Publications

“Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experimentwith Gharad Bryan and Dean Karlan, (October 2023) conditionally accepted at the American Economic Review

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“Is It Who You Are or What You Get? Comparing the Impacts of Loans and Grants for Microenterprise Development
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming, with Bruno Crepon and Mohamed El Komi

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Exporting and firm performance: Evidence from a randomized experiment.” 

The Quarterly Journal of Economics2017, (132.2) ,551-615 
with David Atkin and Amit Khandelwal, (Editor’s Choice) 

 

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Coverage:
Forbes, Council of Economic Advisors, Bloomberg, Trade Talks Podcast

 

Microfinance’s Transformational Potential: Looking Beyond Average Treatment Effects
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, forthcoming, with Ronald Cueva and Jamin Speer

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“Discrimination Against Women in Hiring
with Jamin Speer and Andrew Weaver, conditionally accepted at Economic Development and Cultural Change

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“What Do Jobseekers Want? Comparing Methods to Estimate Reservation Wages and the Value of Job Attributes”
Journal of Development Economics, 2022, (159) with Brian Feld and Abdelrahman Nagy
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Connections, Referrals, and Hiring Outcomes: Evidence from an Egyptian Establishment Survey
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, (204), 342-355, with Jamin Speer and Andrew Weaver

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The Dangers of the Double-Bottom Line: A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both TargetsJournal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2019, with Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

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“Training and Subsidies vs. Pay for Results in Spurring Digital
Marketing Take-up and Small Firm Growth”

Journal of Development Economics, 2021, (Registered Report) with David McKenzie and Aminur Rahman

 

“Increasing Financial Inclusion in the Muslim World: Evidence from an Islamic Finance Marketing Experiment”
The World Bank Economic Review, 2021, (35.2), 376-397

with Dean Karlan and Nour Shammout

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Measuring Productivity: Lessons from Tailored Surveys and Productivity Benchmarking.”
AEA: Papers and Proceedings, 2019, (109), 444-449
with David Atkin and Amit Khandelwal

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Follow the money not the cash: Comparing methods for identifying consumption and investment responses to a liquidity shock 
Journal of Development Economics, 2016, (121), 11-23
with Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

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Bank-Insured RoSCA for Microfinance:
Experimental Evidence in Poor Egyptian Villages

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014,S56-73 
with Mahmoud El-Gamal, Mohamed El-Komi and Dean Karlan

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Working Papers

“The Demand for Mobility: Evidence from an Experiment with Uber Riderswith Peter Christensen, (May 2023) revise and resubmit at Journal of Political Economy

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“Overcoming Youth Unemployment in Egypt: Randomized Evaluations Showcase the Promise of Active Labor Market Programs” with Ahmed El-Sayed and Kevin Hempel (October 2018)

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“Occupational Choice under Credit and Information Constraints” (Dormant, January 2014)

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Works in Progress

“Intensifying vs. Targeting Support: Evidence from a Job Training Experiment” with Bruno Crépon, Noha Fadlalmawla and Reham Rizk

“Improving Labor Market Outcomes with Job Fairs” with Bruno Crépon and Mona Said

“Supply vs. Demand in E-Commerce” with Aidan Coville and Caio Piza

“Expanding Access to Finance through Micro-Equity” with Kareem Haggag