Publications

Onur Altındağ, Stephen D. O'Connell, Rim Achour (2025). Geographic poverty targeting in social protection programs: Evidence from a nationwide policy experiment. Working paper.

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Jackson Schneider, Stephen D. O'Connell (2025). Gender differences in the adequacy of poverty-targeted food assistance programs. World Development.

Ryan Brown, Hani Mansour, Stephen D. O'Connell, James Reeves (2025). Gender Differences in Political Career Progression. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

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Christopher F. Karpowitz, Stephen D. O'Connell, Jessica Preece, Olga Stoddard (2024). Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women's Influence in Teams. Journal of Political Economy.

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Onur Altındağ, Stephen D. O'Connell (2023). The short-lived effects of unconditional cash transfers to refugees. Journal of Development Economics.

Ryan Brown, Hani Mansour, Stephen D. O'Connell (2022). Does local female political representation empower women to run for higher office? Evidence from state and national legislatures in India. World Bank Economic Review.

Josh McCrain, Stephen D. O'Connell (2022). Experience, institutions, and candidate emergence: The political career returns to state legislative service. Political Science Research and Methods.

Onur Altındağ, Stephen D. O'Connell, Aytuğ Şaşmaz, Zeynep Balcıoğlu, Paola Cadoni, Matilda Jerneck, Aimee Kunze Foong (2021). Targeting humanitarian aid using administrative data: model design and validation. Journal of Development Economics.

Stephen D. O'Connell, Lucas Ferreira Mation (2020). Tell us what you need: Matching public job training to local skill demand with employers' input. Working paper.

Kevin Croke, Andualem Telaye Mengistu, Stephen D. O'Connell, Kibrom Tafere (2020). The impact of a health facility construction campaign on health service utilisation and outcomes: analysis of spatially linked survey and facility location data in Ethiopia. British Medical Journal Global Health.

Stephen D. O'Connell (2020). Can quotas increase the supply of candidates for higher-level positions? Evidence from local government in India. Review of Economics and Statistics.

Anandi Mani, Stephen D. O'Connell (2019). Can political empowerment increase economic participation? Reservations, public works, and female labor force participation in India. In progress.

Stephen D. O'Connell (2018). Political Inclusion and Educational Investment: Estimates from a national policy experiment in India. Journal of Development Economics.

T. Joyce, D. Remler, D. Jaeger, Onur Altındağ, Stephen D. O'Connell, S. Crockett (2017). On Measuring and Reducing Selection Bias with a Quasi‐Doubly Randomized Preference Trial. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Hunt Allcott, Allan Collard-Wexler, Stephen D. O'Connell (2016). How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India. American Economic Review.

T. Joyce, D. Jaeger, Onur Altındağ, Stephen D. O'Connell, S. Crockett (2015). Does Classroom Time Matter?. Economics of Education Review.

Klaus Desmet, Ejaz Ghani, Stephen D. O'Connell, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (2015). The Spatial Development of India. Journal of Regional Science.

Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, Stephen D. O'Connell (2014). Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India. Journal of Development Economics.

Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, Stephen D. O'Connell (2013). Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India. Journal of Economic Geography.

Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, Stephen D. O'Connell (2013). Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India. Regional Studies (special issue).