Working Papers
2022. Leaping or Creeping up the Energy Ladder: Electricity Diffusion in a Rural African Setting (with Mark Collinson, Wayne Twine, and Martin Wittenberg). Draft coming soon.
2021. Home production, Women’s market work, and Structural Transformation (with L. Rachel Ngai). January. STEG Pathfinding paper
Published and Forthcoming
2023. Labor Migration, Capital Accumulation, and the Structure of Rural Labor Markets (with Grace Kumchulesi and Martine Mariotti). Accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics
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 Transformation Journal 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 Decades Journal 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 Chile Labour 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 Homelands The Economic Journal, 127 (September), 1906–1939.
2016. The Long-Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2016, 8(4): 1–35 (with Martine Mariotti).
2015. Migration, Congestion Externalities, and the Evaluation of Spatial Investments Journal 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 Education The Review 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 Africa Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 27–45 (with Vimal Ranchhod).
2011. The Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment: New Evidence from South Africa American 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 Town South 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 Analysis South 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 Survey The South 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.