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Working  Papers

​Labor Market Dynamics and Development 
with Will Jianyu Lu and Todd Schoellman, January 2023. Revision requested at Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Other: 
[data website] [World Bank Jobs Blog]

From Micro to Macro in an Equilibrium Diffusion Model 
with Wyatt Brooks and Terence Johnson, January 2023​

Published

The Role of Labor Market Frictions in Structural Transformation
with Todd Schoellman. 2022. Oxford Development Studies, forthcoming in special issue on STEG's review of structural transformation

​Cash Transfers as a Response to COVID-19: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
with Wyatt Brooks, Terence Johnson, and Jackline Oluoch-Aridi, 2022.  Journal of Development Economics, 158: 102929
​Other: [J-PAL] [The Standard, re-printed in Nation]​ ​

The Equilibrium Impact of Agricultural Risk on Intermediate Inputs and Aggregate Productivity [appendix]
2021. Review of Economic Studies, 88(5): 2275–2307.

Eliminating Uncertainty in Market Access: The Impact of New Bridges in Rural Nicaragua [appendix 1] [appendix 2] 
with Wyatt Brooks. 2020. Econometrica, 88(5): 1965 - 1997.
Other: [VoxDev] [A Fine Theorem]

Factors Affecting College Attainment and Student Ability in the U.S. since 1900 [appendix]
with Chris Herrington. 2019. Review of Economic Dynamics, 31(1): 224 - 244.

Mentors or Teachers? Microenterprise Training in Kenya [appendix] 
with Wyatt Brooks and Terence Johnson. 2018. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(4): 196 - 221.
Other: 
[VoxDev] ​
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​Other Stuff (non-peer reviewed or in other fields):
Is There a Cost-Effective Means of Training Microenterprises?
with Wyatt Brooks and Terence Johnson. 2020. World Bank Economic Review (Supplement), 34(1): 63 - 67.

Engineering environmental resilience: A matched cohort study of the community benefits of trailbridges in rural Rwanda
with Evan Thomas, Abigail Bradshaw, Lambert Mugabo, Laura MacDonald, Wyatt Brooks, and Katherine Dickinson.
2021. Science of the Total Environment, 771: 145275.

Work  in   Progress/ In  the  field

Contracting in Space: Procurement Auctions on the Nepali Highway Network
with Théophile Bougna and Wyatt Brooks 
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The Equilibrium Impact of Lowering Internal Trade Costs: Experimental Evidence from New Infrastructure in Rwanda
with Wyatt Brooks (fieldwork ongoing)
Other: [ATAI] [Mortenson Center for Global Engineering at CU Boulder]

The Gender Turnover Gap Across Countries
​with 
Will Jianyu Lu and Todd Schoellman​

Labor Market Anatomy of a Macroeconomic Crisis
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​with Will Jianyu Lu, Joseph Pedkte, and Todd Schoellman

Knowledge Pass-through among Kenyan Microenterprises
with Wyatt Brooks and Terence Johnson (fieldwork ongoing)
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