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Working Papers

2023

1. A Firm of One’s Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (1)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2017) View citations (12)
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2017) View citations (12)
2. Preprimary Education and Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Government Schools in Rural Kenya
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development
   See also Journal Article Preprimary education and early childhood development: Evidence from government schools in rural Kenya, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2024) (2024)

2021

3. Gendered Language
   Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College
   Also in Working Papers, Center for Global Development (2020) View citations (1)
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2020)
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2018)
4. Recruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants: Experimental evidence from Rwandan primary schools
   Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College
   Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2020) View citations (3)
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2020) View citations (3)
   Papers, arXiv.org (2021) View citations (13)
   See also Journal Article Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2021) View citations (17) (2021)

2020

5. Big Sisters
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (1)
   Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2020) View citations (2)
6. Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Prim
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (4)

2019

7. Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing: A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
   Also in Working Papers, Center for Global Development (2019) View citations (1)
8. Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity — A Tale of Two States
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Motivating bureaucrats through social recognition: External validity—A tale of two states, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier (2021) View citations (4) (2021)
9. Multilingual Assessment of Early Child Development: Analyses from Repeated Observations of Children in Kenya
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
   Also in Working Papers, Center for Global Development (2019) View citations (4)
10. Replication Redux: The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Replication Redux: The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming, The World Bank Research Observer, World Bank (2021) View citations (5) (2021)

2018

11. Motivating bureaucrats through social recognition: evidence from simultaneous field experiments
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)

2016

12. The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (10)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2015) View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2019) View citations (67) (2019)

2015

13. The impact of secondary schooling in Kenya: a regression discontinuity analysis
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (30)
    See also Journal Article The Impact of Secondary Schooling in Kenya: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis, Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press (2018) View citations (26) (2018)

2014

14. Exploiting externalities to estimate the long-term effects of early childhood deworming
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (23)
    See also Journal Article Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Deworming, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association (2018) View citations (10) (2018)

2012

15. Does Africa need a rotten Kin Theorem ? experimental evidence from village economies
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (89)
    See also Journal Article Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorem? Experimental Evidence from Village Economies, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (2016) View citations (144) (2016)
16. Perils of simulation: parallel streams and the case of stata's rnormal command
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2005

17. Incentives to learn
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Preprimary education and early childhood development: Evidence from government schools in rural Kenya
   Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171, (C)
   See also Working Paper Preprimary Education and Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Government Schools in Rural Kenya, Working Papers (2023) (2023)

2021

2. Motivating bureaucrats through social recognition: External validity—A tale of two states
   Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2021, 163, (C), 117-131 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity — A Tale of Two States, IZA Discussion Papers (2019) View citations (4) (2019)
3. Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools
   American Economic Review, 2021, 111, (7), 2213-46 View citations (17)
   See also Working Paper Recruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants: Experimental evidence from Rwandan primary schools, Department of Economics Working Papers (2021) (2021)
4. Replication Redux: The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming
   (Economics of Mass Deworming Programs)
   The World Bank Research Observer, 2021, 36, (1), 101-130 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Replication Redux: The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2019) View citations (1) (2019)

2020

5. Randomized control trial as social observatory: A case study
   World Development, 2020, 127, (C) View citations (1)

2019

6. The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101, (3), 547-559 View citations (67)
   See also Working Paper The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, IZA Discussion Papers (2016) View citations (10) (2016)

2018

7. Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Deworming
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10, (3), 235-62 View citations (10)
   See also Working Paper Exploiting externalities to estimate the long-term effects of early childhood deworming, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2014) View citations (23) (2014)
8. The Impact of Secondary Schooling in Kenya: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
   Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53, (1), 157-188 View citations (26)
   See also Working Paper The impact of secondary schooling in Kenya: a regression discontinuity analysis, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2015) View citations (30) (2015)

2016

9. Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorem? Experimental Evidence from Village Economies
   The Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83, (1), 231-268 View citations (144)
   See also Working Paper Does Africa need a rotten Kin Theorem ? experimental evidence from village economies, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2012) View citations (89) (2012)