Working papers

Who You Know, Who You Recommend: Referrals and Occupational Gender Segregation
(with P. Ferreira) [New draft!]

Hitting Rock Bottom: Economic Hardship and Cheating
(with M. Bauer, J. Chytilová and E. Miguel) [New draft!]
— Coverage: [HBS Working Knowledge]

Firm Responses to Aggregate Shocks and Implications for Workers: Lessons from the Pandemic
(with V. Bassi, I. Rasul and E. Spadini) [New draft!]
— Coverage of an earlier version: [HBS Working Knowledge]

Meet Your Future: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Effects of Mentors
(with M. Namubiru and S. Spaziani) Journal of Political Economy, revise and resubmit
— Coverage: [World Bank Blog] [VoxDev][J-Pal] [HBS Working Knowledge]
— Awarded the Etta Chiuri Prize by the Italian Society of Public Economics
— Conditionally accepted via pre-results review at the Journal of Development Economics

Indirect Experience
(with G. Dossi and T. Monk)

Returns to the Duration of Vocational Training
(with V. Bassi, I. Rasul, and E. Spadini) [Coming soon!]

Publications

Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya 
(with M. Bauer, J. Chytilová and E. Miguel) Journal of Development Economics, (2024) 167: 103215
— Coverage: [IZA Opinions]

Gender Gaps: Back and Here to Stay? Evidence from Skilled Ugandan Workers during COVID-19
(with M. Namubiru and S. Spaziani) Review of Economics of the Household, (2024) [Final draft]
— Coverage: [IGC blog post] 

Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda
(with O. Bandiera, V. Bassi, R. Burgess, I. Rasul, M. Sulaiman and A. Vitali) Econometrica, (2020) [Final draft]
— Coverage: [J-PAL] [Microeconomic Insights column]

Selected work in progress

Empowering Women through Safety at Work: An Experiment with SMEs in Urban India
(with L. Beaman, A. Sharma and K. Sharma) - Endline rollout
— Conditionally accepted via pre-results review at the Journal of Development Economics

Perceived Value, Perceived Harm: Economic Incentives and Bystander Intervention in Workplace Harassment (with L. Beaman, M. Saxena, A. Sharma and K. Sharma)

Conversational Tone in an AI Job-Search Advisor: Effects on Engagement and Job-Search Actions
(with A. Goldenberg and Y. Liu)