Research

Papers:

• [PhD Job Market Paper] “Unconditional Cash Transfers and Intra-Household Decision-making: Evidence from Lab-in-the-Field Experiments in Rural Nigeria”
  • Received the Bruce and Mary Ann Gardner Dissertation Enhancement Grant, University of Maryland – College Park, May 2017
  • Received funding for field work from the Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank, 2017-18

• “Encouraging Sanitation Adoption Leveraging Social Networks” with A. Mushfiq Mobarak [Yale University] and Raymond Guiteras [North Carolina State University]
  • Pre-Analysis Plan

• “Training Mentors to Improve Mentee Business Outcomes – Experimental Evidence from Female Owned Microenterprises in Ethiopia” with Markus Goldstein [World Bank] and Gautam Bastian [World Bank]
  • Pre-Analysis Plan

• “Women, Schooling and Marriage in Rural Philippines” with Sanjaya De Silva [Bard College]
  • Levy Economics Institute Working Paper, No. 701

Research in Progress:

• “Skin in the Game: Micro-equity and Mentorship for Online Freelancing based Micro-entrepreneurs in Bangladesh” with Simon Quinn [University of Oxford], Muhammad Meki [University of Oxford] and Abu S. Shonchoy [Florida Intn’l University]
  • Received Exploratory Research Grant from DFID Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL)
  • Project Description on PEDL website