The Limits of Government Outsourcing: Property Tax Re-Assessments in India
with Esther Duflo, Rema Hanna, and Shreya Tandon. November 2025.
With or Without U? Binning Bias and the Causal Effects of Temperature Shocks
with Ben Jones, Jacob Moscona, and Cristine von Dessauer. September 2025.
Stata package to produce counterfactual temperature distributions here.
Social Protection: Policymaker Beliefs and Empirical Evidence
with Alexa Weiss and Rema Hanna ®. August 2025.
Prepared for the Handbook of Development Economics.
Willingness-To-Pay vs Administrative Hurdles: Understanding Barriers to Social Insurance Enrollment in Thailand
with Rema Hanna, Phitawat Poonpolkul, and Nada Wasi ®. June 2025.
Earlier version: NBER Working Paper #33096.
Conditionally accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics.
Community Targeting at Scale
with Sudarno Sumarto, Elan Satriawan, Abhijit Banerjee, Achmad Tohari, Vivi Alatas, and Rema Hanna ®. December 2024. NBER Working Paper #33322.
Revise and resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
National Borders and the Conservation of Nature
with Robin Burgess and Francisco Costa. October 2024.
Earlier version: NBER Working Paper #24861.
Revise and resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association.
Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World’s Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta
with Gabriel Kreindler, Arya Gaduh, Tilman Graff, and Rema Hanna. August 2024.
Appendix. Earlier version: NBER Working Paper #31369.
Conditionally accepted, American Economic Review.
Emigration During Turbulent Times
with Kaicheng Luo and David Yang ®. June 2024.
In Praise of Moderation: Suggestions for the Scope and Use of Pre-Analysis Plan for RCTs in Economics
with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Amy Finkelstein, Lawrence F. Katz and Anja Sautmann
April 2020. NBER Working Paper #26993.
® denotes randomized author ordering.