Publications | Political Economy

Temporary Gains, Lasting Questions: Experimental Evidence of Short- and Medium-Term Impacts of Public Works in Rural Egypt (with Kevin Croke and John Quattrochi). Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2026 (forthcoming)

Short-term and long-term effects of cash for work: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Tunisia (with Jessica Leight). Journal of Development Studies, 2025, 61(6): 989-1014

https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2025.2451875

From Workfare to Economic and Sociopolitical Stability? Evidence from a Randomized Trial in War-Torn Eastern Congo (with Paul Brandily, Lodewijk Smets, Peter van der Windt and Marijke Verpoorten). The World Bank Economic Review, 2025, 39(3): 711- 730

https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhae043

Do Public Works Programs Have Sustained Impacts? A Review of Experimental Studies from LMICs (with Aanchal Bagga, Marcus Holmlund, Nausheen Khan, and Patrick Premand). The World Bank Research Observer, 2024, 41 (1): 1–38

https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lkae011

Cash Transfers and Migration: Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (with Jules Gazeaud and Olivier Sterk). Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (1): 143–157.

https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01041

Can community service grants foster social and economic integration for youth? A randomized trial in Kazakhstan. Journal of Development Economics 2021, 153: 102718

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102718

Effects of public policy on child labor: Current knowledge, gaps, and implications for program design (with Ana Dammert, Jacobus de Hoop and Furio Rosati). World Development, 2018, Vol. 110 (5): 104-123

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.05.001

The Resource curse, democracy, and development: Lessons from strange cases (with Ellis Goldberg and Erik Wibbels). Comparative Politics Studies, 2008, Vol. 41(4-5): 477-514

https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414007313123