Katherine Casey

The Katherine and David deWilde Faculty Scholar, 2022-2023

Publications

Long Run Effects of Aid: Forecasts and Evidence from Sierra Leone with R. Glennerster, E. Miguel and M. Voors 
The Economic Journal 2023
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Snap Judgments: Predicting Politician Competence from Photos 
Journal of Politics 2022, 84(2): 698-713
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An Experiment in Candidate Selection with A.B. Kamara and N. Meriggi
American Economic Review, 2021, Vol 111(5): pp. 1575-1612
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Skill versus Voice in Local Development with R. Glennerster, E. Miguel and M. Voors
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021: 1-46.
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Debates: Voting and Expenditure Responses to Political Communication with K. Bidwell and R. Glennerster
Journal of Political Economy, 2020, Vol 8, pp. 2880-2924
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Radical Decentralization: Does Community Driven Development Work?
Annual Review of Economics, 2018, Vol 10: pp. 138-163
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Reconciliation in Sierra Leone with R. Glennerster
Science (Perspectives section), 2016, Vol 352 (6287): pp. 776-767
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Crossing Party Lines: The Effects of Information on Redistributive Politics
American Economic Review, 2015, Vol 105(8): pp. 2410-2448
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Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research with E. Miguel, C. Camerer, J. Cohen, K.M. Esterling, A. Gerber, R. Glennerster, D.P. Green, G. Imbens, D. Laitin, L. Nelson,  B.A. Nosek,  M. Peterson, R. Sedlmayr, J.P. Simmons, U. Simonsohn and M. Van der Laan
Science, 2014, Vol 343(6166): pp 30-31
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Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-Analysis Plan with R. Glennerster and E. Miguel
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012,Vol. 127(4): pp. 1755-1812
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Working Papers and Works in Progress

The Incentives to (Not) Debate in Low Information Races with R. Glennerster.
Stanford GSB working paper, 2022

Candidate Entry into Local Government with A. Kamara, N. Meriggi, and A. Rodriguez

Decentralization with Guardrails: Enhancing the Zambia Constituency Development Fund with J. Bowles and A. Rodriguez