Research Interests and Work in Progress
Primary research areas
Migration and remittances
My broad research
interests are centered around the role of remittances in the development of poor households and countries. More specific questions of
interest include: What influence do remittances have on
their recipients? What incentives govern migrants' sending of remittances? What is the relationship between remittances and
economic shocks? What light do existing models of
the household and of international trade and finance shed on these questions?
Work
in progress
- The role of remittances in Indonesia during the 1997-8 crisis
- Remittances and intra-household gender
bias (abstract of working paper)
- Migrants' responses to
home country shocks (with Arup Sen and Jeremy Blair Smith) (description)
International finance and trade
Work in progress
Other areas of interest
Networks
Corporate governance and board networks (description)
Political economy
- Political advertising and the role of information in electoral
outcomes and voter welfare (description)
Energy economics
Economics of health care
