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Working Papers

2024

1. Healthcare Appointments as Commitment Devices
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
   See also Journal Article Healthcare Appointments as Commitment Devices, The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2025) (2025)
2. Striking the Right Balance: Why Standard Balance Tests Over-Reject the Null, and How to Fix It
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (1)
3. When Given Discretion Teachers Did Not Shirk: Evidence from Remedial Education in Secondary Schools
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2023

4. Navigating Ambiguity: Imprecise Probabilities and the Updating of Disease Risk Beliefs
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

2022

5. Some children left behind: Variation in the effects of an educational intervention
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (4)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2021)
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2020) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Some children left behind: Variation in the effects of an educational intervention, Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier (2024) (2024)

2021

6. Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (2)
   Also in SocArXiv, Center for Open Science (2021) View citations (2)
   CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford (2021) View citations (2)
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science (2021)
7. Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Health knowledge and non-pharmaceutical interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2021) View citations (5) (2021)
8. Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (13)
   Also in SocArXiv, Center for Open Science (2021) View citations (12)
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science (2021)
   See also Journal Article Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2021) View citations (12) (2021)

2020

9. Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science
   Also in SocArXiv, Center for Open Science (2020) View citations (15)
   See also Journal Article Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2021) View citations (23) (2021)
10. Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi
    SocArXiv, Center for Open Science
    Also in SocArXiv, Center for Open Science (2020) View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi, Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press (2022) View citations (7) (2022)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Healthcare Appointments as Commitment Devices
   The Economic Journal, 2025, 135, (665), 81-118
   See also Working Paper Healthcare Appointments as Commitment Devices, IZA Discussion Papers (2024) (2024)

2024

2. Some children left behind: Variation in the effects of an educational intervention
   Journal of Econometrics, 2024, 243, (1)
   See also Working Paper Some children left behind: Variation in the effects of an educational intervention, Post-Print (2022) View citations (4) (2022)

2022

3. How Important Is Temptation Spending? Maybe Less than We Thought
   The World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36, (2), 433-454
4. Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi
   Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57, (4), 1147-1177 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi, SocArXiv (2020) (2020)

2021

5. Health knowledge and non-pharmaceutical interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 190, (C), 33-53 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa, NBER Working Papers (2021) View citations (5) (2021)
6. Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103, (2), 251-264 View citations (23)
   See also Working Paper Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures, SocArXiv (2020) (2020)
7. Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments
   American Economic Review, 2021, 111, (7), 2179-2212 View citations (12)
   See also Working Paper Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments, NBER Working Papers (2021) View citations (13) (2021)

2019

8. Income timing and liquidity constraints: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
   Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, (C), 294-308