Research

Working Papers

Data Science for Justice: Evidence from a Randomized Judicial Reform in the Kenyan Judiciary (with M. Chemin, D. Chen, V. Di Maro, P. Kimalu, and M. Mokaya) – R&R at Journal of Development Economics

Bureaucratic Training and State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Peru’s Judiciary (with D. Chen, B. Silveira) – R&R at Journal of Public Economics

Information Frictions and Court Performance: Experimental Evidence from Chile (with P. Carrillo, D. Chen, B. Silveira) – R&R at Journal of Law, Economics and Organization

Building Courts: Effects on Access to Justice and Economic Development (with M. Chemin, D. Chen, P. Kimalu) – R&R at Journal of Political Economy: Micro

The Cognitive Underpinnings of Judicial Bias: The Role of Social Identity and Prospect Theory (with D. Chen, J. Graham, and S. Singh) – R&R at International Review of Law and Economics

Prejudice in practice: Evidence from the Kenyan judiciary (with D. Chen, J. Graham, and S. Singh) – R&R at Journal of Law and Empirical Analysis

SMaRT: Online Reusable Resource Assignment and an Application to Mediation in the Kenyan Judiciary (with M. Shafkat Farabi, Didac Marti-Pinto, Wei Lu, Sanmay Das, Antoine Deeb, and Anja Sautmann)

Algorithmic Assignment of  Mediators to Court Cases: Optimizing Performance under Complex Capacity Constraints in Public Service Delivery (with S. Das, A. Deeb, S. Farabi, W. Lu, D. Marti-Pinto, and A. Sautmann)

Publications

Justice, Growth, and Governance: Causal Evidence on How Courts Shape Economic Outcomes and Conflict (with D. Chen), Journal of Economic Surveys

The Data Revolution in Justice (with D. Chen), World Development

The Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lens of Google Searches (with R. Marty, N. Khan, A. Reichert), Nature Scientific Reports