This paper estimates the impact of access to mobile money services on local economic activity. The analysis combines data from the early expansion of the mobile agent network in Kenya with a local-level measure of economic performance proxied by the intensity of nighttime lights. Leveraging the...

We consider the problem of valuing inputs in a production environment in which input supply is uncertain. Inputs can be workers in a firm, risk factors for a disease, securities in a financial market, or nodes in a networked economy. Each input takes its values from a finite set, and uncertainty...

We study the Shapley wage function, a wage scheme in which a worker's pay depends both on the number of hours worked and on the output of the firm. We then provide a way to measure the distance of an arbitrary wage scheme to this function in limited datasets. In particular, for a fixed...

The right to hold dual citizenship is an important political institution that is being adopted by an increasing number of countries. We argue that this right can generate important social and economic benefits beyond its political dimension. Dual citizenship recognition by a country allows...

Public policy addressing the harmful practice of adolescent marriage tends to leave out men, as prospective grooms. Using micro-level data from Nigeria in combination with plausible instrumental variables, we find that a male's education significantly decreases the likelihood that he marries an...

We develop an axiomatic foundation for the classical problem of paying workers in settings where their actions are not observed by the employer. The latter only observes the distribution of ability and demands fairness. First, we uniquely characterize workers’ expected pay thanks to a set of...

What pay can a worker expect when he is unsure about his ability (or effort supply) and that of his co-workers? Workers have varying (unobserved) abilities, but can observe their distributions in the population. We uncover four findings. First, we uniquely characterize workers' expected pay in a...