Associate Professor of Economics
​Yale School of Management
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​​​Research Interests
Macro-development
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​​​Contact Info​ 
​2512 Evans Hall
​165 Whitney Ave
​New Haven, CT 06511

Working  Papers

From Micro to Macro in an Equilibrium Diffusion Model 
with Wyatt Brooks and Terence Johnson, March 2024.
Conditionally accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics

​Labor Market Anatomy of a Macroeconomic Crisis 
​​​​with Will Jianyu Lu, Joseph Pedkte, and Todd Schoellman, October 2024. 
​Revision requested, Journal of Monetary Economics

Optimal Fertilizer Policy After a Global Shock (draft soon) ​
​with Wyatt Brooks  

Spousal Insurance Around the World (draft soon) ​
​with Annika Bacher, Philipp Grübener, Lukas Nord, and Todd Schoellman​

Published

The Role of Labor Market Frictions in Structural Transformation
with Todd Schoellman. 2024. Oxford Development Studies, 51 (4): 362 - 374.
Special issue on STEG's review of structural transformation

Labor Market Dynamics and Development [appendix]
with Will Jianyu Lu and Todd Schoellman. 2023. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138(4): 2287 - 2325.
Other: [data website] [World Bank Jobs Blog] [VoxDev podcast]

​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

Market Access and Economic Development: Experimental Evidence from New Bridges in Rwanda
with Wyatt Brooks and Evan Thomas (fieldwork complete)
Other: [ATAI] [Mortenson Center for Global Engineering at CU Boulder]