I write and help others write about a lot of fascinating topics, from globalization to social sustainability, human agency to debt crises, vaccine manufacturing to RCTs to South Sudan, North Korea, and beyond.

Below are some of my recent writing & editing projects.

Writing

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)

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

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

You can find me on Google Scholar here.

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)

• 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

• 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

Gender & development

• Gender & economic growth: Rohini Pande & Penny Goldberg

• Care economy & feminist economics: Nancy Folbre

• Gender & development in Brazil & India: Girija Borker & Ieda Matavelli

Behavioral economics & social development

• Social factors in development: Eliana La Ferrara

• Social psychology – “wise interventions”: Greg Walton

• Experimental economics: Maria Kogelnik & Alejandro Martinez-Marquina

• The marginalized mind: Anandi Mani

• Learning, decision making, & bias: Mira Frick

Agency, psychology, & 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

Books

• Edited Industrial Policy for Developmentby Ana Margarida Fernandes and Tristan Reed (World Bank)

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

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

• Writing and editorial support for forthcoming World Bank flagships on governance & private sector development and climate change & FCV.

Reports

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

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

• Edited Public Institutions: Critical Enablers for Addressing Climate Change (World Bank)

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

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

• Edited Commercial Development in Indigenous Peoples’ Territories (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 The global cost of gender inequality in labor market opportunities (VoxDev)

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

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

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

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

• Edited 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 briefs & summaries, profiles, annual reports, 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 with proceeds from their book What Is the What.

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

• Wordless collective: A years-long side project with friends to find great music without lyrics to listen to while working.

• While working in publishing, I helped edit and contributed to a bunch of wonderful books, magazines, and other publications. My writing was featured in the nonfiction oral-history book Out of Exile(Voice of Witness), the McSweeney’s Quarterly, the short story anthology Stumbling & Raging(MacAdam/Cage), and The Believermagazine.