Work in Progress
2011
"Do Interest Rates Matter? Credit Demand in the Dhaka Slums" (with Heather Montgomery and Jonathan Morduch).
- Forthcoming Journal of Development Economics, Volume 97, Issue 2, March 2012, pp. 437-449.
- Download the paper in pdf format.
"Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?" (with Alma Cohen).
- Forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics.
- National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13700 (December 2007).
- An updated manuscript (March 2011).
- An article in The New York Times Freaknomics Blog.
2009
"Work and Marriage: Child Labor, Marriage Matches, and Bride Prices in Rural Tanzania" (with Roberta Gatti and Kathleen Beegle).
Preliminary manuscript.
2007
"The Long-Run Consequences of Child Labor: Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Tanzania" (with Kathleen Beegle, Roberta Gatti, and Sofya Krutikova). Preliminary manuscript. 2003
"Labor Regulation and the (In)efficient (Re)allocation of Resources: Using Energy Shocks to Measure Growth Opportunities" (with Raymond Fisman). Download the paper: pdf format.