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Working Papers

2024

1. Avoiding Another Lost Decade on Malaria Vaccines
   Policy Papers, Center for Global Development
2. Long-Distance Industrial Policy for Africa
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development
3. The Evolution of World Bank Lending for Education: 1998-2022
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development

2023

4. How Much Would Reducing Lead Exposure Improve Children’s Learning in the Developing World?
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development
5. Live Tutoring Calls Did Not Improve Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Live tutoring calls did not improve learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2023) View citations (8) (2023)
6. Phonics and Foreign Aid: Can America Teach the World to Read?
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (1)
7. The Long-Run Decline of Education Quality in the Developing World
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development

2022

8. The Macroeconomics of Pandemics around the World: Lives versus Livelihoods Revisited
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development
   See also Journal Article The macroeconomics of pandemics around the world: Lives versus livelihoods revisited, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2023) View citations (2) (2023)

2021

9. Do High-Stakes Exams Promote Consistent Educational Standards?
   Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (2)
10. The New Era of Unconditional Convergence
    Working Papers, Ashoka University, Department of Economics View citations (28)
    Also in Working Papers, Center for Global Development (2021) View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article The new era of unconditional convergence, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2021) View citations (30) (2021)
11. Three New Estimates of India’s All-Cause Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development
12. Understanding Education Policy Preferences: Survey Experiments with Policymakers in 35 Developing Countries
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (2)

2020

13. A Rosetta Stone for Human Capital
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development
14. Deliberative Democracy and the Resource Curse: A Nationwide Experiment in Tanzania
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development
15. Is the World Bank’s COVID Crisis Lending Big Enough, Fast Enough? New Evidence on Loan Disbursements
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (4)
16. Predicted COVID-19 Fatality Rates Based on Age, Sex, Comorbidities, and Health System Capacity
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (11)
17. The IMF’s Growth Forecasts for Poor Countries Don’t Match Its COVID Narrative
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (6)

2019

18. Beyond Short-term Learning Gains: The Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia after Three Years
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Beyond Short-Term Learning Gains: the Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia After Three Years, The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2022) View citations (2) (2022)

2017

19. Can Outsourcing Improve Liberia’s Schools? Preliminary Results from Year One of a Three-Year Randomized Evaluation of Partnership Schools for Liberia
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (1)
20. Girls’ Schooling and Women’s Literacy: Schooling Targets Alone Won’t Reach Learning Goals
    Policy Papers, Center for Global Development
    See also Journal Article Girls’ schooling and women’s literacy: schooling targets alone won’t reach learning goals, International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier (2020) View citations (2) (2020)
21. Measuring Rents from Public Employment: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya - Working Paper 457
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (9)
22. Measuring Rents from Public Employment: Regression discontinuity evidence from Kenya
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (8)

2016

23. Internationally Comparable Mathematics Scores for Fourteen African Countries - Working Paper 444
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (5)

2015

24. Falling Off the Map: The Impact of Formalizing (Some) Informal Settlements in Tanzania
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (13)
25. The Impact of Gavi on Vaccination Rates: Regression Discontinuity Evidence - Working Paper 394
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (2)

2014

26. Costing a Data Revolution - Working Paper 383
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (1)
27. The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey & Administrative Studies- Working Paper 373
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (7)
28. The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (13)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2014) View citations (16)
29. The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania - Working Paper 369
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (14)
30. We Just Ran Twenty-Three Million Queries of the World Bank's Website - Working Paper 362
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (11)

2013

31. Can free provision reduce demand for public services ? evidence from Kenyan education
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Can Free Provision Reduce Demand for Public Services? Evidence from Kenyan Education, The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank (2015) View citations (14) (2015)
32. Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice Don't Mix-Working Paper 336
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (32)
33. Scaling-up What Works: Experimental Evidence on External Validity in Kenyan Education
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (65)

2012

34. Scaling up education interventions in Kenya: the importance of institutions
    PEP Policy Briefs, Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) View citations (1)

2011

35. Does Abolishing Fees Reduce School Quality? Evidence from Kenya
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (8)
36. The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country- Working Paper 279
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (8)
37. Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?- Working Paper 271
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (16)

2010

38. Learning & Earning in Africa: Where are the Returns to Education High?
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (25)
39. On the Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution in an African Economy
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (20)
40. The Returns to formality and Informality in Urban Africa
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (31)
    See also Journal Article The returns to formality and informality in urban Africa, Labour Economics, Elsevier (2011) View citations (44) (2011)

2008

41. Does Doing an Apprenticeship Pay Off? Evidence from Ghana
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (17)

2006

42. African poverty through the lens of labor economics: Earnings & mobility in three countries
    Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (8)

2005

43. Labor Market Flexibility, Wages and Incomes in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s
    Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (18)
    See also Journal Article Labour Market Flexibility, Wages and Incomes in Sub‐Saharan Africa in the 1990s, African Development Review, African Development Bank (2006) View citations (25) (2006)

Journal Articles

2023

1. Live tutoring calls did not improve learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone
   Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 164, (C) View citations (8)
   See also Working Paper Live Tutoring Calls Did Not Improve Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone, Working Papers (2023) View citations (8) (2023)
2. The macroeconomics of pandemics around the world: Lives versus livelihoods revisited
   Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, (C) View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper The Macroeconomics of Pandemics around the World: Lives versus Livelihoods Revisited, Working Papers (2022) (2022)

2022

3. Beyond Short-Term Learning Gains: the Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia After Three Years
   The Economic Journal, 2022, 132, (644), 1600-1619 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Beyond Short-term Learning Gains: The Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia after Three Years, Working Papers (2019) View citations (1) (2019)

2021

4. The new era of unconditional convergence
   Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 152, (C) View citations (30)
   See also Working Paper The New Era of Unconditional Convergence, Working Papers (2021) View citations (28) (2021)
5. World Bank grants for global vaccination — why so slow?
   Nature, 2021, 594, (7864), 475-475 View citations (1)

2020

6. Girls’ schooling and women’s literacy: schooling targets alone won’t reach learning goals
   International Journal of Educational Development, 2020, 78, (C) View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Girls’ Schooling and Women’s Literacy: Schooling Targets Alone Won’t Reach Learning Goals, Policy Papers (2017) (2017)
7. Outsourcing Education: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
   American Economic Review, 2020, 110, (2), 364-400 View citations (22)

2019

8. Regression discontinuity analysis of Gavi's impact on vaccination rates
   Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 140, (C), 12-25 View citations (4)

2018

9. Experimental evidence on scaling up education reforms in Kenya
   Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 168, (C), 1-20 View citations (78)
10. Internationally comparable mathematics scores for fourteen african countries
    Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, (C), 267-286 View citations (14)

2016

11. Small price incentives increase women's access to land titles in Tanzania
    Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 123, (C), 107-122 View citations (26)

2015

12. Can Free Provision Reduce Demand for Public Services? Evidence from Kenyan Education
    The World Bank Economic Review, 2015, 29, (2), 293-326 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper Can free provision reduce demand for public services ? evidence from Kenyan education, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2013) View citations (1) (2013)
13. Costing a Data Revolution
    World Economics, 2015, 16, (3), 99-112
14. Learning from Experiments When Context Matters
    American Economic Review, 2015, 105, (5), 471-75 View citations (52)
15. The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey and Administrative Statistics
    Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51, (2), 116-132 View citations (40)

2014

16. Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice do not Mix
    Journal of Globalization and Development, 2014, 4, (2), 161-197 View citations (15)

2013

17. Public and Private Provision of Education in Kenya
    Journal of African Economies, 2013, 22, (suppl_2), -ii56 View citations (8)

2011

18. The returns to formality and informality in urban Africa
    Labour Economics, 2011, 18, (S1), S23-S31 View citations (44)
    See also Working Paper The Returns to formality and Informality in Urban Africa, CSAE Working Paper Series (2010) View citations (31) (2010)

2006

19. Labour Market Flexibility, Wages and Incomes in Sub‐Saharan Africa in the 1990s
    African Development Review, 2006, 18, (3), 392-427 View citations (25)
    See also Working Paper Labor Market Flexibility, Wages and Incomes in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s, Economics Series Working Papers (2005) View citations (18) (2005)