PUBLICATIONS SPOTLIGHTS
A selection of publications by CSAE researchers.
The Allocation of Incentives in Multi-Layered Organisations: Evidence from a Community Health Programme in Sierra Leone
Authors: Stefano Caria, Erika Deserranno, Philipp Kastrau, Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta
Journal of Political Economy, August 2025
Adolescent Schooling and Adult Labout Supply: Evidence from COVID-19 School Closures and Reopenings in Kenya
Authors: Dennis Egger, Pierre E Biscaye, Utz J Pape
The World Bank Economic Review, August 2025
The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Long-term Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia
Authors: Kate Orkin, Stefan Dercon, Tanguy Bernard, Giulio Schinaia, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
Quartely Journal of Economics, January 2026
The Impact of Firm Downsizing on Workers: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Ready-made Garment Industry
Authors: Morgan Hardy, Gisella Kagy, Eyoual Demeke, Marc Witte, Christian Johannes Meyer
World Development, Volume 176, April 2024, 106412
English Medium Instruction in Multilingual Contexts: Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia
Author: Jennifer Opare-Kumi
International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 105, March 2024, 102987
Enhancing agency and empowerment in agricultural development projects
A synthesis of mixed methods impact evaluations from the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2)
Authors: Agnes R. Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Hazel J. Malapit, Greg Seymour, Jessica Heckert, Cheryl Doss, Nancy Johnson, Deborah Rubin, Giang Thai, Gayathri Ramani, Emily Myers, GAAP2 for pro-WEAI Study Team 1
Journal of Rural Studies, Volume 108, May 2024, 103295
Mind the Gap Between Education Policy and Practice
Authors: Noam Angrst, Stefan Dercon
Nature Human Behaviour volume 8, pages 2261–2263, September 2024
The Seeds of Misallocation: Fertilizer use and Maize Varietal Misidentification in Ethiopia
Authors: Nils Bohr, Tim Deisemann, Douglas Gollin, Frédéric Kosmowski, Travis J. Lybbert
Journal of Development Economics
Volume 171, October 2024, 103349
The Political Economy of Economic Advice
Author: Stefan Dercon
Journal of African Economies, Volume 33, Issue Supplement_2, December 2024, Pages ii26–ii38
open access
Loss-of-Learning and the Post-Covid Recovery in Low-Income Countries
The macroeconomic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries, with a focus on the learning crisis.
Authors: Christopher Adam, Edward F. Buffie, Kangni Kpodar and Luis-Felipe Zanna
Journal of Macroeconomics
Volume 75, March 2023, 103492
Incentivising Demand for Supply-Constrained Care: Institutional Birth in India
Authors: Alison Andrew and Marcos Vera-Hernández
The Review of Economics and Statistics
Volume 106, January 2024, 101162
Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomised Trials in Five Countries
Building evidence across countries on improving education systems.
Authors: Noam Angrist, Micheal Ainomugisha, Sai Pramod Bathena, Peter Bergman, Colin Crossley, Claire Cullen, Thato Letsomo, Moitshepi Matsheng, Rene Marlon Panti, Shwetlena Sabarwal, and Tim Sullivan
National Bureau of Economic Research
WP31208, May 2023, 103386
Cash Transfers and Micro-Enterprise Performance: Theory and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Kenya
The impact of cash transfers on micro-enterprises in refugee settings.
Authors: Antonia Delius and Olivier Sterck
Journal of Development Economics
Volume 167, March 2024, 103232
O-Ring Production Networks
What are the conditions for the success of export promotion policies? This papers documents how skill-intensity and skill matching matters.
Authors: Banu Demir, Ana Cecília Fieler, Daniel Yi Xu, and Kelly Kaili Yang
Journal of Political Economy
Volume 132, November 2023, 101086
The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Long-Term Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia
Surprisingly strong impacts after five years of a simple role model intervention on poor households in Ethiopia.
Authors: Tanguy Bernard, Stefan Dercon, Kate Orkin, Giulio Schinaia, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
CEPR Discussion Paper
DP18492, September 2023
General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Do cash transfers have local inflation effects? Do they help to stimulate local economies? This paper shows that a cash transfer programme in Kenya added 15% to local GDP without inflation effects.
Authors: Dennis Egger, Johannes Haushofer, Edward Miguel, Paul Niehaus and Michael Walker
Econometrica, Open Access
Volume 90, November 2022, 103982
Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation: Evidence and Questions for African Development
A state of the art discussion of the state of the literature.
Author: Douglas Gollin
Oxford Development Studies
Volume 51, November 2023, 101080
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises
Information on campaign promises improves outcomes, but vote-buying is nevertheless more effective than information campaigns, explaining why candidates do not use them.
Authors: Cesi Cruz, Philip Keefer, Julien Labonne and Francesco Trebbi
The Economic Journal
January 2024, 101093
Village Social Structure and Labour Market Performance: Evidence from the Philippines
Authors: A. Stefano Caria and Julien Labonne
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume 219, March 2024, 101016
The New Economics of Industrial Policy
A state of the art review on industrial policy, based on rigorous evidence and not just wishful thinking.
Authors: Réka Juhász, Nathan J. Lane and Dani Rodrik
Annual Review of Economics
Forthcoming
Customised Cash Transfers: Financial Lives and Cash-Flow Preferences in Rural Kenya
Households in a Kenyan cash transfer programme prefer lumpier transfers, and many prefer delayed receipts.
Authors: Carolina Kansikas, Anandi Mani and Paul Niehaus
National Bureau of Economic Research
WP30930, February 2023, 103386
Role Models and Revealed Gender-Specific Costs of STEM in an Extended Roy Model of Major Choice
An improved estimation methodology applied to the non-pecuniary cost to women to enroll in science and related degrees.
Authors: Marc Henry, Romuald Méango and Ismaël Mourifié
Journal of Econometrics
Volume 238, January 2024, 105571
Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan
Hire-purchase asset programmes find large, significant, and persistent effects
Authors: Faisal Bari, Kashif Malik, Muhammad Meki and Simon Quinn
American Economic Review
Volume 114, February 2024, 101257
Gendered Disparities during the COVID-19 Crisis in Sierra Leone
A gendered approach to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.
Authors: Madison Levine, Niccolò F. Meriggi, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Vasudha Ramakrishna, Maarten Voors and Uday Wadehra
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
Volume 113, May 2023, 101257
Last Mile Delivery Increases Vaccine Uptake in Sierra Leone
Authors: Niccolò F. Meriggi, Maarten Voors, Madison Levine, Vasudha Ramakrishna, Desmond Maada Kangbai, Michael Rozelle, Ella Tyler, Sellu Kallon, Junisa Nabieu, Sarah Cundy and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Nature
Volume 627, March 2024, 101038
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills
Getting credible skill information to the right agents can improve outcomes in the labour market.
Authors: Eliana Carranza, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin and Neil Rankin
American Economic Review
Volume 112, November 2022, 101257
On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
A new framework for modelling projections of multidimensional poverty finds that 51 of 75 countries, including only about half the 37 African countries and all the Asian countries in the sample are on track to halve poverty incidence by 2030.
Authors: Sabina Alkire, Ricardo Nogales, Natalie Naïri Quinn and Nicolai Suppa
Journal of Development Economics
Volume 165, October 2023, 103150
The Economic Lives of Refugees
Authors: Alexander Betts, Maria Flinder Stierna, Naohiko Omata and Olivier Sterck
World Development
Volume 182, October 2024, 106693
Information and Bargaining through Agents: Experimental Evidence from Mexico's Labour Courts
Authors: Joyce Sadka, Enrique Seira and Christopher Woodruff
The Review of Economic Studies
Forthcoming, Open Access
The Labour Market and Poverty Impacts of COVID-19 in South Africa
Simulating impacts of COVID-19 in South Africa
Authors: Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, Rocco Zizzamia and Ronak Jain
South African Journal of Economics, Open Access
Volume 91, September 2023, 101111
