Research

PUBLICATIONS:

“Pro-social Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: The Effect of Private and Public Role Models” (with Willa Brown)
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 101, 101942 [Working paper]

“Do Workers Discriminate Against Female Bosses?“
Journal of Human Resources (Accepted) [paper]
Media coverage: Quartz, NY Daily, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Yahoo, San Francisco Chronicle, The Swaddle
Media (German): Die WELT, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Forschung & Lehre, IZA Newsroom, Harvard Business Review

“Socially Optimal Mistakes? Debiasing COVID-19 Mortality Risk Perceptions and Prosocial Behavior”
(with Tanya Byker and Jeff Carpenter)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, 193 (2021): 456-480.
[Published Version] [Working paper]

“The Value of Reference Letters: Experimental Evidence from South Africa”
(with Rulof Burger and Patrizio Piraino)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12.3 (2020): 40-71.
[Published Version] [Working paper]
Media Coverage: VoxDev, J-PAL

“Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap: Increasing Job Search and Employment through Action Planning”
(with Rulof Burger, Eliana Carranza and Patrizio Piraino)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11.2 (2019): 284-301 [Published version] [Working paper]
Media Coverage: The Decision Lab, VoxDev

“Changing Gambling Behavior through Experiential Learning”
(with Shawn Cole and Bilal Zia),
World Bank Economic Review. June 2020. [paper] [Published Version]

“Long-run Effects of Forced Resettlement: Evidence from Apartheid South Africa” 
Journal of Economic History, 79(4), December 2019, P. 915-953
[Published version] [Working paper]
Media Coverage: African Economic History Network

“Unintended Labor Supply Effects of Cash Transfer Programs: Evidence from South Africa’s Old Age Pension”
Journal of African Economies , 28(5), November 2019, P. 558–581
[Published Version] [Working paper]

WORKING PAPERS:

“Labor Market Discrimination and Sorting: Evidence from South Africa”
Revisions Requested [paper]

“The Effect of Manager Gender and Performance Feedback: Experimental Evidence from India” (with Daniel Buchman)
Revisions Requested [paper] [2min video summary]

“Choice Over Payment Schemes and Worker Effort” (with Rulof Burger)
Under Review [paper]

“Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment? Experimental Evidence from Mexico”
(with Eliana Carranza, Kim Geronimo and Maria Elena Ortega)
Under Review [paper]

ONGOING WORK:

“Barriers to Female Labor Force Participation and Employment in Saudi Arabia”
(with Rema Hanna, Rohini Pande and Daniela Paz)

“Motivating Extension Workers – Evidence from Rwanda”
(with Michael Kremer, Tomoko Harigaya, and Jessica Zhu)

“Overconfidence and Wage Expectations” (with R.Burger, E.Carranza, P.Piraino)

“Caste and Gender Discrimination in India” (with Siddarth George)

“Sectoral Employment Training and Worker Retention” (with Anett John)

“Name-Based Racial Discrimination” (with Rulof Burger)

“Causal Effect of Endogenously Set Goals – Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Extension Workers”
(with Michael Kremer, Tomoko Harigaya, and Jessica Zhu)