Research Interests

Development economics
Labor economics
Political economy

 

Working Papers

  1. Incentives to Teach Badly? After-School Tutoring in Developing Countries
    December 2006  (with P. Glewwe)

 

Publications and Forthcoming Papers

  1. Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines (with A. Lleras-Muney)
    Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming

  2. Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires
    Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.

  3. The Jeffords Effect
    Journal of Law and Economics, October 2006, vol. 49 (2), pp. 397-425.

  4. Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries
    Journal of Political Economy, June 2006, vol. 114 (3), pp. 538-575.

  5. Odious Debt  (with M. Kremer)
    American Economic Review, March 2006, vol. 96 (1), pp. 82-92.