international conferences organized
Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab (joint with David McKenzie)
How has COVID-19 affected the intention to migrate via the backway to Europe and to a neighboring African country? Survey evidence and a salience experiment in The Gambia (joint with Tijan Bah, Flore Gubert and David McKenzie)
Closing the Gender Profit Gap (joint with Sandra Sequeira and Pedro C. Vicente)
Aspirations, Expectations, Identities: Behavioral Constraints of Micro-Entrepreneurs (joint with Julia Seither)
Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a field experiment (joint with Pedro C. Vicente)
Why do People Migrate Irregularly? Evidence from a Lab in the Field Experiment in West Africa (joint with Tijan Bah)
Keep It Simple: A field experiment on information sharing among strangers (joint with Marcel Fafchamps and Pedro C. Vicente)
Information Gaps and Irregular Migration (joint with Tijan Bah, Flore Gubert and David McKenzie) Registered report accepted at the Journal of Development Economics
Integrating Immigrants as a Tool for Broad Development: Experimental Evidence for Portugal and Cape Verde (joint with Jules Gazeaud and Julia Seither)
Mentoring for Success of Immigrant College Students (joint with Pedro Freitas and Ana B Reis)
Raising Educational Aspirations (joint with Pedro Freitas, Ana B Reis, Wayne Sandholtz and Jose Tavares)
Grade Shaming or Healthy Competition? How Public Relative Performance Feedback Affects Students’ Achievements (joint with Julia Seither and Alex Coutts)
Mobile Money, VoxDevLit, 2(1), February 2021 (joint with Tavneet Suri, Jenny Aker, Michael Callen, Tarek Ghani, William Jack, Leora Klapper, Emma Riley, Simone Schaner, and Sandip Sukhtankar )
Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa, American Economic Association P&P, May 2020, 594–598 (joint with Pedro C. Vicente)
Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers, World Development, May 2020, 129, 104905 (joint with Pedro C. Vicente)
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)
Migrant Networks and Migrant Intentions to Return (joint with Francesco Cestari)
Assessing the Role of Social Networks on Migrant Labor Market Outcomes (joint with Ana Isabel Costa)
Introducing Mobile Money in Rural Mozambique: Evidence from a Field Experiment (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