Jeffrey A. Flory Assistant Professor of Economics

Ongoing Projects

World Bank Argentina Solar Home System and Tariff Impact Evaluation

Large randomized field experiment evaluating a $250 million World Bank project in rural electrification via off-grid green energy solutions (solar home systems). This multi-year experiment is designed to identify impacts as well as the mechanisms driving effects, improve the efficiency of pricing/subsidy structures, and assess different approaches to enhancing the benefits of access to electricity and green energy solutions in poor rural areas of the developing world.

Principal Investigator

Experiments in Workplace Diversity: Closing Gender and Race Gaps

Together with a small group of experimental economists, we are working with major firms in the financial and technology sectors, using field experiments to design and test new ways to raise the presence of underrepresented populations at all levels within the companies.

Project Lead

Publications (Peer-Reviewed)

“Do Competitive Work Places Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job-Entry Decisions,” (with Andreas Leibbrandt and John List), 2015. Review of Economic Studies 82(1): 122-155.

Under Review

“Formal Finance and Informal Safety Nets of the Poor: Evidence from a Savings Field Experiment.” Previous version: “Micro-Savings and Informal Insurance in Villages: How Does Financial Deepening Affect Safety Nets of the Very Poor?”Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics Working Paper No. 2011-008.

“Gender, Age, and Competition: the Disappearing Gap” (with Uri Gneezy, Kenneth Leonard, and John List), 2015.

Working Papers

“Determinants of Financial Deepening: A Field Experiment in Adoption of Formal Savings”, Claremont McKenna College, 2015.

“Philanthropy in the Village: Experimental Evidence on the Value of Small Gifts”, Claremont McKenna College, 2015.

“Formal Savings Spillovers on Microenterprise Growth and Production Decisions Among Non-Savers”, draft paper, University of Chicago, June 2012.

“Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters: Competitiveness and Matrilineal Culture,” (with Kenneth Leonard, Magda Tsaneva, and Kathryn Vasilaky), Claremont McKenna College, 2015.

“Misbehaving on the Job: A Natural Field Experiment,” (with Andreas Leibbrandt, and John List), Claremont McKenna College, 2015.

Other Publications

“Measuring Spillover Impacts of Formal Savings in Rural Malawi: Effects on the most Vulnerable Non-Users”, October 2011. Prepared for the Financial Services Assessment Project, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the IRIS Center.

“The Poor and their Management of Shocks” (with Geetha Nagarajan), December 2009. Prepared for the Financial Services Assessment Project, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the IRIS Center.

“Rural Income Generating Activities and Household Income Strategies in Uganda: Analysis of the REPEAT  Surveys” (with Kenneth Leonard), July 2008. Prepared for the World Bank Sustainable Development Department.