, 2020, 15, (10), 1-17 View citations (4)

2018

6. Don’t forget people in the use of big data for development
   Nature, 2018, 561, (7722), 170-172 View citations (2)
7. Estimating Economic Characteristics with Phone Data
   AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 72-76 View citations (11)
8. Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
   American Economic Review, 2018, 108, (10), 2868-2901 View citations (57)
   See also Working Paper Why do defaults affect behavior? Experimental evidence from Afghanistan, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2018) View citations (41) (2018)

2016

9. Airtime transfers and mobile communications: Evidence in the aftermath of natural disasters
   Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, (C), 157-181 View citations (80)