WORKING PAPERS
Disconnected: The Unequal Impact of Online Learning on Minority Students, with Naomi Gershoni. Revised & Resubmitted to the European Economic Review. IZA Discussion Paper No. 18445
Local Institutions and Leader Incentives: The Political Economy of Rwanda's Fertility Transition, with Maximilian Linek​. Presentations: ESPE, CSAE, EEA Congress.
Balancing the Books and Morale: The Impact of Pay Systems and Job Rotation on Worker Performance and Turnover, with Erika Deserranno, Julia Salmi, and Lame Ungwang. Presentations: CEPR Symposium, WEFIDEV, CSAE. AEA registry number: AEARCTR-0004529.
PUBLICATIONS
Gulesci, Selim, Francesco Loiacono, Andreas Madestam, and Miri Stryjan (2025) "SMEs and Workers during Crises: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda." AEA Papers and Proceedings 115: 345–50. Ungated version link:
Gershoni, Naomi and Miri Stryjan (2023) "Do Deadlines Affect Project Completion? Experimental Evidence from Israeli Vocational Colleges" Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 205: 359-375..Ungated version link
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Bonnier, Evelina, Jonas Poulsen, Thorsten Rogall, and Miri Stryjan (2020) "Preparing for genocide: quasi-experimental evidence from Rwanda." Journal of Development Economics 147: 102533.
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Ahlin, Christian, Selim Gulesci, Andreas Madestam, and Miri Stryjan (2020). "Loan contract structure and adverse selection: Survey evidence from Uganda." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 172: 180-195.
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Deserranno, Erika, Miri Stryjan, and Munshi Sulaiman (2019) "Leader Selection and Service Delivery in Community Groups: Experimental Evidence from Uganda." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11 (4): 240-67.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Credit contracts, Business Development and Gender: Evidence from Uganda, with Selim Gulesci Andreas Madestam and Francesco Loiacono, Mimeo, Stockholm University. Randomized control trial in Uganda. AEA registry number: AEARCTR-0003062
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The Anatomy of Collective Decision making – Voice and Choice in a Public Goods Game in Malawi, with Marina Caregnato-Garcia and Vesall Nourani. Lab-in-field experiment with farmer groups in Malawi. Part of AEARCTR-0001816.
Rotation policies for loan officers in Microfinance, with Erika Deserranno and Lame Ungwang. Randomized Field Experiment in Uganda. AEA registry number: AEARCTR-0004891
Financial inclusion to the last mile: Expansion of retail agent networks in the Philippines with Lisa Spantig. Pilot project in collaboration with IPA Philippines. https://poverty-action.org/increasing-awareness-agent-banking-improve-financial-inclusion-philippines
BOOK CHAPTERS & MISCALLANEOUS
Financial Inclusion and social outcomes, Miri Stryjan & Reut Barak Weekes, in Y. N Gez, R. Barak-Weekes and M. Kagan (eds) "International Development in Africa", Pardes books, 2019, (in Hebrew)
Sending money home - Remittances from the Somaliland diaspora in Sweden, Ekonomisk Debatt no. 3, 2009 (in Swedish, original title "Att skicka pengar till hemlandet – Remitteringar från den somaliländska diasporan i Sverige").