Talks & Media
Selected lectures, writing for general audiences, and conversations about her research.
Lectures
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Labour and Migration: Nobel Symposium in Economic Sciences
Invited talk at the Nobel Symposium “Micro-development research in the last 20 years: What have we learned?”, on why labor supply looks so different in poor countries.
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The Psychology of Poverty
How financial strain and scarcity shape attention, productivity and decisions for people living in poverty.
Paper explainers
Narrated video walkthroughs of her papers, about ten to fifteen minutes each, with captions.
- Retrieval Failures and Consumption Smoothing: A Field Experiment on Seasonal Poverty
- Social Norms as a Determinant of Aggregate Labor Supply
- The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply
- Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital
- Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?
- Labor Rationing
- Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets
- The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
- Self-Control at Work
- Labor Markets in Developing Countries
- Habit Formation in Labor Supply
- The Limits of Neighborly Exchange
Writing
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How to Build Kids’ Cognitive Endurance in an Age of Distraction
The ability to run “mental marathons” is a skill children can learn through simple but dedicated practice.
Podcasts and Video
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Why Labour Markets Look Different in Low-Income Countries
Rationed jobs, volatile casual work and wage employment only 20–50% of the time: what it means to enter the labor market in a low-income country, and what policy can do for young jobseekers.
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The Effects of Pay Inequality
When coworkers are paid differently for the same work, output and attendance fall, unless the differences are clearly justified.
Policy
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Government of Punjab Scales a Novel Drug Prevention Program
A film-based curriculum developed and tested with the Government of Punjab and J-PAL South Asia, now reaching more than 750,000 students in 3,600 government schools.