{"id":20,"date":"2014-08-27T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T22:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sg5\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2025-09-02T20:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:26:44","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sg5\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>ECONOMICS PUBLICATIONS<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/aer.20231286#:~:text=Migrant%20exposure%20to%20more%20liberalized,to%20this%20change%20in%20behavior.\">Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility<\/a>, (with Caroline Theoharides). Forthcoming in the\u00a0<em>American Economic Review.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S030438782500152X\">Agricultural Support Services in Malawi: Direct Effects, Complementarities and Time Dynamics<\/a>, (with Kate Ambler and Alan de Brauw). Forthcoming in the<em> Journal of Development Economics.<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Working Paper version (2018): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifpri.org\/publication\/agriculture-support-services-malawi-direct-effects-complementarities-and-time-dynamics\">IFPRI Discussion Paper #01725<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/massp.ifpri.info\/2014\/09\/19\/learning-from-brazil-adapting-fomento-for-malawi\/\">MaSSP Blog<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> (Sept 2014). <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ifpri.org\/blog\/poverty-reduction-smallholder-farmers-brazilian-style-can-it-work-africa\">IFPRI Research Blog<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> (April 2015). <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/massp.ifpri.info\/2018\/03\/19\/agriculture-support-services-direct-effects-complementarities-and-time-dynamics\/\">MaSSP Blog<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> (March 2018).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Previously circulated as: \u201cRelaxing Constraints for Family Farmers: Providing Capital and Information in Malawi\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/erae\/article\/51\/4\/1129\/7879404\">Can survey design reduce anchoring bias in recall data: Evidence from Malaw<\/a>i, (with Manuel Hernandez and Cynthia Paz). European Review of Agricultural Economics, Volume 51, Issue 4, September 2024, Pages 1129\u20131167.\n<ul>\n<li>Working Paper version: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifpri.org\/publication\/can-survey-design-reduce-anchoring-bias-recall-data-evidence-malawi\">IFPRI Discussion Paper 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0304387822001031\">Locking Crops to Unlock Investment: Experimental Evidence on Warrantage in Burkina Faso<\/a>. (with C. Delavallade).<em> Journal of Development Economics, <\/em>January 2023<em>, vol. 160.<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/voxdev.org\/topic\/finance\/warrantage-model-rural-finance-boosts-farmers-income-and-investment\">VoxDev<\/a>, 24-07-02<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10986\/38268\">Africa Gender Policy Brief<\/a>, 22-09-30<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poverty-action.org\/study\/impact-inventory-credit-food-security-and-rural-livelihoods-burkina-faso\">Project Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ssa.foodsecurityportal.org\/regional-sub-portal-blog-entry\/sub-saharan-africa\/1379\/main-story\">IFPRI Food Security Portal Blog<\/a> (January 2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0167268121002080\">Follow the leader? A field experiment on the mechanism underlying social influence<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">. (with K. Ambler and M. Recalde). <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. <\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">August 2021, pp. 1280-1297.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0167268121001396\">Earned and unearned income: Experimental evidence on expenditures and labor supply in Malawi.<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> (with K. Ambler). <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, <\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">July 2021, pp. 33-44.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifpri.org%2Fpublication%2Fwork-requirements-expenditures-and-labor-supply-decisions-evidence-malawi&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNEn9ZBY2G5UEI33O8QAz78BgSaEAg\">IFPRI project note<\/a> (December 2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/wber\/article\/34\/3\/597\/5610319\">Cash Transfers and Crop Production in Senegal<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">World Bank Economic Review, <\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">vol. 34(3) October (2020): pp. 597-617<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">. (with Kate Ambler and Alan de Brauw.<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Working Paper version (2017)<em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">: <\/em><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifpri.org\/publication\/cash-transfers-and-management-advice-agriculture-evidence-senegal\">IFPRI Discussion Paper #01659<\/a><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ifpri.org\/blog\/sharing-results-project-increase-farmers%E2%80%99-production-senegal\">IFPRI Research Blog<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> (April 2017).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifpri.org\/blog\/adapting-and-implementing-fomento-africa-learning-through-partners-workshop\">IFPRI Research Blog<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> (February 2016).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipc-undp.org\/pub\/eng\/OP325_Adapting_Fomento_to_countries_in_Sub_Saharan_Africa.pdf\">International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth (IPC \u2013 IG) One Pager<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> (July 2016).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/ebrary.ifpri.org\/utils\/getfile\/collection\/p15738coll2\/id\/131134\/filename\/131345.pdf\">IFPRI Project Note (in English)<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">. <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/ebrary.ifpri.org\/utils\/getfile\/collection\/p15738coll2\/id\/131136\/filename\/131347.pdf\">In French<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">. (April 2017).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jhr.uwpress.org\/content\/55\/1\/194\">Employment Risk and Job-Seeker Performance<\/a>, <em>Journal of Human Resources, <\/em>Winter 2020, vol. 55(1): pp. 194-239.\n<ul>\n<li>Working Paper Version: <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/p\/wil\/wileco\/2016-10.html\">IFPRI Discussion Paper #01332<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/full\/10.1086\/700635\">Employment Exposure: Employment and Wage Effects in urban Malawi<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">,<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, <\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">vol. 68(2): pp. 471-506.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Working Paper version: <a href=\"https:\/\/econpapers.repec.org\/paper\/wilwileco\/2016-09.htm\">Dept of Economics Working Papers, Williams College, 2016-09<\/a>. Preprint version available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/toc\/edcc\/0\/ja?mobileUi=0\">https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/toc\/edcc\/0\/ja?mobileUi=0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ajae\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/ajae\/aax080\/4713917\">Anchoring bias in recall data: Evidence from\u00a0Central America<\/a>, <em>American Journal of Agricultural Economics, <\/em>2018, vol. 100(2): 479 \u2013 501. (with Michael Murphy and Manuel Hernandez).\n<ul>\n<li>Working Paper version: <a href=\"http:\/\/ebrary.ifpri.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/p15738coll2\/id\/130339\">IFPRI Discussion Paper #01534<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifpri.org\/blog\/do-you-remember-measuring-anchoring-bias-recall-data\">IFPRI Research Blog<\/a><em> (March 2018).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1467-8489.12237\/full\">Measuring postharvest losses at the farm level in Malawi<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">,<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> Australian Journal of Agriculture and Resource Economics, <\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">2018, vol. 62(1):139 \u2013 160<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">.<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> (with Kate Ambler and Alan de Brauw).<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Won best AJARE paper award in 2018. Working Paper version: <a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifpri.org\/publication\/measuring-postharvest-losses-farm-level-malawi\">IFPRI DP #01632<\/a><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1162\/REST_a_00516?journalCode=rest\">Responding to Risk: Circumcision, Information and HIV Prevention<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Review of Economics and Statistics<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, 2016, vol. 98(2):333-349. (with Alister Munthali and Rebecca Thornton).<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Working Paper version: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibread.org\/bread\/working\/313\">Bread Working Paper No. 313<\/a> (September 2011).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.povertyactionlab.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/responding-to-risk.pdf\">JPAL Policy brief<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0304387815001029\">Does a ban on informal health providers save lives? Evidence from Malawi<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Journal of Development Economics<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, 2016, vol. 118(1):112-132. (with Edward Okeke).<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Working Paper version: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjxit-QzdPXAhVG_WMKHScpBWkQFggmMAA&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rand.org%2Fpubs%2Fworking_papers%2FWR1073-1.html&amp;usg=AOvVaw1GSzQxMf2y9nL4CEp5xzxJ\">RAND Corporation Working Paper WR-1073<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0167268114001991\">Doing Wrong to do Right? Social Preferences and Dishonest Behavior<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, 2014, vol. 106 (Oct): 124-139. (with Edward Okeke).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/app.6.2.152\">The Demand for Medical Male Circumcision<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">American Economic Journal: Applied Economics<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, 2014, vol. 6(2). (with Jobiba Chinkhumba, and Rebecca Thornton).<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Working Paper version: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibread.org\/bread\/working\/335\">Bread Working Paper No. 335<\/a> (April 2012)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.povertyactionlab.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/responding-to-risk.pdf\">JPAL Policy brief<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.3ieimpact.org\/en\/publications\/3ie-impact-evaluation-reports\/3ie-impact-evaluations\/3ie-impact-evaluation-report-13\/\">3ie Impact Evaluation Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poverty-action.org\/blog\/challenge-demand-male-circumcision-hiv-prevention\">IPA Blog<\/a> (December 2015)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.3ieimpact.org\/demand-creation-for-voluntary-medical-male-circumcision-how-can-we-influence-emotional-choices\/\">3ie Evidence Matters Blog<\/a> (December 2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/aer.103.3.439\">Learning from Others\u2019 HIV Testing: Updating Beliefs and Responding to Risk<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, 2013, vol. 103(3): 439-444.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3212403\/\">Peer effects in learning HIV results<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Journal of Development Economics<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, 2012, vol. 97(1): 118-129. (with Rebecca Thornton).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S092753710900089X\">Social Networks, Employment and Worker Discouragement: Evidence from South Africa<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Labor Economics<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, 2010, vol.17: 336 \u2013 344. (with Justine Burns and Malcolm Keswell).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1813-6982.2005.00010.x\/abstract\">The Impact of Health on Poverty: Evidence from the South African Integrated Family Survey<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">South African Journal of Economics<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, 2005, vol. 73(1). (with Malcolm Keswell).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>PUBLIC HEALTH\/ INTERDISCIPLINARY PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/27283093\">Medical Male Circumcision: How does price affect the risk-profile of take-up<\/a>?,<em> Preventive Medicine, 2016, Nov; 92:68-73. (with Rebecca Thornton).<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25681262\">Geospatial Analysis of Condom Availability and Accessibility in Urban Malawi<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">International Journal of STD and AIDS<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, 2016, Jan vol. 27(1):44-50. (with E. Schacham, J. Gilliland, R. Murphy, and R. Thornton)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25155700\">What do people actually learn from public Health Campaigns? Incorrect inferences about male circumcision and Female HIV Infection Risk Among Men and Women in Malawi<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">. <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Aids and Behavior<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, 2015, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">vol. 19(7):1170-1177<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">. (with B. Maughan-Brown, A. Venkataramani, and R. Thornton.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Working Paper version: <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/p\/ldr\/wpaper\/104.html\">SALDRU Working Paper No. 104<\/a>, 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/beriresearch2.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/23\/common-misconceptions-around-male-circumcision-and-hiv-transmission\/\">Behavioral Economics in Reproductive Health Initiative Blog<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> (September 2014).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/24162614\">Perceptions of Male Circumcision among Married Couples in Rural Malawi<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Journal of the International Association of Providers of Aids Care<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, 2015, Sept vol. 13(5):443-9. (with E. Schacham and R. Thornton).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>WORKING PAPERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Poverty and Parental Discipline,<em style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> (with Mo Alloush and Emily Conover). Current version: April 2025. <\/em><\/li>\n<li>Rural Labor Market Responses to Large Lumpy Cash Transfers: Evidence from Malawi, (with K. Ambler and A. de Brauw). (Current Draft: December 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Lump-sum Transfers for Agriculture and Household Decision Making, (with K. Ambler and A. de Brauw). (Current Draft: January 2019)<\/li>\n<li>Information Asymmetries and Remittance Recipient Income: A Field Experiment in Malawi, (with Kate Ambler). IFPRI Working Paper. Current version January 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>SELECTED WORKS IN PROGRESS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Fertility and farmwork (with Caroline Theoharides)<\/li>\n<li>Small Mechanisation Impact Stimuli in Ethiopia (with Mesay Gebresilasse and Moti Jaleta)<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The value of value chains: An Experiment linking Farmers\u2019 Cooperatives with a Maize Processor in Rwanda, (with Shilpa Aggarwal, Jon Robinson, and Alan Spearot), <em>fieldwork ongoing<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMICS PUBLICATIONS Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility, (with Caroline Theoharides). Forthcoming in the\u00a0American Economic Review. Agricultural Support Services in Malawi: Direct Effects, Complementarities and Time Dynamics, (with Kate Ambler and Alan de Brauw). Forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics. Working Paper version (2018): IFPRI Discussion Paper #01725. 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