WORKING PAPERS
“From Childhood Abduction to Adulthood:
Long-term Consequences for Women in Uganda” with A. Cassar
(University of San Francisco), E. Kandpal (Center for
Global Development), M. Lambert (Texas A&M University) and C. Mbabazi (Makerere University).
R&R, Journal of Development
Economics.
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PDF
(Dec 2025)
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CGD blog
post
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Pre-registration:
AER Registry.
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Protocol
and Games’ Instructions.
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Funded by The World Bank.
“Proud to belong: The impact of ethics training on police
officers in Ghana” with D. Harris
(University of Oxford), O. Borcan (U of East Anglia),
H. Telli (International Growth Center), Bruno Schettini (Brazil Ministry of the Economy), and S. Dercon (University of Oxford). CSAE working paper. First
draft: June 2022. Revised (2024): IZA working paper and CEPR discussion paper.
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PDF
(Jun 2025)
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News
Brief - Stanford Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (May
2025)
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Probable
Causation podcast Episode 73
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Center for the Studies of African Economies (CSAE) podcast
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The Takeaway
Policy Brief, Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics and Public Policy.
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PDF
(Aug 2024)
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VoxDev Talk with Munshi Sulaiman
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The Takeaway Policy Brief, Mosbacher
Institute for Trade, Economics and Public Policy.
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Funded by the Spencer Foundation.
“My Department Cares: Supporting Students through Encouragement Emails” with D. Gomez-Vasquez (Texas
A&M University). Preliminary draft
available upon request.
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Pre-registration:
AER Registry
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Slides.
“Activating
change: The role of information and beliefs in social activism” with F. Afridi (Indian Statistical
Institute), A. Basistha (Indian Statistical
Institute) and A. Dhillon (King’s College).
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PDF
(Apr 2025)
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Pre-registration: AsPredicted.
“Can Crises Affect Citizen Activism? Evidence
from a Pandemic” with F. Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute), A. Basistha (Indian Statistical Institute) and A. Dhillon (King’s College). CAGE Working
paper, November 2023. New draft (March 2025).
PUBLISHED
“Role
Models in Developing Countries.”
forthcoming in for the Handbook of
Experimental Development Economics, edited by Utteeyo
Dasgupta and Pushkar Maitra. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025. 123-135.
“Gender and
leadership in organizations: The threat of backlash” with P.
Chakraborty (Centenary College). The Economic
Journal, 134, Issue 660, May 2024. Link
to paper and Ungated.
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Online Appendix with the instructions
of the lab and online experiments.
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Previous drafts circulated under the titles
“Gender differences in top leadership roles: Does worker backlash
matter?” and “Gender and leadership in organizations: Promotions,
demotions and angry workers”]
“Mobilizing
parents at home and at school: An experiment on primary education in Angola”
with V. Di Maio
(World Bank), S. Leeffers (Nova University of Lisbon)
and P. Vicente (Nova University of Lisbon). Economic Development and
Cultural Change, 72:3, 1069-1116, 2024. Link to paper.
Project website; GlobaDev Blog post
“Can
high school counselors help the economics pipeline?” with Melissa Gentry (Texas A&M) and Jonathan Meer
(Texas A&M). American Economic Association P&P 113: 462-66. Link
to paper.
· Presented at ASSA 2023: slides
· Video recording of the presentation, as part of the CSWEP session on “Gender in the Economics Profession”
“Health
Workers’ Behavior, Patient Reporting and Reputational Concerns:
Lab-in-the-Field Experimental Evidence from Kenya” with I. Mbiti (U of Virginia). Experimental Economics, 25.2 (2022):
514-556. Link to
paper and Ungated.
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Instructions
of the lab-in-the-field experiment here.
“Gender
Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models” with C. Porter (Lancaster University). American
Economic Journal: Applied, 12(3):
226–254. Link
to paper and Ungated.
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Slides
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Media
Coverage: Dow
Jones Moneyish,
Pacific
Standard, The
University Network, Forbes.
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Read
about the study in the new CEPR eBook on Women and Economics.
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Read
an early summary of the study: SMU
Press release.
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Watch
a short
video of me talking about the study.
“Motivating Whistleblowers” with J. Butler (UC Merced)
and G. Spagnolo (SITE, Stockholm School of
Economics). Management Science 66.2: 605-621, 2020. Link to paper
and Ungated.
“Corrupt Police” with K. Abbink
(Monash University) and D. Ryvkin (FSU). Games and
Economic Behavior, 123: 101-119, September 2020. Ungated PDF.
“Corruption and competition among bureaucrats: An experimental
study”, with D. Ryvkin (FSU). Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 175, July 2020, pp
439-451. Link
to paper. Experimental instructions here.
“Is more competition always better? An
experimental study of extortionary corruption”, with D. Ryvkin
(FSU). Economic Inquiry, 57 (1), January 2019: 50-72. Link to paper.
“Corruption, Social Judgment and Culture: An Experiment”, with T. Salmon (SMU). Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, 142: 64-78, 2017. Link
to paper.
“I paid a bribe: An
experiment on information sharing and extortionary
corruption”, with D. Ryvkin (FSU) and James
Tremewan (U of Vienna). European Economic Review,
94: 1-22, 2017. Link
to paper
“Participatory accountability and
collective action: Experimental evidence from Albania”, with A. Barr
(U of Nottingham) and T. Packard (The World Bank). European Economic Review, 68: 250–269, 2014. Link
to paper.
“Intermediaries in
corruption: An experiment”, with M. Drugov
(Carlos III de Madrid) and J. Hamman (FSU). Experimental Economics,
17(1): 78-99, 2014. Link to
paper.
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Winner
of the Editor’s prize for the best
paper published in Experimental Economics in the year 2014.
“Combining top-down and
bottom-up accountability: Evidence from a bribery experiment”. Journal
of Law, Economics and Organization, 28(3): 569-587, August 2012. Online advance access here.
“Anti-corruption
Policies: Lessons from the Lab”, with K. Abbink.
In D. Serra and L. Wantchekon (eds.) New Advances in Experimental Research on
Corruption, Research In Experimental Economics Volume 15, Bingly:
Emerald Group Publishing, June 2012.
“Intrinsic
motivations and the non-profit health sector: Evidence from Ethiopia”,
with P. Serneels (UEA) and A. Barr (U of Nottingham) Personality
and Individual Differences, 51(3):
309-314. Link to paper.
“How corruptible are you?
Bribery under uncertainty”, with D. Ryvkin
(FSU), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81(2012): 466-477.
Link to paper.
“Corruption and Culture: An experimental Analysis”, with A. Barr (U of Nottingham), Journal of Public Economics, 94, Issues 11-12, December 2010. Link to paper .
“The effects of externalities and
framing on bribery in a petty corruption experiment”, with A. Barr (U
of Nottingham), Experimental Economics, 12 (4):
488-503, 2009. Link to paper.
Discovering
the Real World –Health Workers’ Career Choices and Early Work
Experience in Ethiopia, with P. Serneels (UEA) and M. Lindelow
(World Bank), The World Bank, Washington DC.
“Empirical Determinants of Corruption: A
sensitivity Analysis,” Public Choice 126 (1-2),
225-256, 2006. PDF.
EDITED VOLUME
New
Advances in Experimental Research on Corruption, edited with Leonard Wantchekon
(Princeton University), Emerald Group Publishing, June 2012.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Experimental Development Economics: Current Scope and Future Directions” with U. Dasgupta, P. Jakiela, P. Maitra, O. Ozier and A. Viceisza, forthcoming in for the Handbook of Experimental Development Economics, edited by Utteeyo Dasgupta and Pushkar Maitra. Edward Elgar. In press.
“Role Models in Developing
Countries” forthcoming in for the
Handbook of Experimental Development
Economics, edited by Utteeyo Dasgupta
and Pushkar Maitra. Edward
Elgar. In press.
“Anticorruption
policies: Lessons from the lab” with
K. Abbink. In D.Serra
and L. Wantchekon (eds.), New Advances in
experimental Research on Corruption”, Emerald group Publishing Limited,
2012.