Research

Publications

1. Winter weather on exam dates and matriculation for a prestigious university in Japan, Economics Letters 237 (2024): 111631 [GitHub repo for replication]

2. Informal Contracts in an Incomplete Market: The Price of Milk in Paraguay
   with Laura Schechter and Guanming Shi, Economic Development and Cultural Change 74.1 (2025): 1-36

3. Affording expensive ceremonies: Evidence from quinceañeras in Mexico, Journal of Development Economics 174 (2025): 103448 [World Bank blog article]

Working papers

1. Temperature, effort, and achievement
   with Ana Paula Melo

2. Temperature and the work of bureaucrats
   with Ana Paula Melo

3. Revisit a correlated random coefficient model in technology adoption, submitted [GitHub repo for replication]