His main research fields are Development Economics and Policy Evaluation. His current work focuses on the effect of providing gender-targeted cash transfers on household outcomes, rent-seeking behaviour and natural resources discovery, and education- and health-related policy interventions. During his professional career he worked on the evaluation of interventions in Eritrea, Mozambique and Eastern Europe, where he worked on the implementation and the evaluation of the first CCT in the Balkan region, the CCT for Secondary Education introduced by the Government of Macedonia. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University College London.