Research

Working Papers

Matching With The Right Attitude: The Effect Of Matching Firms With Refugee Workers – with Mariajose Silva-Vargas (featured: IPA blog post, VoxDev).

Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda – with Emanuele Colonnelli, Edwin Muhumuza and Edoardo Teso (featured: Chicago Booth Review). Also NBER Working Paper 32170.

Work in Progress

Contact in the Workplace and Social Cohesion: Experimental Evidence from Uganda – with Mariajose Silva-Vargas. Analysis stage: draft soon available.

Inside the Production Function: the Effect of Financial Contracts on Growing Firms’ Technology Use. Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Uganda  – with Selim Gulesci, Andreas Madestam, and Miri Stryjan. Analysis stage: draft soon available.

Economic Success Through Salvation? Experimental Evidence from the Evangelical Movement – with Andreas Madestam and Jakob Svensson. Analysis stage: draft soon available.

Innovation Zones, Technological Upgrading, and Firm Productivity – with Cevat Aksoy, Ralph De Haas, and Muhammed Hasan Yilmaz. Analysis stage: draft soon available.

Field work in progress

Fair Trade, Unfair Competition: The Effect of Reducing Sales Uncertainty on Farmers’ Welfare (with Claude Raisaro). Pilot stage.

Non-refereed publications

SMEs and Workers During Crises: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic in Uganda, AEA Papers and Proceedings 115: 345–50 – with Selim Gulesci, Andreas Madestam, and Miri Styjan

Articles in the media

We Need More Respectful and Inclusive Experiments in Development Economics: A Proposal (ProMarket.org) – with Mariajose Silva Vargas and Apollo Tumusiime

My interview with local newspaper (Gazzetta del Sud, in Italian)

Policy reports

Improving Access to Labour Markets for Refugees (IGC Policy Report)

Artisanal Jade Mining in Myanmar (IGC Policy Report)