Main publications

Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment?
Accepted @ Journal of Development Economics (2025)

with P. Carneiro, F. Tagliati and Y. Xia  |  Coverage: VoxDev

Religious Proximity and Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from a Mobile Phone-Based Campaign in India
Journal of Health Economics (2024)

with B. Augsburg, A. Bancalari and K. Kameshwara  |  Data and Replication  |  Coverage: Ideas for India, IGC

Measuring Corruption in the Field Using Behavioral Games
Journal of Public Economics (2023)

with A. Coutts, P. Vicente and I. Vilela  |  Data and Replication

Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
American Economic Review (2020)

with A. Coutts, P. Vicente and I. Vilela  |  Coverage: World Bank, El Pais, GlobalDev, AEA, Expresso

The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization
American Economic Review (2020)

with P. Atwell and J.F. Gomes |  Coverage: AEA, El Pais, RES, World Bank

The Effect of Gender-Targeted Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
The Economic Journal (2020)

with O. Attanasio, P. Carneiro and V. Lechene  |  Coverage: Diario Exterior

Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
The Economic Journal (2018)

with I. Almås, O. Attanasio and P. Carneiro  |  Coverage: VoxEU, RES, Apolitical, World Bank

Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea
Labour Economics (2017)

with P. Carneiro, A. Locatelli, S. Mihreteab and J. Keating

Other publications

Let's Call! Using the Phone to Increase Vaccine Acceptance
Health Economics (2024)

with M. Fracchia and P. Vicente  |  Coverage: IGC

COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Nature Medicine (2021)

with J.S. Solís Arce et al.  |  Coverage: Nature

Demand Drops and Innovation Investments: Evidence from the Great Recession in Spain
Research Policy (2018)

with P. Mendi

Working papers

Media Narratives and the Rise of Civil Rights

with P. Atwell, J.F. Gomes, G. Musillo and Y. Schenk  |  Other versions: CEPR 18207

From Sea to Shore: The Impact of Ocean Acidification on Child Health
Conditionally accepted @ Journal of the European Economic Association

with I. Kim Taveras  |  Other versions: CEPR 15680 – NOVAFRICA 2006  |  Coverage: Planeta Futuro – Expresso – World Bank – VoxEU

Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities

with B. Augsburg, A. Bancalari and M. Ghatak  |  Other versions: CEPR 18636 – IFS WP22/16  |  Coverage: El Pais – The Times of India - Hindustan Times – VoxEU – VoxDev

Windows of Peace: the Effect of Ceasefires on Economic Recovery

with M. Marending, G. Vysotskaya  |  Other versions: WIDER WP 2023/35

On the Political Economy of Urbanization: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique

with F. Mendonça, W.A. Sandholtz and P. Vicente

Population-Control Policies and Fertility: Evidence from a Mass Media Campaign

with M. Richard and Y. Schenk

Expectation Formation and Educational Investment: Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

with P. Carneiro, M. Mendel, A. Toppeta