Research

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 WP No. 24876 | Data and code (.zip) | Dataverse | Twaweza policy brief | JPAL’s policy brief | VoxDev coverage | Mundo ITAM coverage (Spanish) | Podcast | 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 | Future Development (blog) | Chris Blattman’s blog | 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 | Original WP
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 | Quartz coverage | Chris Blattman’s blog | 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 WP No. 25903 | Twaweza policy brief | GlobalDev brief | GlobalDev Spanish | 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 (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

The Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 107, Issue 3, 2025

Published version | Final Manuscript | Online Appendix | NBER WP No. 26562 | WB Blog #1 | WB Blog #2 | Data and code
COVID-19 Learning loss and recovery: Panel data evidence from India
With Abhijeet Singh and Karthik Muralidharan

Forthcoming Journal of Human Resources

Final Manuscript | RISE Working Paper | NBER WP No. 30552 | Data and code
Preventing School Dropout: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala
With Melissa Adelman, Francisco Haimovich, and Emmanuel Vazquez

Forthcoming Journal of Labor Economics

Final Manuscript | Earlier WP Version | Code
The productivity of public and private preschools (and schools): Evidence from India
With Petter Berg and Abhijeet Singh

Forthcoming Economic Journal

Final Manuscript | Data and code

Comments, proceedings, and others

How to make replication the norm
With Paul Gertler and Sebastian Galiani

Nature, Vol 554, 2018

Final Manuscript | NBER WP No. 23576 | Data and Code
Risk Adjustment Revisited using Machine Learning Techniques
With Alvaro Riascos and Natalia Serna

Proceedings Series of the Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 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, 2015

Final Manuscript | R Code
Misinformation About HIV and Negative Attitudes Toward Homosexuality
With Federico Andrade-Rivas

International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 29, Issue 3, 2017

Final Manuscript

Working papers

The incidence of affirmative action: Evidence from quotas in private schools in India
With Abhijeet Singh

Revise & Resubmit Review of Economic Studies

RISE Working Paper | Online Appendix
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
The economist improving education policy with evidence
Interview by Annie Brookman-Byrne for BOLD

Resting papers