Research

Selected Publications

“Last-Mile Delivery Increases Vaccine Uptake in Sierra Leone”, with M Levine, V Ramakrishna, DM Kangbai, M Rozelle, E Tyler, S Cundy, AM Mobarak, and M Voors, Nature (2024)

“An Experiment in Candidate Selection” , with K Casey and AB Kamara, American Economic Review

“Subsidies for Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rural Cameroon”, with E Bulte and AM Mobarak, Journal of Development Economics (2021)

Other Publications

“Gendered Disparities during the Covid-19 Crisis in Sierra Leone”, with M Levine, et al., AEA P&P (2023)

“COVID-19 and Mental Health in Eight Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A prospective cohort study”, with Aksunger, et al., PLoS Medicine (2023)

“End COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries”, with AM Mobarak et al. (2022), Science (2022)

“COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries”, with JS Solis Arce et al., Nature Medicine (2021)

“Falling Living Standards During the COVID-19 Crisis: Quantitative Evidence from Nine Developing Countries”, with D. Egger et al. , (2021)

“Leader and Villager Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Cameroon”, E. Bulte, World Development (2021)

Working Papers

“Participation, Legitimacy, and Fiscal Capacity in Weak States: Evidence from Participatory Budgeting”, with AB Kamara, K Grieco, J Michel, and W Prichard

“Increasing Local Disease Preparedness and Surveillance Capacity for Global Health Security: A Cluster-Randomised Control Trial”, with K Grieco, M Humphreys, S Jaiteh, M Voors, and P van der Windt

“Recruiting and Incentivizing Community Service Providers”, with M Humphreys, S Jaiteh, C Prato, M Voors, and P van der Windt

Old Working Papers

“Direct subsidies and Technology Adoption: The case of Biogas in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon”, with A Berka, K Gardebroek and M Eber

“Gender, Bargaining, and Investments: Experimental Evidence from Rural Cameroon”, with M Eber and MJ Gonzalez Ramirez

Ongoing/In the Field

“Candidate Entry into Local Government”, with K Casey, A Rodriguez, and AB Kamara, registered report accepted for Stage 1 at the Journal of Development Economics

“Strengthening Property Tax Administration through Investments in Targeted Enforcement, Transparency, and Legitimacy” with PM Guzman Lizardo, W Prichard, and S Dercon

“Scaling Bundled Health Services in Rural Sierra Leone” with AM Mobarak and M Voors

“Impact Evaluation of the Rural Renewable Energy Project”, with AM Mobarak and M Voors (writing)

“Market Integration, Mechanization and Agricultural Productivity along the Maize Value Chain in Sierra Leone”, with E Bulte, M Rozelle, and M Voors (in the field)

“Farm Size, Coordination Costs, and Productivity: A Field Experiment on the Poultry Sector in Sierra Leone”, with E Bulte, M Rozelle, and M Voors