Aletheia Donald
Publications
In It to Win It? Self-Esteem and Income-Earning among Couples (with Ioana Botea and Léa Rouanet) [PDF]. The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Measuring Women's Agency (with Jeannie Annan, Kathryn Falb, Markus Goldstein and Gayatri Koolwal) [PDF]. Feminist Economics.
Taking Power: Women’s empowerment and household Well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Jeannie Annan, Markus Goldstein, Paula Gonzalez Martinez and Gayatri Koolwal) [PDF]. World Development.
Assortative matching in Africa: Evidence from rural Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, and Malawi (with Claire Boxho, Markus Goldstein, Joao Montalvao, Léa Rouanet) [PDF]. Economics Letters.
Sharing Responsibility through Joint Decisionmaking and Implications for Intimate-Partner Violence: Evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African countries (with Cheryl Doss, Markus Goldstein and Sakshi Gupta) [PDF]. The Review of Economics of the Household.
Gender differences in agricultural productivity in Côte d'Ivoire: Distribution, drivers, and changes over time (with Gabriel Lawin and Léa Rouanet) [PDF] [Policy Brief]. The Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Family Structure and Childcare in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Sara Lowes and Julia Vaillant). Forthcoming, American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings.
Working Papers
The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply (with Eliana Carranza, Florian Grosset and Supreet Kaur) [PDF]. Revise and Resubmit, Econometrica.
Steered Away from the Fields: Short-Term Impacts of Oxen on Agricultural Production and Intra-Household Labor Supply (with Andrew Brudevold-Newman and Léa Rouanet) [PDF].
Experimental Evidence on Rural Childcare Provision (with Sara Lowes and Julia Vaillant) [PDF].
Complementarities in Labor Supply (with Florian Grosset) [PDF].
The Fertility Impacts of Development Programs (with Tricia Koroknay-Palicz, Markus Goldstein and Mathilde Sage) [PDF].
Lost in Interpretation: Why Spouses Disagree on Who Makes Decisions (with Forest Jarvis, Hillary Johnson, Sundas Liaqat and Elizaveta Perova) [PDF].
Gender Bias in SME Lending: Experimental Evidence from Turkey (with Salman Alibhai, Markus Goldstein, Alper Ahmet Oguz, Alexander Pankov, Francesco Strobbe) [PDF].
Two Heads are Better than One: Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire (with Markus Goldstein and Léa Rouanet) [PDF] [Policy Brief] [VoxDev coverage].
Explaining Gender Differences in Economic Outcomes in Burkina Faso (with TM Tonmoy Islam and Anja Robakowski) [PDF].
Policy Briefs and Reports
Working Under Pressure: Improving Labor Productivity through Financial Innovation (with Eliana Carranza, Florian Grosset and Supreet Kaur) [PDF].
What’s Mine is Yours: Pilot Evidence from a Randomized Impact Evaluation on Property Rights and Women’s Empowerment in Côte d’Ivoire (with Markus Goldstein, Alexandra Hartman, Eliana La Ferrara, Michael O'Sullivan and Mercedes Stickler) [PDF].
Time and money: a study of labor constraints for female cotton producers in Côte d’Ivoire (with Eliana Carranza, Rachel Jones and Léa Rouanet) [PDF].
Caring about Carework: Lifting constraints to the productivity of women farmers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (with Julia Vaillant, Francisco Campos and Maria Emilia Cucagna) [PDF].
The Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicators : Developing a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures (with Markus Goldstein) [PDF].
Economic Impacts of Gender Inequality in Niger [PDF].
Women's Economic Empowerment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo : Obstacles and Opportunities [PDF].
Sustaining High, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Post COVID-19 : A World Bank Group Input to the Côte d’Ivoire 2030 Development Strategy [PDF].
Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment in Payment Projects: A Short Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures [PDF].
Selected Work in Progress
The gender gap in financing and third-order inference: Experimental Evidence from Turkey (with Solène Delecourt)
Last Thoughts: What Causes Measurement Bias in Subjective-Wellbeing? (with Thomas Bossuroy and Julia Vaillant)
What's Mine is Yours: Determinants of Husbands Ceding Power (with Markus Goldstein, Alexandra Hartman, Eliana La Ferrara, and Michael O'Sullivan)
Other
My time-series analysis of the psychological booms and busts of a research assistant career can be found here.