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Empowering Adolescent Girls in Uganda
• Replicated the BRAC ELA cluster-RCT (150 communities; 100 treatment / 50 control; three-wave panel of 5,966 adolescent girls), estimating Intent-to-Treat effects via OLS ANCOVA with baseline-covariate and branch fixed-effect controls • Constructed z-scored empowerment indices; ran balance checks (two-sample t-tests, standardised mean differences), flagging 5 of 15 imbalanced baseline covariates; produced a discrepancy report against the published estimates • Bounded attrition with Lee bounds, clustered SEs at village level, trimmed the top 1% of expenditure outliers; extended with a Treatment × StillGoing interaction for heterogeneous treatment effects, deriving conditional effects analytically • Built a reproducible R Markdown pipeline with reusable functions automating variable construction, regression output, and tables; added cost-effectiveness comparisons against the Jóvenes programmes and unconditional cash transfers
Next Word Lab Product Pitch
Five-slide product pitch for the Next Word Lab predictive text Shiny application.
Desire and Distribution: Trajectories of Disparities in Two Finnic Nations
Assembled post-war disposable-income series (Finland 1966–2024; Estonia 1990–2024) and Gini trajectories from OECD, WID, and UNU-WIDER (WIID) • Diagnosed inclusive vs. top-heavy growth through mean–median divergence; traced Finland’s U-shaped Gini and Estonia’s post-transition spike to institutional drivers (progressive taxation, Nokia skill premium, privatisation, flat-tax reform) • Reconciled Soviet-era data-suppression gaps in the Estonian series
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Non-tariff barriers and WTO dispute settlement: EC–Hormones (DS26)
• Analysed a 35-year (1980–2015) panel of US beef exports via difference-in-differences and event-study OLS, controlling for EU GDP, US beef production, and the US–EU exchange rate • Specified event dummies for the 1989 ban, 1998 ruling, and 2009 settlement; found the ruling insignificant (p = 0.42) while the settlement raised export value by ≈88%, quantifying the “compliance gap”, with a 44% contraction in EU specialty imports under retaliation • Integrated multi-source trade data (USDA FAS, UN COMTRADE, Eurostat Comext, USITC, World Bank WDI); linked results to Bagwell & Staiger and Ederington & Ruta
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