Jeremy Magruder's Research

Working Papers:

Highly Powered Analysis Plans (with Michael Anderson) (2023)

   stata code to implement optimus index

Split Sample Strategies for Avoiding False Discoveries (with Michael Anderson) (2024)

Published and Accepted Papers:

How do Digital Platforms Affect Employment and Job Search? Evidence from India (with Erin Kelley and Christopher Ksoll) (2024) Journal of Development Economics , vol 166 (January, 2024)

Urban Networks and Targeting: Evidence from Liberia (with Lori Beaman, Niall Keleher, and Carly Trachtman) (2021) AEA: Papers and Proceedings vol 111 pp 572-576
    Monrovia Targeting Appendix

Can Network Theory-based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption? (with Lori Beaman, Ariel BenYishay, and A. Mushfiq Mobarak) (2021) The American Economic Review vol 111(6) pp 1918-43.

Stay in the Game: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Sports and Lifeskills Program for Vulnerable Youth in Liberia (with Lori Beaman, Sylvan Herskowitz, and Niall Keleher) (2021). Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol 70(1) pp 129-158

Labor Market Changes in Response to Immigration: Evidence from Internal Migration Driven by Weather Shocks  (with Marieke Kleemans) (2018) the Economic Journal vol 128(613) pp 2032-65.

Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi (with Lori Beaman and Niall Keleher) (2018) Journal of Labor Economics, vol 36(1) pp 121-57.

An Assessment of Experimental Evidence on Agricultural Technology Adoption in Developing Countries (2018). Annual Review of Resource Economics vol 10: 299-316

Minding Small Change: Limited Attention Among Small Firms in Kenya (with Lori Beaman and Jonathan Robinson) (2014) Journal of Development Economics, vol 108 pp 69-86

    Changeout Survey Instrument

Can Minimum Wages Cause a Big Push? Evidence from Indonesia  (2013).  Journal of Development Economics,  vol 100(1) pp 48-62. 

    Minimum Wages Big Push Appendix
 
Who gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment (with Lori Beaman) (2012). The American Economic Review, vol 102(7) pp 3574-93.

    Kolkata Networks Appendix

Learning from the Crowd: Regression Discontinuity Estimates of the Effects of an Online Review Database (with Michael Anderson) (2012), The Economic Journal, vol 122(563) pp 957-89           

High Unemployment Yet Few Small Firms: The Role of Centralized Bargaining in South Africa (2012). AEJ: Applied Economics,  vol 4(3) pp 138-66.

    Centralized Bargaining Model Appendix

Marital Shopping and Epidemic AIDS (2011).  Demography, vol 48(4) pp. 1401-1428.

    Marital Shopping Web Appendix

Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South Africa (2010).  AEJ: Applied Economics, vol 2(1) pp 62-85.

    Web Appendix: Intergenerational Networks

“Exploring Attrition Bias: The Case of the Khayelitsha Panel Study (2000- 2004)” (with Nicoli Nattrass) (2006). The South African Journal of Economics, vol 74(4) pp. 769-781.