Research

An exploratory investigation into the factors related to EdTech use among Kenyan girls

Published · British Journal of Educational Technology (2023)
Skills & Learning
Development

What shapes whether Kenyan girls take up and use educational technology.
Paper (open access)

with Joe Watson, Winnie Mughogho & Mark Millrine

Learning Through Living Room Screens: The Impact of an Educational TV Show on Kenyan Children’s Learning and Attitudes

Forthcoming · Journal of Development Economics (conditionally accepted via pre-results review)
Skills & Learning
Behavioral Economics
Field Experiments
Development

A free-to-air literacy TV show in Kenya raised children’s curiosity and, more tentatively, reading comprehension.
SSRN

with Laura Barasa, Nicolas Bottan, Anushka Ghosh & Mark Millrine

Global Automation Atlas

Working paper
AI & Labor Markets
Development

A task-based, country-specific atlas of automation exposure across 124 countries, separating labour substitution from augmentation.
Project site

with Prashant Garg & Tommaso Crosta

From Pilots to Prompts: Validating LLM In-Silico Policy Impact Predictions Against Statistical Baselines in Low-Resource Contexts

Working paper
Prediction & Simulation
Behavioral Economics

Benchmarking large language models against statistical baselines as predictors of human survey-experiment responses.

with Jose-Ramon Enriquez & Sharif Kazemi

Mechanisms of Reading Comprehension: Curiosity, Executive Function, and Cross-Linguistic Transfer in Educational Media

Working paper
Skills & Learning
Behavioral Economics

How curiosity, executive function, and cross-linguistic transfer drive learning from educational media.
SSRN

with Anushka Ghosh

Novel forms of impact prediction: the future of combining Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling with NLP-regressors

Working paper
Prediction & Simulation

Combining Bayesian hierarchical modelling with NLP regressors to predict the impact of policies and interventions.

with G. Martinelli

Predicting Causal Effects from Natural Language Queries using Structured Representations

Working paper
Prediction & Simulation
Development

A benchmark and structured-representation method for forecasting causal effect sizes directly from natural-language questions.
arXiv

with Giuliano Martinelli, Piriyakorn Piriyatamwong, Abelardo Carlos Martinez Lorenzo, Riccardo Orlando, Satvik Garg, Sharif Kazemi, Linxi Wang, Arianna Legovini & Samuel Fraiberger

Complementarities between AI- and Human Career Guidance in Kenyan Youth: Information, Recommendation, and Persuasion

Work in progress · collecting baseline data (Kenya)
AI & Labor Markets
Behavioral Economics
Field Experiments
Development

An RCT in Kenya testing whether AI can extend career guidance, and whether it works by informing or persuading jobseekers.

AI-facilitated Skills Elicitation, Skills-based Job Matching, and Personalized Labor Market Information in South Africa

Work in progress · pilot data collection (South Africa)
AI & Labor Markets
Skills & Learning
Development

AI-facilitated skills elicitation and job matching with personalized labour-market information in South Africa.

Causal evidence on income satiation points of happiness and well-being in Kenya

Work in progress
Behavioral Economics
Well-being
Development

Causal evidence on whether the well-being returns to income level off in Kenya.

with Johannes Haushofer

The Neuroscience and Social Science of Agency: An interdisciplinary perspective on the effects of cash transfers on controllability

Proposal stage
Behavioral Economics
Well-being
Development

An interdisciplinary look at how cash transfers affect people’s sense of control and agency.

with Pranav Sankhe
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