Papers
My writing on the practice of impact investing appears at Y Analytics Research & Insights
Contract Structure, Risk Sharing and Investment Choice
Econometrica 81, no. 3 (2013): 883-939. (link is to last pre-publication version)
Keeping it Simple: Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6, no. 2 (2014): 1-31.
with Antoinette Schoar and Alejandro Drexler
Survey instruments: Baseline (Spanish); Endline (Spanish); Endline (English)
The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth
American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 105(5): 295-99.
with Dean Karlan
Investment Choice and Inflation Uncertainty
June 2016
Short-term Subsidies and Seller Type: A Health Products Experiment in Uganda
Journal of Development Economics, 137C (2019): 110-124.with Dean Karlan, Maggie McConnell, and Pia Raffler
Eliciting and Utilizing Willingness to Pay: Evidence from Field Trials in Northern Ghana
Journal of Political Economy vol. 128:4 (2020): 1436-1473 (link is to last pre-publication version)with James Berry and Raymond Guiteras
Spanning the Chasm: Uniting Theory and Empirics in Microfinance Research,
Handbook of Microfinance, (eds) Beatriz Armendáriz and Marc Labie, World Scientific, 2010.with Maitreesh Ghatak
Do Women Respond Less to Performance Pay? Building Evidence from Multiple Experiments
October 2017
with Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat and Erina Ytsma
Repayment Frequency and Lending Contracts with Present-Biased Borrowers
September 2016with Maitreesh Ghatak
Efficiency and Rent Seeking in Local Government
with Esther Duflo and Raghabendra Chattopadhyay
Selected Work-in-progress
Culture and Incentives
with Oriana Bandiera