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

Meyer, World Development Journal

English Medium Instruction in Multilingual Contexts: Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia

Author: Jennifer Opare-Kumi

International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 105, March 2024, 102987

Journal of Educational Development

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

Journal of Rural Studies paper

Mind the Gap Between Education Policy and Practice

Authors: Noam Angrst, Stefan Dercon

Nature Human Behaviour volume 8, pages 2261–2263, September 2024

Angist, Dercon, Nature paper

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

Gollin, Journal of Development Economics

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

Journal of African Economies

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

Journal of Macroeconomics paper

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

Review of Economics and Statistics

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

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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

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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

Journal of Political Economy paper

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

CEPR discussion paper

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

Econometrica paper

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

Oxford Development Studies paper

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

Economic Journal paper

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

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizat

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

Lane's NBER working paper

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

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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

Journal of Econometrics paper

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

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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

AEA Papers and Proceedings paper

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