I run field experiments on governance and public goods — and build the measurement tools that help funders and social-sector teams act on evidence. Research on one side, practice on the other; this site is the bridge.
Governance, public goods and beliefs — Sierra Leone, Zambia, Colombia.
How do you get high-integrity, representative citizens to stand for local office? We evaluate an intervention designed with government and civil-society partners ahead of Sierra Leone's 2023 local council elections.
When chiefs mobilize labor for public goods, who actually pays? Randomized selection methods measure whether citizens take costly action to avoid the call — and whether the burden lands on the poor.
This paper investigates the relative efficiency of traditional leaders when informally taxing citizens in low-income states and whether this comes at the expense of relatively poor households.
Zambia massively scaled its Constituency Development Fund to decentralize public infrastructure spending. We work with government partners on how the fund's design shapes what communities actually get.
Most new businesses in Colombia fail. Do entrepreneurs enter because they misjudge their odds? We separate the roles of ambiguity preferences, confidence, and optimism.
When chiefs mobilize labor for public goods, who actually pays? Randomized selection methods measure whether citizens take costly action to avoid the call — and whether the burden lands on the poor.
This paper investigates the relative efficiency of traditional leaders when informally taxing citizens in low-income states and whether this comes at the expense of relatively poor households.
How do you get high-integrity, representative citizens to stand for local office? We evaluate an intervention designed with government and civil-society partners ahead of Sierra Leone's 2023 local council elections.
Zambia massively scaled its Constituency Development Fund to decentralize public infrastructure spending. We work with government partners on how the fund's design shapes what communities actually get.
Most new businesses in Colombia fail. Do entrepreneurs enter because they misjudge their odds? We separate the roles of ambiguity preferences, confidence, and optimism.
How impact measurement works in the field — and the tools I build doing it.
Impact measurement as it actually happens: real cases from portfolio work, and essays on evaluation that gets used rather than performed.
Every investment in one live view: what each project proposed, what it has produced, and what that means for the next decision.