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PUBLICATIONS

Magnitude and determinants of excess total, age- and sex-specific all-cause mortality in 24 countries worldwide during 2020 and 2021: results on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from the C-MOR project
(with the C-MOR Consortium)
BMJ Global Health Forthcoming.

Information on Cancer Prevalence and Oncologic Insurance Take-up
(with Daniela Caceres and Melissa Valdivia)
Economics Bulletin Forthcoming.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on total, sex- and age-specific all-cause mortality in 20 countries worldwide during 2020: results from the C-MOR Project
(with the C-MOR Consortium)
International Journal of Epidemiology Vol 52, Number 3, June. 2023.

Moving down the energy ladder: Average in-utero temperature and fuel choice in adulthood
Resource and Energy Economics Vol 68, 101297. 2022.

Premature mortality attributable to COVID-19: potential years of life lost in 17 countries around the world, January-August 2020
(with the C-MOR Consortium)
BMC Public Health Vol 22, Article Number 54. 2022.

Competition and gender in the lab vs. field: Experiments from off-grid renewable energy entrepreneurs in rural Rwanda.
(with Rebecca Klege, Rowan Clarke and Martine Visser)
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Vol. 91, 101662. 2021.

Business training programs and microenterprise formalization in Peru
Cogent Economics and Finance Vol. 8, No. 1, 1791546. 2020.

Gender and entrepreneurship in the renewable energy sector of Rwanda
(with Rowan Philip Clarke, Amanda B. Elam, Rebecca A. Klege, Anita Shankar, and Martine Visser)
IDS Bulletin Vol. 51, No. 1, pages 53-70. 2020.

On the peer effects of star students
(with Pia Basurto and Gaby Cuadra)
Applied Economics Letters Vol. 25, No. 12, pages 821-825. 2018.

Household electrification and indoor air pollution
(with Maximo Torero)
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 86 (November), pages 81-92. 2017.

Economic shocks and democratization in Africa
(with Ted Miguel and Shanker Satyanath)
Political Science Research and Methods Vol. 2 No. 1, pages 33-47. 2014. [Replication Materials]

WORKING PAPERS

Short-run subsidies, take-up, and long-term demand for off-grid solar for the poor:
Evidence from large-scale randomized trials in Rwanda

(with Rowan Clarke and Martine Visser)
EFD Working Paper 20-34

Household electrification and labor supply: Experimental evidence from El Salvador
(with Maximo Torero) [Under review]

Intra-firm spillovers of export promotion programs
(with Willy Sacio)
Peruvian Economic Association Working Paper #138

In-utero weather shocks and learning outcomes
Peruvian Economic Association Working Paper #137

Long-term effects of weather during gestation on education and labor outcomes: Evidence from Peru
(with Sam Heft-Neal and Tania Perez)
Peruvian Economic Association Working Paper #134

WORK IN PROGRESS AND PROJECTS IN THE FIELD

Behavioral inattention and human capital accumulation (with Lucina Rodriguez)

Home visits in the fight against iron-deficiency anemia
(with Juan Francisco Castro and Pablo Lavado)
[AEA RCT Registry]

Welfare effects of clean lighting in Rwanda
(with Rowan Phillip Clarke, Rembrand M. Koning and Martine Visser)
[Project Description] [Notes from the Scoping Phase]

The effect of microenterprise gender composition on business outcomes, prosocial expenditure and girls' aspirations: Experimental evidence from rural Rwanda (with Rowan Phillip Clarke, Rembrand M. Koning and Martine Visser)
[AEA RCT Registry]

Business Safety Inspections in Peru
(with Guadalupe Bedoya, Ana Goicoechea and Paul Gertler)
[AEA RCT Registry]