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A Firm of One’s Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice

Published in Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024

Two labor-market interventions for young women in Nairobi both move women into self-employment with effects that persist six years on. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024.

Recommended citation: Brudevold-Newman, A., M. Honorati, G. Ipapa, P. Jakiela, and O. Ozier (2024). "A Firm of One's Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice." Review of Economics and Statistics.

Saturating the Safety Net: Cash Transfers, Skills, and Spillovers in an Urban Refugee Economy

Work in Progress

Randomized saturation-design RCT with ~4,000 refugee and host households in urban Nairobi. With Andrew Zeitlin, Billy Jack, and Alex Wendo.

Recommended citation: Ipapa, G., A. Zeitlin, B. Jack, and A. Wendo. "Saturating the Safety Net: Cash Transfers, Skills, and Spillovers in an Urban Refugee Economy." Work in Progress.

The Hidden Costs of Recycling: Lead Exposure and Student Learning

Working Paper

Lead exposure from battery recycling lowers test scores by 0.18 standard deviations, exceeding the gains from leading school-based interventions.

Recommended citation: Ipapa, G. "The Hidden Costs of Recycling: Lead Exposure and Student Learning." Working Paper. /files/Ipapa_HiddenCosts.pdf

Groundless Claims: Property Rights When Land Ceases to Exist

Work in Progress

Extends the Besley (1995) framework to climate-driven land loss; calibrated to Kenya's Rift Valley lakes.

Recommended citation: Ipapa, G. "Groundless Claims: Property Rights When Land Ceases to Exist." Work in Progress.

Property Rights, Climate Displacement, and Household Welfare: Evidence from Kenya’s Rising Lakes

Work in Progress

Tests how pre-existing tenure status shapes compensation, adaptation, and recovery after slow-onset climate displacement in Kenya's Rift Valley.

Recommended citation: Ipapa, G. "Property Rights, Climate Displacement, and Household Welfare: Evidence from Kenya's Rising Lakes." Work in Progress.

Cash, Caregiving, and the Youngest Refugees: Early Childhood Development Effects of Unconditional Transfers and Business Training in Displaced Households in Nairobi

Work in Progress

Adds a dedicated early-childhood-development arm (ages 0–8) to the Nairobi cash-and-training RCT, measuring effects on displaced children in the window when cognition, language, and self-regulation form.

Recommended citation: Ipapa, G. "Cash, Caregiving, and the Youngest Refugees: Early Childhood Development Effects of Unconditional Transfers and Business Training in Displaced Households in Nairobi." Work in Progress.

Livelihoods, Allocation, and Early Childhood Development in Refugee Graduation Programs

Work in Progress

Evaluates graduation programs in two Uganda refugee settlements through a natural experiment and a randomized staggered rollout of playgroup and coaching components. With Andrew Zeitlin and Gloria Ayesiga.

Recommended citation: Ipapa, G., A. Zeitlin, and G. Ayesiga. "Livelihoods, Allocation, and Early Childhood Development in Refugee Graduation Programs." Work in Progress.

Closing the Chain: From Used Lead-Acid Battery Recycling to Children’s Blood Lead, Learning, and Policy in Kenya

Work in Progress

Source attribution, blood-lead biomonitoring, and an in-situ dose-response for children around the 26 recycling plants of the Hidden Costs natural experiment. With Anirban Basu, Arijeet Mitra, and Kathrin Schilling.

Recommended citation: Ipapa, G., A. Basu, A. Mitra, and K. Schilling. "Closing the Chain: From Used Lead-Acid Battery Recycling to Children's Blood Lead, Learning, and Policy in Kenya." Work in Progress.

Research Seminar

Published: March 01, 2023

Research seminar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, presented in connection with the Philadelphia Fed’s 2023 mentorship fellowship.

Education in Africa: Career Progressions, Gaps in Learning Outcomes and Responding to the Learning Crisis Permalink

Published: March 29, 2023

With Adrienne Lucas, presented “Education in Africa: Career Progressions, Gaps in Learning Outcomes and Responding to the Learning Crisis” at the African Economic Research Consortium’s Senior Policy Seminar XXV on Human Capital Development in Africa, a two-day forum bringing together senior African policymakers, Nairobi, March 29–30, 2023. Event announcement · Seminar programme (PDF).

AERE Energy, Environment and Transportation Workshop Permalink

Published: April 01, 2023

Presented at AERE@OSWEET, the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists’ Online Summer Workshop in Environmental, Energy, and Transportation economics, 2023. Workshop programs.

Economics Seminar

Published: May 01, 2023

Department of Economics seminar, University of Delaware, 2023.

Sloan/Berkeley Graduate Workshop in Environmental and Energy Economics Permalink

Published: August 14, 2023

Presented at the 2023 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics (Energy Institute at Haas, University of California, Berkeley), attended as a Sloan/Berkeley Environmental and Energy Economics Fellow, August 2023. Program announcement.

The Hidden Costs of Recycling: Lead Exposure and Student Learning Permalink

Published: June 03, 2025

Presented The Hidden Costs of Recycling: Lead Exposure and Student Learning at the First Annual Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure, hosted by the Center for Global Development with the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future, Washington, DC, June 3–4, 2025. Event page.

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Microeconomics, Macroeconomics)

Teaching assistant, University of Delaware; Georgetown University, 2017

Graduate Teaching Assistant for Microeconomics and Macroeconomics: University of Delaware (2019–2022) and Georgetown University (2017–2019).

Development Economics (Instructor of Record)

Undergraduate course, University of Delaware, Department of Economics, 2023

Instructor of record for undergraduate Development Economics, 2023–2024.