Works in Progress

“Worker Assignment and National Unity: Are All Stable Matches Socially Stable?,” with Guthrie Gray-Lobe and Michael Kremer.

“Quantity Responses to Quality: Initial Endowments and Endogenous Fertility,” with Samuel Danilola and Claus Pörtner.

“The Unintended Consequences of Texas Education Agency’s Takeover of Houston Independent School District,” with Blake Heller and Toni Templeton.

“Institutional Births and Early Child Health: Evidence from Ghana’s Free Delivery Policy,” with Anthony Keats.

“Children’s Identities and Parents’ Attitudes,” with Jean Boblawende Kabore.

“Evolution of Cultural Attitudes and Sex of Children in West Africa,” with Jean Boblawende Kabore.

Working Papers

“Local Economic Conditions and Participation in the Rwandan Genocide,” Households in Conflict Network Working Paper No. 160.

Publications and Forthcoming

“Educational Effects of Sibling Deaths on Surviving Siblings,” with Marc Rockmore and Dhanu Thamarapani, Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming.

Thamarapani, Dhanushka, Marc Rockmore, and Willa Friedman. “Educational Effects of Sibling Deaths on Surviving Siblings.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming.

“When Information Is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralised School Choice System,” with Kehinde Ajayi and Adrienne Lucas, Economic Journal, 2026.

Ajayi, Kehinde F., Willa H. Friedman, and Adrienne M. Lucas. “When Information Is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralised School Choice System.” Economic Journal 136, no. 673 (2026): 26–60.

“Reducing Bias Among Health Care Providers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania, Burkina Faso and Pakistan,” with Zachary Wagner, Corrina Moucheraud, Manisha Shah, Alexandra Wollum, and William Dow, Economic Journal, 2025.

Wagner, Zachary, Corrina Moucheraud, Manisha Shah, Alexandra Wollum, Willa Friedman, and William H. Dow. “Reducing Bias Among Health Care Providers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania, Burkina Faso and Pakistan.” Economic Journal 135, no. 670 (2025): 1891–1922.

“Characterizing Provider Bias in Contraceptive Care in Tanzania and Burkina Faso: A Mixed-Methods Study,” with Alexandra Wollum, Corrina Moucheraud, Jessica D. Gipson, Manisha Shah, and Zachary Wagner, Social Science & Medicine, 2024.

Wollum, Alexandra, Corrina Moucheraud, Jessica D. Gipson, Willa Friedman, Manisha Shah, and Zachary Wagner. “Characterizing Provider Bias in Contraceptive Care in Tanzania and Burkina Faso: A Mixed-Methods Study.” Social Science & Medicine 348 (2024): 116826.

“Disruptions to Healthcare Quality and Early Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from Health-Worker Strikes in Kenya,” with Anthony Keats and Martin Kavao Mutua, Journal of Health Economics, 2022.

Friedman, Willa, Anthony Keats, and Martin Kavao Mutua. “Disruptions to Healthcare Quality and Early Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from Health-Worker Strikes in Kenya.” Journal of Health Economics 86 (2022): 102694.

“Can Nudging Overcome Procrastinating on Preventive Health Investments?” with Nicholas Wilson, Economics & Human Biology, 2022. (preprint)

Friedman, Willa, and Nicholas Wilson. “Can Nudging Overcome Procrastinating on Preventive Health Investments?” Economics & Human Biology 45 (2022): 101040.

“Measuring Family Planning Provider Bias: A Discrete Choice Experiment Among Burkinabé, Pakistani, and Tanzanian Providers,” with Maria Dieci, Zachary Wagner, Sarah Burgess, Jessica Vandermark, Sandra McCoy, Manisha Shah, and William Dow, Studies in Family Planning, 2021.

Dieci, Maria, Zachary Wagner, Willa Friedman, Sarah Burgess, Jessica Vandermark, Sandra I. McCoy, Manisha Shah, and William H. Dow. “Measuring Family Planning Provider Bias: A Discrete Choice Experiment Among Burkinabé, Pakistani, and Tanzanian Providers.” Studies in Family Planning 52, no. 3 (2021): 299–320.

“Antiretroviral Drug Access and Behavior Change,” Journal of Development Economics, 2018.

Friedman, Willa. “Antiretroviral Drug Access and Behavior Change.” Journal of Development Economics 135 (2018): 392–411.

“Corruption and Averting AIDS Deaths,” World Development, 2018.

Friedman, Willa. “Corruption and Averting AIDS Deaths.” World Development 110 (2018): 13–25.

“The Importance of Information Targeting for School Choice,” with Kehinde Ajayi and Adrienne Lucas, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2017.

Ajayi, Kehinde F., Willa H. Friedman, and Adrienne M. Lucas. “The Importance of Information Targeting for School Choice.” American Economic Review 107, no. 5 (2017): 638–43.

“Advertising for Demand Creation for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision,” with Nicholas Wilson, Sasha Frade, and Dino Rech, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2016.

Wilson, Nicholas, Sasha Frade, Dino Rech, and Willa Friedman. “Advertising for Demand Creation for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision.” Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 72, suppl. 4 (2016): S293–96.

“Education as Liberation?” with Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, and Rebecca Thornton, Economica, 2016.

Friedman, Willa, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, and Rebecca Thornton. “Education as Liberation?” Economica 83, no. 329 (2016): 1–30.

“Can Mobile Phone Messages to Drug Sellers Improve Treatment of Childhood Diarrhoea? A Randomized Controlled Trial in Ghana,” with Minki Chatterji and Benjamin Woodman, Health Policy and Planning, 2015.

Friedman, Willa, Benjamin Woodman, and Minki Chatterji. “Can Mobile Phone Messages to Drug Sellers Improve Treatment of Childhood Diarrhoea? A Randomized Controlled Trial in Ghana.” Health Policy and Planning 30, suppl. 1 (2015): i82–92.

Book Chapters

“The Economics of Genocide in Rwanda,” in Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Prevention, edited by Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer, Oxford University Press, 2016.

Friedman, Willa. “The Economics of Genocide in Rwanda.” In Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Prevention, edited by Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer, 339–55. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Teaching

Development Economics (PhD)

Behavioral Economics (undergraduate)

Intermediate Microeconomics (undergraduate)