Research

Publications

• Disentangling person-dependent and item-dependent causal effects: Applications of item response theory to the estimation of treatment effect heterogeneity with Joshua Gilbert, Luke Miratrix, and Ben Domingue, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2024 Working paper

Working Papers

• Hard to read: The impact of advanced reading assignments on language and literacy outcomes in Nigeria (with Guthrie Gray-Lobe, Michael Kremer, Joost de Laat, and Wendy Wong) Available upon request

• Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Item-Level Outcome Data: Insights from Item Response Theory (with Joshua Gilbert, Zachary Himmelsbach, James Soland, and Benjamin Domingue) Working paper

In Progress

• Evaluating the effectiveness of a digital empowerment curriculum for college students in India (with Jalnidh Kaur and Lena Song) Conditionally accepted at the Journal of Development Economics based on pre-results review

• Active learning and STEM student achievement: Re-examining evidence in light of novel, large-scale natural experiments (with Prashant Loyalka, Saurabh Khanna, and Paul Glewwe)

• Peers, targeted instruction and class size: Experimental evidence from Kenya and Liberia (with Guthrie Gray-Lobe and Michael Kremer)

Resting Papers

• Estimating the effect of peers on non-cognitive skills of adolescents using friendship networks