A5016461384- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Media Influence and Politics
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Princeton University
2021-2023
National Bureau of Economic Research
2023
John F. Kennedy University
2023
Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
2021-2023
Stockholm University
2023
Harvard University Press
2022-2023
Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries, partly due to limitations of official statistics in environments with large informal sectors subsistence agriculture. We assemble from over 30,000 respondents 16 original household surveys nine countries Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone), Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines),...
We study the effects of an unconditional cash transfer program on social preferences children. The allocated $1,076 to randomly selected households in rural Kenya. measure 4,022 children from 1,687 with survey questions and incentivized behavioral games three years after intervention. distinguish between direct recipient spillover neighboring households. do not find consistent evidence that treatment groups are more or less prosocial than control group. Additionally, we no persistent...