Papers
Publications and working papers by BIG Lab affiliated faculty and graduate students:
| Author | Title | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santosh Kumar Gautam | The effects of childhood immunization programs on health and education: micro-evidence from India | Jul 01, 2026 | Publication |
| Danice Guzman, Wyatt Brooks, Aloysius Byaruhanga, Joseph Kaboski , Marie Nakitende, Juliet Nambuubi, Jackline Oluoch-Aridi, and Francis Ssekijjo | Community lending with external capital: evidence from a randomised evaluation in Uganda | May 20, 2026 | Publication |
| Coleson Weir | Education, marriage, and banning female genital cutting: evidence from Benin | May 09, 2026 | Publication |
| Morgan Hardy, Isaac Mbiti, and Jamie McCasland | Persistent Impacts of Improved Apprenticeship Training Quality | May 01, 2026 | Publication |
| Cynthia Bansak, Eva Dziadula, and Madeline Zavodny | The role of coresident grandparents in the Asian-white maternal employment gap in the US | Apr 25, 2026 | Publication |
| Andrés Santos Vargas, Enrique Seira, and Alberto Simpse | Satisfaction with democracy predicts democratic behaviors | Apr 03, 2026 | Publication |
| Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Eva Dziadula | Does Granting Driving Privileges to Undocumented Immigrants Affect Fatal Hit-and-Runs? | Mar 23, 2026 | Publication |
| Benjamin Davis, Erdgin Mane, Leman Yonca Gurbuzer, Giulia Caivano, Natalia Piedrahita, Kate Schneider, Nimra Azhar, Marwan Benali, Nidhi Chaudhary, Rodrigo Rivera, Ramya Ambikapathi, Paul Winters, Veronica Boero, and Ester Laske | A New Estimate For Global and Country-Level Employment in Agrifood Systems | Mar 21, 2026 | Publication |
| Eva Dziadula and Jorgen Harris | NACARA: Does Amnesty Affect Marriages of Undocumented Immigrants? | Mar 01, 2026 | Publication |
| Alejandro Estefan | US manufacturing reallocation: Impacts on Mexican labor markets | Feb 07, 2026 | Publication |
| Kathryn Baragwanath and Saad Gulzar | Democracy and the Environment | Feb 02, 2026 | Publication |
| Julie Buhl-Wiggers, Jason T Kerwin, Ricardo Montero de la Piedra, Jeffrey Smith, and Rebecca Thornton | Reading for life: Lasting impacts of a literacy intervention in Uganda | Feb 01, 2026 | Forthcoming |
| Miriam Golden, Saad Gulzar, and Luke Sonnet | Political Responsiveness, Information Provision, and Capacity Gaps | Jan 01, 2026 | Publication |
| Alexander Fertig, Alexandra Hartman, Lakshmi Iyer , and Edmund Malesky | A Field of Her Own: Property Rights and Women’s Agency in Myanmar | Jan 01, 2026 | Publication |
| Juliane Begenau, Saki Bigio, Jeremy Majerovitz, and Matias Vieyra | A Q-Theory of Banks | Jan 01, 2026 | Publication |
| Miriam Golden, Saad Gulzar, and Luke Sonnet | ‘Press 1 for Roads’: Bridging Communication Gaps in Political Representation” | Jan 01, 2026 | Forthcoming |
| Heitor S. Pellegrina and Sebastian Sotelo | Migration, Specialization, and Trade: Evidence from Brazil’s March to the West | Nov 13, 2025 | Publication |
| Kaushalendra Kumar, Ashish Singh, Santosh Kumar Gautam, Abhishek Singh | Calorie Consumption and Wages: Evidence from India’s Labor Market | Nov 01, 2025 | Publication |
| Alejandro Estefan | Female Labour Force Participation, Family Planning Policies, and Fertility: Causal Evidence from Mexico | Oct 24, 2025 | Publication |
| Jailene Castillo, Christina Molinaro, William Pater, and Santosh Kumar Gautam | Water Matters More: Unequal Effects of Water and Sanitation on Child Growth in Mozambique | Oct 20, 2025 | Publication |
| Santosh Kumar Gautam, Ermal llirjani, and Patralekha Ukil | On the Road to a Better Life? Rural Road and Economic Development in Albania | Oct 19, 2025 | Publication |
| Stanislav Rabinovich, Brenda Samaniego de la Parra, and Ronald Wolthoff | Wage Setting Protocols and Labor Market Conditions: Theory and Evidence | Oct 08, 2025 | Publication |
| Lakshmi Iyer and Coleson Weir | The colonial legacy in India: How persistent are the effects of historical institutions? | Oct 01, 2025 | Publication |
| Alejandro Estefan, Romina Ordoñez, Cristina Parilli, and Paul Winters | Hybrid agricultural extension and the adoption of climate-resilient varieties: Evidence from oil palm in the Amazon | Oct 01, 2025 | Publication |
| Latika Chaudhary and Lakshmi Iyer | The Importance of Being Local? Administrative Decentralization and Human Development | Sep 25, 2025 | Publication |
| Sara G. Castellanos, Diego Jiménez-Hernández, Aprajit Mahajan, Eduardo Alcaraz Prous, and Enrique Seira | Contract Terms, Employment Shocks, and Default in Credit Cards | Sep 24, 2025 | Publication |
| Bruce Wydick, Gianna Camacho, and Patrizio Piraino | Hope Walks: The Impact of Clubfoot Treatment on Human Flourishing in Ethiopia | Sep 18, 2025 | Publication |
| Julie Buhl-Wiggers, Rebecca Thornton , and Irina Valenzuela | Girls outperforming boys: Pre-school gender gap in literacy and numeracy skills in Sub-Saharan Africa | Sep 16, 2025 | Publication |
| Ariel Akerman, Jacob Moscona, Heitor S. Pellegrina, and Karthik Sastry | Public R&D Meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution | Sep 15, 2025 | Working Paper |
| Cynthia Bansak, Eva Dziadula, and Sophie Xuefei Wang | The Effect of Family Size on Intergenerational Support for Elderly Parents and Their Life Expectancy: Evidence from China’s ‘Later, Longer, Fewer’ Campaign | Aug 16, 2025 | Publication |
| Gemma Dipoppa and Saad Gulzar | Air pollution could be reduced by incentivizing local government officials to control crop burning | Aug 15, 2025 | Publication |
| Farid Farrokhi, Elliot Kang, Heitor S. Pellegrina , and Sebastian Sotelo | Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective | Aug 01, 2025 | Working Paper |
| Lakshmi Iyer , Coleson Weir , and Susan L. Ostermann | Political Incumbents and India’s Electoral Redistricting: Evidence from Two States | Aug 01, 2025 | Working Paper |
| Savita Diggs and Taryn Dinkelman | Age Heaping in African Census Data: Prevalence and Implications for Regression Discontinuity Research Designs | Jul 31, 2025 | Working Paper |
| Joyce Sadka, Enrique Seira, and Christopher Woodruff | Accessing Higher Quality Justice | Jul 29, 2025 | Working Paper |
| A. Nilesh Fernando and Niharika Singh | Regulation by Reputation? Intermediaries, Labor Abuses, and International Migration | Jul 14, 2025 | Publication |
| Lucas W. Davis, Shaun McRae, and Enrique Seira | The Competitive Effects of Entry in Deregulated Mexican Gasoline Market | Jul 14, 2025 | Publication |
| Samuel Berlinski, Matias Busso, Taryn Dinkelman and Claudia Martínez A. | Reducing parent-school information gaps and improving school outcomes: Evidence from high-frequency text messaging in Chile | Jul 01, 2025 | Publication |
| Irma Clots-Figueras & Lakshmi Iyer | Gender and natural experiments in developing countries | Jul 01, 2025 | Publication |
| Santosh Gautam, Alasana Suno, Elizabeth Wood | Effect of antenatal care on birth outcomes in the Gambia: A propensity score matching analysis | Jun 18, 2025 | Publication |
| A. Nilesh Fernando and Niharika Singh | The Grass is Not Always Greener: The Effects of Local Labor Market Information on Search and Employment | May 01, 2025 | Working Paper |
| Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Yasir Khan, and Arman Rezaee | Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan | Apr 01, 2025 | Publication |
| Santosh Kumar Gautam, Monica Shandal, Ariel Zucker | Connectivity and Rural Development: Examining India’s Rural Road Construction Scheme | Mar 03, 2025 | Working Paper |
| Alhagie Sowe, Elizabeth Wood, Santosh Kumar Gautam | Maternal Anemia as a Predictor of Childhood Anemia: Evidence from Gambian Health Data | Feb 28, 2025 | Publication |
| Kenneth F. Greene, Erin L. Rossiter, Enrique Seira, and Alberto Simpser | Interacting as equals reduces partisan polarization in Mexico | Jan 08, 2025 | Publication |
| Saad Gulzar, Durgesh Pathak, Sarah Thompson, and Aliz Tóth | Can Party Elites Shape the Rank-and-File? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in India | Jan 05, 2025 | Publication |
| Alberto Ciancio, Fabrice Kämpfen, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Rebecca Thornton | Surviving bad news: health information without treatment options | Jan 03, 2025 | Publication |
| Ari Bronsoler, Jonathan Gruber, and Enrique Seira | Private Sector Provision as an "Escape Valve": The Mexico Diabates Experiment | Jan 01, 2025 | Publication |
| Federico Huneeus, Joseph Kaboski, Mauricio Larrain, Sergio L Schmukler, and Mario Vera | Crisis Credit, Employment Protection, Indebtedness, and Risk | Dec 16, 2024 | Working Paper |
| Saad Gulzar and Muhammad Yasir Khan | Good Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance | Dec 03, 2024 | Publication |
| Julie Buhl-Wiggers, Jason T Kerwin, Jeffrey Smith, and Rebecca Thornton | Learning More about Teachers: Estimating Teacher Value-Added and Treatment Effects on Teacher Value-Added in Northern Uganda | Nov 28, 2024 | Working Paper |
| Patrizio Piraino and Joanna Ryan | The price of fairness: Experimental evidence on the limits to demand for redistribution | Nov 01, 2024 | Publication |
| Gemma Dipoppa and Saad Gulzar | Bureaucrat Incentives Reduce Crop Burning and Child Mortality in South Asia | Oct 23, 2024 | Publication |
| Alejandro Estefan, Roberto Gerhard, Joseph P. Kaboski, Illenin O. Kondo, and Wei Qian | Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes: Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban | Oct 16, 2024 | Working Paper |
| K. Mangal and Niharika Singh | Gender Dynamics in Entry into Competitive Careers: Evidence from Indian Civil Services | Oct 01, 2024 | Working Paper |
| Jamie Bleck, Jacopo Bonan, Philippe Lemay-Boucher, Bassirou Sarr | Drinking Tea with the Neighbors: Informal Clubs, General Trust, and Trustworthiness in Mali | Sep 01, 2024 | Publication |
| Francisco J. Buera, Joseph Kaboski, Martí Mestieri, and Daniel G. O’Connor | The Stable Transformation Path | Jul 14, 2024 | Working Paper |
| Farrokhi, Farid, Ahmad Lashkaripour and Heitor Pellegrina | Trade and technology adoption in distorted economies | Jul 01, 2024 | Publication |
| Priyasmita Ghosh and Rebecca Thornton | The mother-in-law effect: Heterogeneous impacts of counseling on family planning take-up in Jordan | Jun 18, 2024 | Publication |
| Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Arman Rezaee, and Jacob N. Shapiro | Extending the Formal State: The Case of Pakistan’s Frontier Crimes Regulation | May 28, 2024 | Publication |
| Joseph Kaboski, Jianyu Lu, Wei Qian, and Lixia Ren | Melitz Meets Lewis: The Impacts of Roads on Structural Transformation and Businesses | May 13, 2024 | Working Paper |
| Taryn Dinkelman, Mark Collinson, Wayne Twine and Martin Wittenberg | Leaping or creeping up the energy ladder? Technology adoption in rural African households | May 10, 2024 | Working Paper |
| Taryn Dinkelman, Grace Kumchulesi, Martine Mariotti | International Migration Kickstarted Structural Transformation in Malawi | May 08, 2024 | Publication |
| Joseph P. Kaboski, Molly Lipscomb, Virgiliu Midrigan, and Carolyn Pelnik | How Important are Investment Indivisibilities for Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda | May 01, 2024 | Working Paper |
| Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer , Joseph Vecci | Leader Identity and Coordination | Mar 01, 2024 | Publication |
| Tiago Cavalcanti, Joseph P. Kaboski, Bruno Martins, and Cezar Santos | Financing Costs and Development | Mar 01, 2024 | Working Paper |
| Taryn Dinkelman, Grace Kumchulesi, Martine Mariotti | Labor Migration, Capital Accumulation, and the Structure of Rural Labor Markets | Feb 09, 2024 | Publication |
| Wyatt Brooks, Danice Guzman, and Joseph Kaboski | Capitalizing Village Economies | Feb 01, 2024 | Working Paper |
| Brenda Samaniego de la Parra, Andrea Otero-Cortes, and Leonardo Fabio Morales | The labor market effects of facilitating social security contributions under part-time employment contracts: Evidence from Colombia | Jan 12, 2024 | Publication |
| Julie Buhl-Wiggers, Jason T Kerwin, Juan Muñoz-Morales, Jeffrey Smith, Rebecca Thornton | Some children left behind: Variation in the effects of an educational intervention | Jan 07, 2024 | Publication |
| Gabriel Brown, Morgan Hardy, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie McCasland, and Isabelle Salcher | Can Financial Incentives to Firms Improve Apprentice Training? Experimental Evidence from Ghana | Jan 03, 2024 | Publication |
| Brenda Samaniego de la Parra and León Fernández Bujanda | Increasing the cost of informal employment: Evidence from Mexico | Jan 01, 2024 | Publication |
| A. Nilesh Fernando, Alison Lodermeier, Paul Shaloka | The Domestic Effects of an International Migration Ban: Evidence from Sri Lanka | Dec 05, 2023 | Working Paper |
| A. Nilesh Fernando, Niharika Singh, Gabriel Tourek | Hiring Frictions and the Promise of Online Job Portals: Evidence from India | Dec 01, 2023 | Publication |
| Yoichi Sugita, Kensuke Teshima, and Enrique Seira | Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers | Nov 02, 2023 | Publication |
| Alejandro Estefan, Marina Improta, Romina Ordoñez, Paul Winters | Digital Training for Micro-Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala | Sep 01, 2023 | Publication |
| Roxana Elena Manea, Patrizio Piraino and Martina Viarengo | Crime, inequality and subsidized housing: Evidence from South Africa | Aug 01, 2023 | Publication |
| Saad Gulzar , Apoorva Lal, and Benjamin Pasquale | Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas | Jun 09, 2023 | Publication |
| Farzana Afridi, Sisir Debnath, Taryn Dinkelman, Komal Sareen | Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women’s Time in Home Production | May 01, 2023 | Publication |
| Isaac Mbiti, Mauricio Romero, and Youdi Schipper | Designing Effective Teacher Performance Pay Programs: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania | Jan 07, 2023 | Publication |
| Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar , Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Yasir Khan, and Arman Rezaee | The Political Economy of Public Sector Absence | Jan 05, 2023 | Publication |
| Giacomo De Giorgi, Andres Drenik, and Enrique Seira | The Extension of Credit with Non-excluive Contracts and Sequential Banking | Jan 02, 2023 | Publication |
| Joyce Sadka, Enrique Seira, and Christopher Woodruf | Information and Bargaining through Agents: Experimental Evidence from Mexico's Labor Courts | Jan 02, 2023 | Publication |
| Joe Kaboski, Viva Bartkus, Wyatt Brooks, Carolyn Pelnik | Big Fish in Thin Markets: Competing with the Middlemen to Increase Market Access in the Amazon | Mar 01, 2022 | Publication |
| Saad Gulzar, Miguel R. Rueda, Nelson A. Ruiz | Can Campaign Contribution Limits Curb the Influence of Money in Politics? | Jan 10, 2022 | Publication |
| John Cawley, Michael Daly, and Rebecca Thornton | The effect of beverage taxes on youth consumption and body mass index: Evidence from Mauritius | Jan 06, 2022 | Publication |
| Saad Gulzar, Thomas S. Robinson, and Nelson A. Ruiz | How Campaigns Respond to Ballot Position: A New Mechanism for Order Effects | Jan 04, 2022 | Publication |
| Isaac Mbiti and Danila Serra | Health workers’ behavior, patient reporting and reputational concerns: lab-in-the-field experimental evidence from Kenya | Jan 04, 2022 | Publication |
| Taryn Dinkelman and L. Rachel Ngai | Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural Transformation | Jan 03, 2022 | Publication |
| Cyrill Walters, Graeme G. Mehl, Patrizio Piraino , Jonathan D. Jansen, Samantha Kriger | The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on the scholarly productivity of women academics in South Africa | Jan 03, 2022 | Publication |
| Isabel Musse, Rebecca Thornton, and Dirgha Ghimire | How do women learn they are pregnant? The introduction of clinics and pregnancy awareness in Nepal | Jan 03, 2022 | Publication |
| A. Nilesh Fernando, Alison Lodermeier | Understanding Adverse Outcomes in Gulf Migration: Evidence from Administrative Data from Sri Lanka | Jan 01, 2022 | Publication |
| Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer | Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity | Nov 01, 2021 | Publication |
| A. Nilesh Fernando | Seeking the Treated: The Impact of Mobile Extension on Peer Information Exchange in India | Nov 01, 2021 | Publication |
| Arturo Aguilar, Emilio Gutierrez, and Enrique Seira | The Effectiveness of Sin Food Taxes: Evidence from Mexico | Apr 02, 2021 | Publication |
| Lauren Honig, Amy Erica Smith, Jaimie Bleck | What Stymies Action on Climate Change? Religious Institititons, Marginalization and Efficacy in Kenya | Feb 20, 2021 | Publication |
| Frederico Finan, Enrique Seira, and Alberto Simpser | Voting with One’s Neighbors: Evidence from Migration within Mexico | Jan 10, 2021 | Publication |
| Saad Gulzar, Zuhad Hai, and Binod Kumar Paudel | Information, Candidate Selection, and Quality of Representation: Evidence from Nepal | Jan 10, 2021 | Publication |
| Jacobus Cilliers, Isaac Mbiti, and Andrew Zeitlin | Can Public Rankings Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Tanzania | Jan 07, 2021 | Publication |