Papers

An Education Inequity Index

with M.E. Perpétuo and P. Soares

In preparation

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An Education Inequity Index

with M.E. Perpétuo and P. Soares

One of the leading reasons behind social inequities is that elite groups have had access to more widespread and higher-quality educational o...

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The Lasting Impacts of Remote Learning in the Absence of Remedial Policies: Evidence from Brazil

with C. A. Doria

Submitted

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The Lasting Impacts of Remote Learning in the Absence of Remedial Policies: Evidence from Brazil

with C. A. Doria

The transition to remote learning in the context of COVID-19 led to dramatic setbacks in education. To what extent has the return to in-pers...

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The Early Childhood Development Replication Crisis, and How Wearable Technologies Could Help Overcome It

with O. Leal-Neto et al.

Submitted

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The Early Childhood Development Replication Crisis, and How Wearable Technologies Could Help Overcome It

with O. Leal-Neto et al.

Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs are currently understood as critical for children’s cognitive and socioemotional development, esp...

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Parent-Bias

with J. Thibaud

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Parent-Bias

with J. Thibaud

How do parents plan to and effectively share resources with their children over time? In a lab-in-the-field experiment in Malawi, we show th...

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Measuring Child Labor: the Who’s, the Where’s, the When’s, and the Why’s

with S. Wolf

Submitted

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Measuring Child Labor: the Who’s, the Where’s, the When’s, and the Why’s

with S. Wolf

Measuring child labor accurately is a major challenge. While parents’ and children’s reports tend to differ dramatically, there is typically...

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Talks

School Closures and Reopening in the Pandemic

The educational and health impacts of school closures and reopening in the pandemic, taking advantage of two natural experiments in São Paulo State. Project in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank and the São Paulo State Education Secretariat.

Harming to Signal

Parents in Malawi are compelled to marry off their under-age daughters in villages where child marriage is prevalent out of social image concerns. Alternative signals of social preferences can disrupt that signaling equilibrium and affect child marriage, teenage pregnancies and school dropouts.

Information vs. Salience

Informational interventions often have enormous impacts on decision-making. Is it because those interventions make beliefs more accurate with respect to the ground truth, or because they reallocate attention towards the dimension they target -- perhaps even leading subjects to acquire decision-relevant information themselves?

Cognitive Droughts

Financial worries brought about by the threat of a drought capture poor farmers' attention, memory and impulse control in the Brazilian Northeast.