Working Papers

The Limits of Government Outsourcing: Property Tax Re-Assessments in India
Working Paper, November 2025
with Rema Hanna, Ben Olken and Shreya Tandon

Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Working paper, July 2024
with Abhijit Banerjee, Emily Breza and Cynthia Kinnan

The Impact of Secondary School Subsidies on Career Trajectories in a Dual Labor Market: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Working Paper, June 2024
with Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer

Blue Spoons: Sparking Communication About Appropriate Technology Use
Working paper, August 2022
with Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Michael Kremer, João Pugliese, Jonathan Robinson and Frank Schilbach

In Praise of Moderation: Suggestions for the Scope and Use of Pre-Analysis Plan for RCTs in Economics
Working Paper, April 2020
with Abhijit Banerjee, Amy Finklestein, Lawrence F. Katz, Benjamin A. Olken, Anja Sautmann

Verifying the internal validity of a flagship RCT: A review of Crepon, Devoto, Duflo and Pariente : a rejoinder
Working paper, June 2019
with Bruno Crépon, Florencia Devoto, and William Parienté
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Toilets Can Work: Short and Medium Run Health Impacts of Addressing Complementarities and Externalities in Water and Sanitation (with Michael Greenstone, Raymond Guiteras, Thomas Clasen), September 2015. (see NBER Working Paper No. 21521)

Human values and the design of the fight against poverty
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Harvard University, May 2012

Efficiency and Rent Seeking in Local Government, (with Greg Fischer), MIT Mimeo 2007.

Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices
June 2003
with Christopher Udry