Revision Requested / Under Review:
"Spatial Mobility, Economic Opportunity, and Crime" with Guarav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Daniel Ramos, Jorge Tamayo, Audrey Tiew (updated September 2023) [revision requested from American Economic Review]
"Organizational Responses to Product Cycles: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Jorge Tamayo, and Nicolas Torres (updated August 2023) [revision requested from Journal of Political Economy]
"An Anatomy of Performance Monitoring" with Achyuta Adhvaryu and Jorge Tamayo (updated June 2022) [revision requested from Journal of Political Economy]
"Sotto Voce: The Impacts of Technology to Enhance Worker Voice" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Smit Gade, and Teresa Molina (updated September 2021) [revision requested from Economic Journal]
"On the Allocation and Impacts of Managerial Training" with Achyuta Adhvaryu and Emir Murathanoglu (updated June 2023) [under review]
"Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Parker Howell, and Jorge Tamayo (updated November 2023) [under review]
"Learning and Selection in the Sorting of Households Across Sectors" with Jean-Francois Gauthier and Teresa Molina (updated December 2023) [under review]
Accepted/Forthcoming:
"No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, and Jorge Tamayo (updated December 2021) conditionally accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics
"Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-Francois Gauthier, and Jorge Tamayo (updated June 2022) forthcoming at Journal of the European Economic Association
"Dust and Death: Evidence from the West African Harmattan" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Prashant Bharadwaj, and James Fenske, and Richard Stanley (updated January 2019) forthcoming at The Economic Journal
"Fetal origins of mental health: evidence from Africa" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, James Fenske, and Namrata Kala (updated Februaru 2019) forthcoming at Economic Development and Cultural Change
Publications:
"Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the Progresa Experiment" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Teresa Molina, and Jorge Tamayo (updated June 2021) The Economic Journal 134(657): 1-22, December 2023
"Hostel Takeover: Living Conditions, Reference Dependence, and the Well-being of Migrant Workers" with Achyuta Adhvaryu and Huayu Xu (updated July 2023) Journal of Public Economics 226, October 2023
"The Health Costs of Dirty Energy: Evidence from the Capacity Market in Colombia" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Teresa Molina, Jorge Tamayo, and Nicolas Torres (updated August 2022) Journal of Development Economics 164, September 2023, 103116
"Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia" with Guarav Khanna, Carlos Medina, and Jorge Tamayo (updated January 2021) The Economic Journal 133(654): 2427-2448, August 2023
"Returns to On-the-job Soft Skills Training" with Achyuta Adhvaryu and Namrata Kala (updated December 2021) Journal of Political Economy 131(8): 2165-2208, August 2023
"Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics" with Achyuta Adhvaryu and Jorge Tamayo (updated January 2021) Review of Economic Studies 90(4): 1569-1607, July 2023
"Expectations, Wage Hikes, and Worker Voice:Evidence from a Field Experiment" with Achyuta Adhvaryu and Teresa Molina (updated April 2021) The Economic Journal 132(645): 1978-1993, July 2022
"Management and Shocks to Worker Productiviy" with Achyuta Adhvaryu and Namrata Kala (updated March 2021) Journal of Political Economy 130(1): 1-47, January 2022 lead article
"(Mis)information and Anxiety: Evidence from a Randomized Covid-19 Information Campaign" with D Sadish and Achyuta Adhvaryu Journal of Development Economics 152, September 2021, 102699
"Job Loss, Credit and Crime in Colombia" with Guarav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Christian Posso, and Jorge Tamayo American Economic Review Insights 3(1): 97-114, March 2021
"Resources, Conflict, and Economic Development in Africa" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, James Fenske, and Guarav Khanna Journal of Development Economics 149, March 2021, 102598
"The Light and the Heat: Productivity Co-benefits of Energy-saving Technology" with Achyuta Adhvaryu and Namrata Kala Review of Economics and Statistics 102(4): 779-792, October 2020
"When It Rains It Pours: The Long-run Economic Impacts of Salt Iodization in the United States" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Steven Bednar, Teresa Molina, and Quynh Nguyen (formerly circulated as "Salt Iodization and the Enfranchisement of the American Worker") Review of Economics and Statistics 102(2): 395-407, May 2020
"Booms, Busts, and Household Enterprise: Evidence from Coffee Farmers in Tanzania" with Achyuta Adhvaryu and Namrata Kala World Bank Economic Review December 2019
"Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health" with Achyuta Adhvaryu and James Fenske Journal of Political Economy 127(4): 1516-1549, August 2019
"Health, Enterprise, and Labor Complementarity in the Household" with Achyuta Adhvaryu (formerly circulated as "Labor Complementarities and Health in the Agricultural Household") Journal of Development Economics 126(3): 91-111, May 2017
"Endowments at Birth and Parents' Investments in Children" with Achyuta Adhvaryu The Economic Journal 126(593): 781-820, June 2016
"Returns to Treatment in the Formal Health Care Sector: Evidence from Tanzania" with Achyuta Adhvaryu American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7(3): 29-57, August 2015
"Schooling, Child Labor and the Returns to Healthcare in Tanzania" with Achyuta Adhvaryu Journal of Human Resources 47(2): 364-396, March 2012
Working Papers:
"Optimal Employment Contracts with Psychometric Screening and AI Prediction" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-Francois Gauthier, and Jorge Tamayo
"Model Selection for Optimal Screening with AI in Hiring" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-Francois Gauthier, and Jorge Tamayo (updated May 2022)
"Diagnosing Quality: Learning, Amenitites, and the Demand for Health Care" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Emilio Gutierrez, and Jorge Tamayo (updated July 2020)
"Learning about Comparative Advantage in Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Thailand" (updated February 2014) Online Supplement
"Describing the Marginal Enrollee: Merit-Based Tuition Subsidies Revisited" (updated July 2016)
Works in Progress:
"AI-Directed Job Search among Frontline Service Workers" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-Francois Gauthier, Parker Howell, and Jorge Tamayo
"AI-Based Screening and Targeted Training to Alleviate Barriers to Female Advancement in the Workplace" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-Francois Gauthier, Emir Murathanoglu, and Jorge Tamayo
Book Chapters / Reviews / Other:
"An Experiment in India Shows How Much Companies Have to Gain by Investing in Their Employees" with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Lavanya Garg, and Namrata Kala Harvard Business Review, July 2017
"Want Fewer Employees to Quit? Listen to Them" with Achyuta Adhvaryu and Teresa Molina Harvard Business Review, April 2019
"A Whisper to a Shout: leveraging technology and organizational incentives to amplify worker voice" with Mamta Pimoli et al. Development Engineering, forthcoming