Working Papers
2026. Schooling, Jobs, Political Attitudes and Actions: Evidence from Free Primary Education Policies in Africa. (with Virna Vidal Menezes) (email for draft)
2026. Does Education Make Women Work? Labor Market Impacts of Free Primary Education in Africa. (email for draft)
2026. Appliance Adoption Dynamics Following Electrification: Evidence from Rural South Africa (with Mark Collinson, Wayne Twine, and Martin Wittenberg). Submitted.
2021. Home production, Women’s market work, and Structural Transformation (with L. Rachel Ngai). January. STEG Pathfinding paper
Published and Forthcoming
2024. Labor Migration, Capital Accumulation, and the Structure of Rural Labor Markets (with Grace Kumchulesi and Martine Mariotti). Review of Economics and Statistics doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01419
2023. Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women’s Time in Home Production (with Farzana Afridi, Sisir Debnath, and Komal Sareen), World Bank Economic Review 37 (2): 283–304
2022. Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages (with Samuel Berlinski, Matias Busso and Claudia Martinez A) Journal of Human Resources, online December 2022
2022. Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural TransformationJournal of Economic Perspectives 36(1):57-80 (with L. Rachel Ngai).
2018. Why are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in Rural India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two DecadesJournal of Population Economics 31:783–818 (with Farzana Afridi and Kanika Mahajan).
2017. The Effects of Financial Aid and Returns Information in Selective and Less Selective Schools: Experimental Evidence from ChileLabour Economics 45: 79–91 (with Matias Busso, Claudia Martínez A. and Dario Romero).
2017. Long-Run Health Repercussions of Drought Shocks: Evidence from South African HomelandsThe Economic Journal, 127 (September), 1906–1939.
2016. The Long-Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of OriginAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2016, 8(4): 1–35 (with Martine Mariotti).
2015. Migration, Congestion Externalities, and the Evaluation of Spatial InvestmentsJournal of Development Economics 114: 189–202 (with Sam Schulhofer-Wohl).
2014. Investing in Schooling in Chile: The Role of Information About Financial Aid for Higher EducationReview of Economics and Statistics, May, 96(2): 244–257 (with Claudia Martinez A.).
2012. Evidence on the Impact of Minimum Wage Laws in an Informal Sector: Domestic Workers in South AfricaJournal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 27–45 (with Vimal Ranchhod).
2011. The Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment: New Evidence from South AfricaAmerican Economic Review 101 (December): 3078–3108. Appendices.
2008. Linking Poverty and Income Shocks to Risky Sexual Behaviour: Evidence from a Panel Study of Young Adults in Cape TownSouth African Journal of Economics Vol. 76:S1 May (with David Lam and Murray Leibbrandt).
2004. How Household Context Affects Search Outcomes of the Unemployed in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa: A Panel Data AnalysisSouth African Journal of Economics Vol. 72:3 September.
2002. Individual, Household and Regional Determinants of Labour Force Attachments in South Africa: Evidence from the 1997 October Household SurveySouth African Journal of Economics. Vol. 70:5 June (with Farah Pirouz).
2000. The Empirical Evidence on the Location Determinants of FDI and South Africa’s Industrial Development Strategy. Transformation. (with Judith Streak) Vol. 41.
Other Writing
2016. New Cellular Networks in Malawi: Correlates of Service Rollout and Network Performance (with Dimitrios Batzilis, Emily Oster, Rebecca Thornton and Deric Zanera) In African Successes, Volume III: Modernization and Development, (eds) Edwards, Sebastian, Simon Johnson, and David Weil. Issued as NBER Working Paper 16616.
2007. Household and Community Income, Economic Shocks and Risky Sexual Behavior of Young Adults: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 2002 and 2005 (with David Lam and Murray Leibbrandt). AIDS. November; 21(Suppl 7): S49–S56.