I am an Evidence Synthesis and Research Lead at the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago. I’m interested broadly in development economics, industrial organization, and applied econometrics. I completed my PhD in Agricultural & Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Privatization of a public good (the management of sewage treatment centers in Dakar, Senegal) leads to an increase in the productivity of downstream sewage dumping companies and a decrease in downstream prices of the services they provide to households. We use the universe of legal dumping of sanitation waste from May 2009 to May 2018 to show that legal dumping increased substantially following privatization–on average an increase of 74%, or an increase of about 1640 trips to treatment centers each month. T