Research
Ala Archa National Park, Kyrgyzstan
Research interests
Applied microeconometrics, policy evaluation, health, labour, migration, natural disasters
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Working papers
School-age exposure to conditional cash transfers and adult mental health (with Philipp Hessel)
Updated version of Escuela de Gobierno Alberto Lleras Camargo Working Paper No. 84
Panic? Probing Angst over Immigration and Crime (with Sergio Parra-Cely)
Updated version of DEM Discussion Paper No. 2021-04
Conditional cash transfers and youth mental health (with Mauricio Avendano, Yadira Diaz and Philipp Hessel)
Female mayors and child health (with Philipp Hessel)
Retargeting of anti-poverty and intimate partner violence (with Sergio Parra-Cely)
Work in progress
Restoring citizen trust? Evidence from an information intervention (with Micheline Goedhuys, Eleonora Nillesen and Ann-Kristin Reitmann)
Pre-analysis plan registered at the Open Science Framework
Measuring social norms towards women and work in Tunisia: An assessment of the 'opinion-matching' method (with Micheline Goedhuys, Eleonora Nillesen and Ann-Kristin Reitmann)
Pre-analysis plan registered at the Open Science Framework
The dark side of chocolate
Extreme weather events and vector-based diseases
Lunatics (with Luisito Bertinelli, Bephyer Parey, Nekeisha Spencer, and Eric Strobl)
Commissioned reports
Evaluation d'impact du Programme de Réhabilitation et d'Intégration des Quartiers d'Habitation (PRIQH 2) en Tunisie - Rapport de la collecte de la première vague de données (données baseline) (2023) (with Micheline Goedhuys and Eleonora Nillesen)
IDB Technical Note No. IDB-TN-2617
Evaluability study of the ‘Lake Kivu Inland Water Transport Project’ (DRIVEproject DR20RW01A) (2020) (with Micheline Goedhuys and Nico van der Windt)
Evaluation d'impact du Programme de Réhabilitation et d'Intégration des Quartiers d'Habitation (PRIQH 2) enTunisie – Protocole d’évaluation (2020) (with Micheline Goedhuys, Samy Kallel, and Eleonora Nillesen)
Patterns of migration in the European Union (2019) (with Veronika Fajth, Katrin Marchand, Melissa Siegel, and Zachary Strain
2019 H2020 REMINDER Working Paper and associated publicly available data set of existing databases on migration in the European Union
Permanent working papers
Social distancing and crime (with Sergio Parra-Cely)
Updated version of DEM Discussion Paper No. 2020-23
Does internal displacement affect educational outcomes in host communities? (with Sergio Parra-Cely)
CREA Discussion Paper No. 2020-05
Return migration and the quality of entrepreneurship (with Tilman Brück and Wim Naudé)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11332
Husbands’ return migration and wives’ occupational choices