Publications (peer-reviewed)
- Inputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Education: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
(With Karthik Muralidharan, Isaac Mbiti, Youdi Schipper, Constantine Manda, and Rakesh Rajani)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 3, 2019
>Final Manuscript > AEA RCT registration > NBER Working Paper No. 24876> Data and code > Dataverse (raw data, survey instruments, and more) > Twaweza policy brief > JPAL’s policy brief > VoxDev coverage > Mundo ITAM coverage (in Spanish) > Podcast for Diana Lopez-Avila’s class > Free Policy Brief
- Outsourcing Education: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
(With Justin Sandefur and Wayne Sandholtz)
American Economic Review, Volume 110, No. 2, 2020
>Final Manuscript > AEA RCT registration > Executive Summary > Policy Brief > Devex coverage > The Economist coverage > Future Development (blog) coverage > Chris Blattman’s blog coverage > Data and code
- Communal Property Rights and Deforestation
(With Santiago Saavedra)
Journal of Development Studies, Volume 57, No. 6, 2021
>Final Manuscript > Data and code
- Local incentives and national tax evasion: The response of illegal mining to a tax reform in Colombia
(With Santiago Saavedra)
European Economic Review, Volume 138, 2021
>Final Manuscript > Code
- Direct vs Indirect Management Training: Experimental Evidence from Schools in Mexico
(With Juan Bedoya, Rafael de Hoyos, Marcela Silveyra, and Monica Yanez-Pagans)
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 154, 2022
Final Manuscript> Code> Harry Patrinos’s blog coverage> Some of the results in this paper first appeared in the working paper “School Management, Grants, and Test Scores: Experimental Evidence from Mexico”
- Cross-Age Tutoring: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
(With Lisa Chen and Noriko Magari)
Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 70, No. 3, 2022
>Final Manuscript > Code
- Beyond Short-term Learning Gains: The Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia after Three Years
(With Justin Sandefur)
Economic Journal, Volume 132, No. 644, 2022
>Final Manuscript> AEA RCT registration > Devex coverage > The Economist coverage > Quartz coverage > Chris Blattman’s blog coverage > Data and code > Replication package
- Designing Teacher Performance Pay Programs: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
(With Isaac Mbiti and Youdi Schipper)
Economic Journal, Volume 133, No. 653, 2023
>Final Manuscript >AEA RCT registration> NBER Working Paper No. 25903 > Twaweza policy brief > GlobalDev brief > GlobalDev Spanish version > Data and code
- Learning Losses during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Mexico
(With Enrique Alasino, María José Ramírez, Norbert Schady and David Uribe)
Economics of Education Review, Volume 98, 2024
>Final Manuscript > Blog Nexos (in Spanish)
- The Effect of School Grants on Test Scores: Experimental Evidence from Mexico
(With Juan Bedoya, Rafael de Hoyos, Marcela Silveyra, and Monica Yanez-Pagans)
Economica, Volume 91, No. 363, 2024
>Final Manuscript > Online Appendix
- Factorial Designs, Model Selection, and (Incorrect) Inference in Randomized Experiments
(With Karthik Muralidharan and Kaspar Wuthrich)
Forthcoming at The Review of Economics and Statistics
>Final Manuscript > Online Appendix > NBER Working Paper No. 26562 > Development impact blog coverage #1 > Development impact blog coverage #2 > Data and code
- COVID-19 Learning loss and recovery: Panel data evidence from India
(With Abhijeet Singh and Karthik Muralidharan)
Forthcoming at the Journal of Human Resources
>Final Manuscript >RISE Working Paper> NBER Working Paper No. 30552 > Data and code
Comments, proceedings, and others
- How to make replication the norm
(With Paul Gertler and Sebastian Galiani)
Nature, Vol 554. pp. 417-419. 2018
>Final Manuscript > NBER Working Paper No. 23576 > Data and Code
- Risk Adjustment Revisited using Machine Learning Techniques
(With Alvaro Riascos and Natalia Serna)
Proceeding Series of the Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics, v. 6, n. 2 . 2018
>Final Manuscript > Published Version
Non-econ peer-reviewed articles
- On the optimality of answer-copying indices: theory and practice
(With Alvaro Riascos and Diego Jara)
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 435-453. 2015
>Final Manuscript > R Code
- Misinformation About HIV and Negative Attitudes Toward Homosexuality and Same-Sex Couples’ Rights: The Case of Colombia
(With Federico Andrade-Rivas)
International Journal of Public Opinion Research. Volume 29. Issue 3. pp. 426-448. 2017
>Final Manuscript
Working papers
- The incidence of affirmative action: Evidence from quotas in private schools in India
(With Abhijeet Singh)
>RISE Working Paper > Online Appendix
Revise and resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies
- Preventing School Dropout: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala
(With Francisco Haimovich, Emmanuel Vazquez, and Melissa Adelman)
>An earlier version of this paper was circulated under the title “Scalable Early Warning Systems for School Dropout Prevention: Evidence from a 4,000-School Randomized Controlled Trial”
Revise and resubmit at the Journal of Labor Economics
- Preschool and Primary School Markets: Evidence from India
(With Petter Berg and Abhijeet Singh)
Revise and resubmit at the Economic Journal
- Toxic Recycling: The Cost of Used Lead-Acid Battery Processing in Mexico
(With Erin Litzow, Bianca Cecato, and Tatiana Zarate-Barrera)
Work in progress
- The long-term effects of admission to an elite high school
(With Enrique Seira and Rafael de Hoyos)
- Improving preschool services: Experimental evidence on a technology-aided intervention in India.
(With Ajinkya Keskar, Abhijeet Singh and Karthik Muralidharan)
- Designing Teacher Incentives for Scale: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania.
(With Isaac Mbiti, Youdi Schipper, and Karina Gomez)
- Beyond the experiment: medium-run impacts of a teacher performance pay program in Tanzania.
(With Isaac Mbiti, Youdi Schipper, and Karina Gomez)
- How much do we gain from personalization? Experimental evidence from Peru
(With Raphaelle Aulagnon, Julian Cristia, Nicolas Bottan, and Jose Luis Montiel)
- Air filters and student learning: Experimental evidence from Colombia
(With Santiago Saavedra and Michael Kremer)
- Mitigating learning losses during school closures by bridging the digital divide: Experimental evidence from India
(With Abhijeet Singh and Karthik Muralidharan)
- Preventing dropout using mentors and information: Experimental evidence from Guatemala
(With Martina Jakob, Carla Coccia, and Eric Edmonds)
- Targeted instruction with teachers: Experimental evidence from El Salvador
(With Martina Jakob and Carla Coccia)
Policy and popular writing
- Will an RCT Change Anyone’s Mind? Should It?
(With Justin Sandefur and Wayne Sandholtz)
CGD blog – January 25, 2017.
- Ajuste de Riesgo y Solvencia de las Aseguradoras de Salud en Colombia
(With Alvaro Riascos and Natalia Serna)
Nota de Política Nº 28 – Universidad de los Andes. March, 2017.
- Motivating teachers to improve learning: evidence from Tanzania
(With Isaac Mbiti , Youdi Schipper, and Aidan Eyakuze)
GlobalDev Blog -December 9, 2019
- Outsourcing Primary Education in Liberia Leads to Mixed Results
(With Elizabeth Tofaris)
The Impact Initiative – August 25, 2020
- Designing and Testing a Scalable Teacher Incentive Programme in Tanzania
(With Isaac Mbiti and Youdi Schipper)
RISE Insight Note – September 7, 2022
- Reversing losses in learning after Covid
(With Abhijeet Singh and Karthik Muralidharan)
Hindustan Times – October 12, 2022
- Preschool services in Tamil Nadu
(With Abhijeet Singh)
RISE Blog – December 20, 2022
- Pérdidas de aprendizaje durante la pandemia y ritmo de recuperación: evidencia de Guanajuato
(With Enrique Alasino, María José Ramírez and Norbert Schady)
Nexos: Distancia por tiempos – April 3, 2024
Resting papers
- Using Instrumental Variables for Assessing the Effects of Air Pollution on Health: A Cautionary Tale
(With Tarik Benmarhnia and Prashant Bharadwaj)