News
Pre-results review of microcredit RCT accepted by the Journal of Development Economics
Together with Bruno Crépon, Florencia Devoto and William Parienté, I am working on a randomized controlled trial in rural Morocco to test whether matching loan repayments closely with expected entrepreneurial cash flows increases the take-up and poverty impact of...
Professor of Finance at KU Leuven
Excited to announce that as of this month I will be joining the finance research group at KU Leuven as a part-time Professor of Finance!
New working paper!
New CEPR working paper, joint work with Cevat G. Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, Mathias Dolls and Lisa Windsteiger: Reducing sexual-orientation discrimination: Experimental evidence from basic information treatments. Available here
Interested in a PhD on “Financing the Green Transition in Developing Countries”?
Are you interested in how developing countries can mitigate climate change and move to a low-carbon economy? Apply to do a PhD in Economics with Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway) and me on "Financing the Green Transition in Developing Countries". More information here.
International Men’s Day?
This week many are marking International Men’s Day (IMD, November 19), an initiative to raise awareness about men’s well-being. To be honest, I used to regard IMD with a dose of scepticism. Does the world really need a male equivalent to International...