Research

Research Agenda

I study how policies and institutions shape worker welfare, firm behavior, and the distribution of economic opportunity. Across projects, I combine applied microeconomic questions with quantitative methods that strengthen causal inference and improve evidence aggregation.

Working Papers

Union Delegates Incentives and Firm-level Outcomes

with Francesco Armillei | Working paper

We study how electoral accountability for workplace union representatives affects firm-level employment outcomes after a 2008 reform in France tied union legitimacy to vote shares and approval thresholds. The project examines labor earnings, hours worked, bargaining content, and within-firm inequality.

Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of 50 Randomized Evaluations in 26 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

with Dean Karlan, Finley Ong, Julius Ruschenpohler, and Christopher Udry | Working paper

Using Bayesian meta-analysis, this project aggregates evidence from 115 studies of 72 unconditional cash transfer programs and evaluates how impacts vary across policy-relevant mechanisms and contexts.

Paper Ideas for India VoxDev

Talks / Press

Selected external coverage of the cash transfer meta-analysis includes Ideas for India and VoxDev.