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Working Papers

2024

1. Expanding Horizons A Randomized Controlled Trial on Adolescents’ Career Information Acquisition
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
2. Regulating Manufacturing FDI: Local Labor Market Responses to a Protectionist Policy in Indonesia
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

2023

3. Occupational Aspirations and Investments in Education: Experimental Evidence from Cambodia
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo

2022

4. COVID-19 crisis, economic hardships and schooling outcomes
   OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science
   Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2022)
   See also Journal Article COVID-19 Crisis, Economic Hardships, and Schooling Outcomes, Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press (2023) (2023)
5. Interest exploration and investments in education: Experimental evidence from Cambodia
   OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science
6. Migration Opportunities and Human Capital Investments
   OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science

2021

7. Agricultural productivity and fertility: Evidence from the oil palm boom in Indonesia
   OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science

2020

8. Start What You Finish! Ex ante risk and schooling investments in the presence of dynamic complementarities
   Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (2)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2017) View citations (6)

2019

9. Links between maternal employment and child nutrition in rural Tanzania
   GlobalFood Discussion Papers, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, GlobalFood, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Links between Maternal Employment and Child Nutrition in Rural Tanzania, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons (2021) View citations (17) (2021)
10. Maternal employment and child nutrition in rural Tanzania
    2019 Sixth International Conference, September 23-26, 2019, Abuja, Nigeria, African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) View citations (3)

2018

11. Labor-saving technological change and decreasing fertility rates: The oil palm boom in Indonesia
    2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, International Association of Agricultural Economists View citations (1)
12. Productive Effects of Public Works Programs: What do we know? What should we know?
    OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science View citations (37)
    See also Journal Article Productive effects of public works programs: What do we know? What should we know?, World Development, Elsevier (2018) View citations (29) (2018)
13. Why does a labor-saving technology decrease fertility rates? Evidence from the oil palm boom in Indonesia
    EFForTS Discussion Paper Series, University of Goettingen, Collaborative Research Centre 990 "EFForTS, Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)" View citations (6)

2017

14. An employment guarantee as risk insurance ? assessing the effects of the NREGS on agricultural production decisions
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)
    Also in Working Papers, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE) (2014) View citations (21)
    See also Journal Article An Employment Guarantee as Risk Insurance? Assessing the Effects of the NREGS on Agricultural Production Decisions, The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank (2019) View citations (16) (2019)

2015

15. Can public works infrastructure affect employment outcomes? Evidence from the NREGS in India
    IDOS Discussion Papers, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) View citations (8)
16. How can public works programmes create sustainable employment?
    IDOS Discussion Papers, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) View citations (5)

2014

17. Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited, Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press (2018) View citations (3) (2018)

2012

18. Short-term effects of the global economic and financial crisis on households in three developing countries: the cases of El Salvador, Tajikistan and Cambodia
    IDOS Discussion Papers, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) View citations (1)

2011

19. Can micro-insurance cover natural risks?
    IDOS Discussion Papers, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Agricultural Productivity and Fertility Rates: Evidence from the Oil Palm Boom in Indonesia
   Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59, (1), 316-347

2023

2. COVID-19 Crisis, Economic Hardships, and Schooling Outcomes
   Education Finance and Policy, 2023, 18, (3), 522-546
   See also Working Paper COVID-19 crisis, economic hardships and schooling outcomes, OSF Preprints (2022) (2022)

2021

3. Links between Maternal Employment and Child Nutrition in Rural Tanzania
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021, 103, (3), 812-830 View citations (17)
   See also Working Paper Links between maternal employment and child nutrition in rural Tanzania, GlobalFood Discussion Papers (2019) View citations (1) (2019)

2019

4. An Employment Guarantee as Risk Insurance? Assessing the Effects of the NREGS on Agricultural Production Decisions
   The World Bank Economic Review, 2019, 33, (2), 413-435 View citations (16)
   See also Working Paper An employment guarantee as risk insurance ? assessing the effects of the NREGS on agricultural production decisions, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2017) View citations (17) (2017)

2018

5. Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited
   Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2018, 66, (4), 673 - 707 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited, IZA Discussion Papers (2014) View citations (4) (2014)
6. Productive effects of public works programs: What do we know? What should we know?
   World Development, 2018, 107, (C), 111-124 View citations (29)
   See also Working Paper Productive Effects of Public Works Programs: What do we know? What should we know?, OSF Preprints (2018) View citations (37) (2018)

2014

7. The Insurability Framework Applied to Agricultural Microinsurance: What Do We Know, What Can We Learn&quest
   The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 2014, 39, (2), 264-279 View citations (3)