Working Papers

• Firstborn Daughters and Family Structure in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Garance Genicot) VoxDev;  NBER Working Paper;  CEPR Working Paper

• This is a Man's World: Crime and Intra-Household Resource Allocation  HICN Working Paper. Blogs/Press: Development Impact Blog, Nada es Gratis, Policy Dialogue, Foco Economico. Awards:  III Premio Nada es Gratis to Job Market Papers in Economics , 2021 Georgetown Razin Prize

• Measuring Agency Through Psychological Constructs in  Lower-Income Settings (with Clare Clingain and Aletheia Donald)  

Selected Work in Progress

• Online tutoring for students from vulnerable backgrounds (with Lucas Gortazar, Claudia Hupkau, Teresa Molina-Millan, Antonio Roldan-Mones)

• Personalized Social Services and Socioeconomic Inclusion: Experimental Evidence from Spain (with María Calle García and Teresa Molina-Millan)

• Unaccompanied migrant youth: design and complementarities between labor, mental health, and community interventions (with Teresa Molina-Millan) JPAL grant

• Boosting Youth Entrepreneurship with Grants, Human Capital Support, and Behavioral Insights  (with Yanina Domenella,  Julian Jamison, Abla Safir, and Bilal Zia)

• The Effects of Boosting Youth Entrepreneurship on Marital Outcomes and Intimate Partner Violence (with Yanina Domenella,  Julian Jamison, and Abla Safir) IPA IPV Grant 

Publications

• Persistent yet Ameliorable Shocks to Female Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from Kenya  (with Francisco Campos,  Julian Jamison, Abla Safir, and Bilal Zia)  ( Journal of Development Economics 177, October 2025)  Pre-print Policy brief

• Women's Land Rights and Village Institutions in Tanzania (with Garance Genicot) (World Development, 153, May 2022) Pre-print; Policy Brief ; VILART Survey

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

• Displaced Livelihoods Initiative exploratory grant, JPAL,  2024

• Juan de la Cierva-formación, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, 2022

• IPV Competitive Fund, Innovations for Poverty Actions, 2022 

• Women's work, Entrepreneurship, and Skilling (WWES) Iniative, Innovations for Poverty Actions, 2021 

• Razin Prize, Georgetown University Economics Department, 2021

• Premio Nada es Gratis to Job Market Papers in Economics, 2021 

• Maloof Fellowship, Georgetown University, 2020