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Publication Highlights

Metacognitive Awareness and Academic Performance 

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings (forthcoming) 2025

What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students? 

Journal of Economic Perspectives 37 (3), 213-232 2023

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Retirement Outcomes:

Impacts of Outreach 

Review of Black Political Economy 52 (1), 87-108 2023

Cheap Talk and Coordination in the Lab and in the Field:

Collective Commercialization in Senegal 

Journal of Development Economics 154, 102751 2022

Bite Me! ABC's SharkTank as a Path to Entrepreneurship 

Small Business Economics 50 (3), 463-479 2018

To Remit, or Not to Remit: That is the Question. 

A Remittance Field Experiment 

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 112, 221-236 2015

Lost in the Mail:

A field Experiment on Crime 

Economic Inquiry 52 (1), 285-303 2014

Breaking the Norm: 

An Empirical Investigation into the Unraveling ofGood Behavior 

Journal of Development Economics 99 (1), 150-162 2012

A Field Experiment on the Impact of Weather Shocks and

Insurance on Risky Investment 

Experimental Economics 15 (2), 341-371 2012
 

Treating the Field as a Lab:

A Basic Guide to Conducting Economics Experiments for Policymaking 

Food Security in Practice Technical Guide

Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute

2012

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