I’ve written or helped write about a lot of fascinating topics, from globalization to social sustainability, human agency to sovereign debt, vaccine manufacturing to South Sudan & North Korea, and beyond.

Publications

Books

• The Unequal Effects of Globalization by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg (MIT Press)

• Social Sustainability in Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century with Patrick Barron, Louise Cord, José Cuesta, Sabina Espinoza, & Michael Woolcock (World Bank)

Academic

• Market design to accelerate Covid-19 vaccine supply with Susan Athey, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, Alex Tabarrok, & others (Science)

• Social sustainability and the development process with Patrick Barron, Louise Cord, José Cuesta, Sabina Espinoza, & Michael Woolcock (Oxford Development Studies)

• South Sudan’s capability trap with Lant Pritchett & Peter Biar Ajak (Harvard Kennedy School)

• South Sudan: The road from Paris to Juba, 2005-11 (UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research) 

Reports

• Covid-19 & external debt in Africa with Raymond Gilpin (UN Development Program)

• Purchasing Covid-19 vaccines at risk with AcceleratingHT (Inter-American Development Bank)

• Report to Congress on evaluation at the MDBs with the Office of International Affairs (US Treasury Department)

Essays & articles

• Traveling in the North Country (Lucky Peach), finalist for James Beard Journalism Award

• Planting seeds for public policy (Harvard Growth Lab)

• Global development in the ‘60s: Dudley Seers (Yale Economic Growth Center)

• Needles in the haystack: Unlocking entrepreneurship in Africa (Harvard Kennedy School Review)

• How marriage choices affect gender gaps & inequality (Yale News)

• Gender inequality & economic growth (Yale EGC)

Briefs, blogs, & op-eds

• Social sustainability: a critical gap in the global development agenda with co-authors (World Bank blog)

• G7, the World Bank, & vaccine equity with Amanda Glassman (Center for Global Development)

• Middle-income trap: Myth or reality? with Norman Loayza & Michael Woolcock (World Bank)

• Military families, infertility, & national security (American Society for Reproductive Medicine)

• Why countries should purchase Covid-19 vaccines at risk with AcceleratingHT (Inter-American Development Bank)

• Yale economists & India’s Covid-19 response (Yale News)

• Female employment & mobile internet access (Yale EGC)

Interviews & profiles

Development economics

• Evidence, RCTs, & technology: Dean Karlan

• Gender & economic growth: Rohini Pande & Penny Goldberg

• Structural transformation & agricultural productivity in Africa: Chris Udry

• Market size, inequality, & poverty reduction: Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

• Transition economics: Beata Javorcik

• Inequality in Latin America: José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez & Mayara Felix

Behavioral economics & social development

• Social factors in development: Eliana La Ferrara

• Care economy & feminist economics: Nancy Folbre

• Social psychology – “wise interventions”: Greg Walton

• The marginalized mind: Anandi Mani

• Learning, decision making, & bias: Mira Frick

Agency in development

• Livelihoods, agency, & hope: Naila Kabeer

• A theory of agency: Kaushik Basu

• Scaling mental health care: Gary Belkin

• Lessons in agency: Agency-based training in South & Southeast Asia

• The psychology of personal agency: Anita Shankar

Global trade

• Supply chains & trade disruptions: Ana Cecília Fieler & Guillermo Noguera

• Trade & development: Lauren Falcao Bergquist & Amit Khandelwal

• Networks effects on trade & firm growth: Yale EGC

• Global trade at the firm level: Ana Cecília Fieler

Other interviews & profiles

• Early childhood development: Amer Hasan & Costas Meghir

• Economic history – big business, anti-trust, & capitalism: Naomi Lamoreaux

• Economics & machine learning: Philipp Strack

• Spatial economics: Costas Arkolakis

Editing & writing support

Books

• Writing & editorial support for World Bank books and flagship reports focused on governance and social sustainability & inclusion.

• Edited manuscript of Mission Driven Bureaucrats by Dan Honig (Oxford University Press)

• Developed initial manuscript for Building State Capability by Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett, & Michael Woolcock (Oxford University Press)

Reports

• Writing & editorial support for World Bank reports on various topics and regions (e.g., public institutions, private sector development, climate change, sustainability, indigenous peoples)

• Edited Mainstreaming Personal Agency in Global Development (SEE Change at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

• Edited & contributed to Moving up: Promoting economic mobility through network analysis (Brookings)

• Edited Bridging the Gap: Inequality & Jobs in Thailand (World Bank)

• Edited No Data, No Story: Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines (World Bank)

• Edited Giant in the shadows: Subprime corporate debt (Americans for Financial Reform)

Academic

• Edited Globalization in crisis: Confronting a new economic reality (WIDER Annual Lecture)

• Edited Understanding Early Childhood Development & Its Importance (NBER Reporter)

• Edited Aggregate implications of barriers to female entrepreneurship (VoxEU)

• Edited Innovations in measurement & evaluation of human behavior (CEDIL)

• Helped edit Why is growth in developing countries so hard to measure? (Journal of Economic Perspectives)

• Helped edit Market size and spatial growth: Evidence from Germany (Econometrica)

• Helped edit Economics & measurement: New measures to model decision making (Presidential address to the Econometric Society)

Other editing & consulting

• Edited How to get industrial policy right – and wrong (Financial Times)

• Edit & manage The Agency Fund’s blog series

• Edit & write for Yale’s Economic Growth Center & Inclusion Economics, including research summaries, economist profiles, and interviews

• Edit & contribute to nonprofit strategy documents (e.g., dZi Foundation)

Other projects

• VAD Foundation: first employee, 2007-2011; board member since 2016. Helped establish grassroots nonprofit that runs education and community development programs in South Sudan, founded by Valentino Achak Deng & author Dave Eggers using proceeds from their best-selling book What Is the What.

• Sad Stuff on the Street (Ammo Books): charity humor book with Sloane Crosley designed by Todd Oldham, featuring photographs and short essays by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Amy Sedaris, Salman Rushdie, Miranda July, Michael Chabon, Ben Gibbard, Jesse Eisenberg, and hundreds of contributors from around the world; 100% of proceeds go to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

• While working in publishing, I helped edit and contributed to books, magazines, and other publications, including Surviving Justice and Out of Exile (Voice of Witness), McSweeney’s #26 (McSweeney’s), Stumbling & Raging (MacAdam/Cage), and The Believer.