I work on machine learning and digital data, applied in developing economies.
Machine Learning
Revision requested (second round), Review of Economic Studies. Presented at ACM EAAMO (2021)
Revision requested, American Economic Review. Video (30m) | How do you say algorithm in Kiswahili?
NeurIPS Workshop on Generative AI for Education (2023)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2020)
Workshop paper presented at NeurIPS Joint Workshop on AI for Social Good (2019). Best Paper Award
Workshop paper presented at NeurIPS Joint Workshop on AI for Social Good (2019). Best Paper Award
IMF Finance & Development (2023) Issue on AI
Network Industries
Review of Economic Studies (2019) Slides | Supplemental Appendix
RAND Journal of Economics (2022) Slides | Supplemental Appendix
Journal of Development Economics (2022)
Harvard Business Review (2021), website
Digital Credit
World Bank Economic Review (2020) Original Proposal (posted 2010)
Media (2015): NPR Morning Edition, The World Bank (syndicated to World Economic Forum), New Scientist, Radio New Zealand
Media (2015): NPR Morning Edition, The World Bank (syndicated to World Economic Forum), New Scientist, Radio New Zealand
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings (2018)
Revise and resubmit, Economic Development and Cultural Change. Pre-Analysis Plan
Big Data for Development
ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) (2021) Blog Post
International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) (2020)
In Progress
Public and Private Transit: Evidence from Lagos
Efficiency of Informal Transit Networks
Welfare-Sensitive Machine Learning
Other Papers
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