international conferences organized
Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab (joint with David McKenzie), in progress, email me to receive a preliminary draft
Reference Points and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Aspirations, Goal Setting, and Business Skills (joint with Julia Seither), in progress, email me to receive a preliminary draft
Mobile Money, Business Training and Microenterprise Development in Mozambique (joint with Sandra Sequeira and Pedro C. Vicente), in progress, email me to receive a preliminary draft
Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment (joint with Pedro C. Vicente), in progress
Understanding the Willingness to Migrate Illegally: Evidence from a Lab in the Field Experiment (joint with Tijan Bah), NOVAFRICA Working Paper No. 1803.
Keep It Simple: A field experiment on information sharing in social networks (joint with Marcel Fafchamps and Pedro C. Vicente), NOVAFRICA Working Paper No. 1801.
Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers (joint with Pedro C. Vicente), NOVAFRICA Working Paper No. 1705.
Migrant Networks and Migrant Intentions to Return (joint with Francesco Cestari), NOVAFRICA Working Paper No. 1602.
Assessing the Role of Social Networks on Migrant Labor Market Outcomes (joint with Ana Isabel Costa), NOVAFRICA Working Paper No. 1601.
Introducing Mobile Money in Rural Mozambique: Evidence from a Field Experiment (joint with Pedro C. Vicente), NOVAFRICA Working Paper No. 1301
Integrating Immigrants as a Tool for Broad Development: Experimental Evidence for Portugal and Cape Verde (joint with Sónia Dias)
Information Gaps and Irregular Migration (joint with Tijan Bah, Flore Gubert and David McKenzie)
Raising Educational Aspirations (joint with Jose Tavares)
Grade Shaming or Healthy Competition? How Public Relative Performance Feedback Affects Students’ Achievements (joint with Julia Seither and Alex Coutts)
Farmer participatory experimentation in Mozambique (joint with Gharad Bryan and Dean Karlan)
How Effective is Unemployment Training in Recession Times? Evidence from a Randomized Impact Evaluation
Do Migrant Social Networks Shape Political Attitudes and Behavior at Home?, World Development, May 2019, 117: 328-343. (joint with Julia Seither and Pedro C. Vicente)
Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment (including Online Appendix), World Bank Economic Review, February 2018, 32 (1): 203–219. (joint with Gaia Narciso)
Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship (including Online Appendix), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, October 2017, 79: 797–821. (joint with Tara McIndoe-Calder and Pedro C. Vicente)
Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance?, Oxford Economic Papers, January 2016, 68 (1): 108-130. (joint with Janis Umblijs)
Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, October 2015, 118: 2-21. Lead Article. (joint with Dan Silverman and Dean Yang)
International Specialization and the Return to Capital, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), July 2015, 15 (2): 467–508. (joint with Jacques Potin)
Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World, Economics Letters, February 2014, 122(2): 276-284. (joint with Jacques Potin)
Migration, Risk Attitudes and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey, IZA Journal of Migration, September 2014, 3:17. (joint with Janis Umblijs)
Testing the “Brain Gain” Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde, Journal of Development Economics, January 2012, 97(1): 32-45. (joint with Aitor Lacuesta and Pedro C. Vicente)
see reference in The Economist here
Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment, World Bank Economic Review, May 2011, 25 (1): 77-104. (joint with Pedro C. Vicente)
Why Doesn't Labor Flow from Poor to Rich Countries? Micro Evidence from the European Integration Experience, Oxford Economics Department Working Paper No. 402
Joining the EU: Capital Flows, Migration and Wages, Oxford Economics Department Working Paper No. 342
Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Micro Evidence from an African Success Story (joint with Aitor Lacuesta and Pedro C. Vicente), IZA Discussion Paper No. 3035
Can the Fund's Medium-Term Growth Projections Be Improved?, IMF Working Paper No. 04/203 (joint with Juan Zalduendo)
international conferences organized
2019 novafrica conference on economic development in africa - conference webpage here
2016 novafrica conference on economic development in africa - conference webpage here
2012 novafrica conference on economic development in africa - conference webpage here
tempo conference on international migration - conference webpage here