Publications
Publications
Supporting Learning In and Out of School: Evidence from India (with M Björkman Nyqvist)
Journal of Development Economics, Conditionally Accepted
Summary: J-PAL
Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa (with T Rogall)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming
Award: UniCredit Best Presentation Prize at the Applied Economics Workshop in Petralia [link]
Media: World Bank Development Impact blog, VOXEu
Weather Shocks, Child Mortality, and Adaptation: Experimental Evidence from Uganda (with M Björkman Nyqvist, T von Carnap, and J Svensson)
Journal of Development Economics, 176, 103478 (2025)
Data: Replication files here.
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Learning and Wellbeing: Evidence from India (with M Björkman Nyqvist)
Journal of Development Economics 164, 103133 (2023)
Data: Replication files here.
Beyond the Classroom: Global Competencies and the Path to Higher Education (with M Mendola)
Politica economica, Journal of Economic Policy 2, 157-186 (2023)
COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in Low and Middle Income Countries (with Solís Arce, J.S., Warren, S.S., Meriggi, N.F. et al.)
Nature Medicine 27: 1385-1394 (2021)
Media: Nature Medicine Editorial, EurekaAlert, IGC Policy Brief, TCD News, Emergency Services, India Education Diary, Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism, Visão
Reducing Child Mortality in the Last Mile: Experimental Evidence on Community Health Promoters in Uganda (with M Björkman Nyqvist, J Svensson, and D Yanagizawa-Drott)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(3): 155-92 (2019)
Trial registration: AEARCTR-0000530
Data: Online Appendix and replication files here.
Award: Novartis prize for the best health economics paper at the Irish Economic Association conference 2017 [link]
Media: The Washington Post, QUARTZ, NYT, Impakter, JPAL 1, JPAL 2, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Children Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), VoxDev, TCD News, AEA Research Highlights
Armed conflict and schooling in Rwanda: Digging deeper (with M Verpoorten)
Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 25(1): 1-41 (2019)
Award: Walter Isard Annual Award for the Best Article in Peace Economics Peace Science and Public Policy [link].
When Ethnicity Beats Gender: Quotas and Political Representation in Rwanda and Burundi (with B Ingelaere and M Verpoorten)
Development and Change, 49(6): 1361–1391 (2018).
Media: The Conversation, Forskning & Framsteg (in Swedish)
Aid, Trade, and Post-War Recovery of the Rwandan Coffee Sector (with M Verpoorten)
Journal of Eastern African Studies, 12(3): 552-574 (2018)
Data: Online Appendix here and replication files here.
Policy Brief: IOB Policy Brief N.30.
Bilateral Investment Treaties and FDI: Does the Sector Matter? (with L Colen and D Persyn)
World Development, 83: 193-206 (2016)
Food Price Shocks and the Political Economy of Global Agricultural and Development Policy (with M Squicciarini and J Swinnen)
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 36 (3): 387-415 (2014)
Award: Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s AEPP Outstanding Journal Article 2014 [link].
Global hunger: Food crisis spurs aid for poverty (with Mì Squicciarini and J Swinnen)
Nature (correspondence), 501:492 (2013)
What Type of FDI Is Attracted by BITs? (with L Colen)
Chapt. 5 in: De Schutter O., Swinnen J. et Wouters J. (eds) Foreign Direct Investment and Human Development, Routledge (2013)
The Rwandan Coffee Sector: out of the Ordinary (with JN Chrysostome and M Verpoorten)
in: Reyntjens F., Vandeginste S., et Verpoorten M. (eds.) L’Afrique des grands lacs. Annuaire 2011-2012, Paris, L’Harmattan: 397-426 (2012)