Research

Publications

Critical thinking and misinformation vulnerability: Experimental evidence from Colombia (with John A List, Lina M Ramirez, Jaime Unda, Beatriz H Vallejo) PNAS nexus, vol. 3, 2024.

Citizens from 13 countries share similar preferences for COVID-19 vaccine allocation priorities (with Raymond Duch, Laurence SJ Roope, Mara Violato, Matias Fuentes Becerra, Thomas S Robinson, Jean-Francois Bonnefon, Jorge Friedman, Peter John Loewen, Pavan Mamidi, Alessia Melegaro, and others) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, 2021.

Do migrant social networks shape political attitudes and behavior at home? (with Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente) World Development, vol. 117, 2019, pp. 328–343.

Working Papers

From Destination to Origin: Experimental Evidence on the International Spillovers of Migrant Integration (with Catia Batista, Lara Bohnet, Jules Gazeaud) – 2026

The Hidden Costs of Visible Support: A Field Experiment on Coaching and Women’s Economic Empowerment (with Maria Sofia Casabianca, Megan Lang) – 2026

Scaling Skills (with Maria Sofia Casabianca, Megan Lang) – 2024

Keeping Up with the Joneses: Economic Impacts of Overconfidence in Micro-Entrepreneurs  – 2022

(Selected) Work in Progress

Aspirations as Constraints on Entrepreneurship (with Catia Batista)

Constraints to Women’s Microenterprise Growth (with Megan Lang)

Reputation Effects in Education Outcomes (with Catia Batista, Alexander Coutts)

Other Publications

International Migration and Social Network Spillovers of Political Norms (with Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente) in Brites Pereira L., Mata M.E., Rocha de Sousa M., Economic Globalization and Governance, Springer, 2021.

International Migration and the Transfer of Political Norms: Examples from Cape Verde and Mozambique (with Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente) in L. Chauvet, F. Gubert, T. Jaulin, S. Mesplé-Somps, Migrants: Agents of Political Change in Africa?, DeBoecke, 2018.