Research
Publications
"Heterogeneous Effects of Blood Pressure Screening", co-authored with Irene Mosca, Economics Letters, 2024, 242 (long version available here)
“Barker’s Hypothesis Among the Global Poor: Positive Long-term Cardiovascular Effects of In-utero Famine Exposure”, co-authored with Alberto Ciancio, Iliana Kohler, Jere Behrman, Jürgen Maurer, and Hans-Peter Kohler, Demography, 2023, 60(6)
"The Heterogeneous Effects of Internet Voting", co-authored with Alberto Ciancio, European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 79
"Cognition and Cognitive Changes in a Low-Income Sub-Saharan African Aging Population", co-authored with Iliana Kohler, Chiwoza Bandawe, and Hans-Peter Kohler, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2023, 95(1)
"Public Health Insurance Coverage in India Before and After PM-JAY: Repeated Cross-Sectional Analysis of Nationally Representative Survey Data", co-authored with Sanjay K. Mohanty, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Suraj Maiti, Radhe Shyam Mishra, Jürgen Maurer, and Owen O’Donnell, BMJ Global Health, 2023, 8(8)
“Curtailing Covid-19 on a Dollar-a-day in Malawi: Role of Community Leadership for Shaping Public Health and Economic Responses to the Pandemic”, co-authored with Iliana Kohler, Alberto Ciancio, James Mwera, Victor Mwapasa, and Hans-Peter Kohler, World Development, 2022, 151
"The Effects of Negative Economic Shocks at Birth on Adolescents’ Cognitive Outcomes and Educational Attainment in Malawi", co-authored with Fatima Zahra, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Rachel Kidman, Social Science and Medicine – Population Health, 2022, 18
“Missed Opportunities for Hypertension Screening: a Cross-Sectional Study, India”, co-authored with Sanjay K. Mohanty, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Prashant Shekhar, Jürgen Maurer and Owen O’Donnell, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2022, 100(1)
“Prevalence of Pain and its Treatment Among Older Adults in India: a Nationally Representative Population-based Study”, co-authored with Sanjay K. Mohanty, Mayanka Ambade, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Radhe Shyam Mishra, Sarang Pedgaonka, Owen O’Donnell, and Jürgen Maurer, Pain, 2022, 164(2)
“Pain is Widespread and Predicts Poor Mental Health Among Older Adults in Rural Malawi”, co-authored with Benson Chilima, Alberto Ciancio, Iliana Kohler, Hans-Peter Kohler, James Mwera, Victor Mwapasa, Jürgen Maurer, and Steve Vinkhumbo, Innovation in Aging, 2022, 6(3)
“Health Screening for Emerging Non-Communicable Disease Burdens Among the Global Poor: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa”, co-authored with Alberto Ciancio, Iliana V. Kohler, and Hans-Peter Kohler, Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 75
"Health-Seeking and Diagnosis Delay and its Associated Factors: a Case Study on COVID-19 Infections in Shaanxi Province, China", co-authored with Wenyuan Zheng, and Zhiyong Huang, Nature - Scientific Reports, 2021, 11
“The Causal Effects of Education on Welfare Participation in the US”, Education Economics, 2021, 29(6)
"Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension in Adults aged 45 Years and Over and their Spouses in India: a Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Study", co-authored with Sanjay K. Mohanty, Sarang P. Pedgaonkar, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Prashant Shekhar, Radhe Shyam Mishra, Jürgen Maurer, and Owen O'Donnell, PLOS Medicine, 2021, 18(8)
“The Association between Depression and Subjective Sleep Quality: Truth or Reporting Bias?”, co-authored with Zhiyong Huang, PLOS One, 2021, 16(2)
“Predictors of Mental Health During the Early Covid-19 Pandemic in the US: Role of Economic Concerns, Health Worries and Social Distancing”, co-authored with Iliana Kohler, Alberto Ciancio, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Jürgen Maurer, and Hans-Peter Kohler, PLOS One, 2020, 15(11)
“Cohort Profile: The Mature Adults Cohort of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH-MAC)”, co-authored with Iliana Kohler, Chiwoza Bandawe, Alberto Ciancio, Collin F. Payne, James Mwera, James Mkandawire, and Hans-Peter Kohler, BMJ Open, 2020, 10(10)
“Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Response: Early Perceptions of COVID-19 in the United States”, co-authored with Alberto Ciancio, Iliana Kohler, Daniel Bennett, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Arie Kapteyn, Jürgen Maurer, and Hans-Peter Kohler, PLOS One, 2020, 15(9)
“Using Grip Strength to Compute Physical Health-Adjusted Old Age Dependency Ratios”, co-authored with Iliana Kohler, Mamadou Bountogo, James Mwera, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Jürgen Maurer, Social Science and Medicine – Population Health, 2020, 11
“Utilization of Research Knowledge in Sustainable Development Pathways: Insights from a Transdisciplinary Research-for-development Programme”, co-authored with a (very) long list of researchers involved in the r4d projects sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Environmental Science and Policy, 2020, 103
“Validity of a Single-item Visual Analogue Scale for Measuring Depression Among University Students in Switzerland”, co-authored with Zhiyong Huang, and Iliana Kohler, Community Mental Health Journal, 2020, 56(2)
“Aging, Non-Communicable Diseases, and Old-Age Disability in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Challenge for Global Health”, co-authored with Nilmini Wijemunige, and Benedict Jr. Evangelista, International Journal of Public Health, 2018, 63(9), Editorial YRE
“Does Education Help “Old Dogs” Learn “New Tricks? The Lasting Impact of Early-life Education on Technology Use Among Older Adults”, co-authored with Jürgen Maurer, Research Policy, 2018, 47(6), Codes: Manual_Cluster_robust_VCV_matrix.R
“Time to burn (calories)? The Impact of Retirement on Physical Activity Among Mature Americans”, co-authored with Jürgen Maurer, Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 45(c)
Working papers
“Surviving Bad News: Health Information Without Treatment Options”, jointly with Alberto Ciancio, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Rebecca Thornton, University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2024-102 , conditionally accepted at AER: Insights
“Inequity in Healthcare with Unequal Response to Need in the Older Population of India: Analysis of Nationally Representative Data”, jointly with Sanjay K. Mohanty, Junaid Khan, Suraj Maiti, Jürgen Maurer, and Owen O’Donnell, Revise & Resubmit at Social Science and Medicine
“Effectiveness of Population-Based Hypertension Screening: A Multidimensional Regression Discontinuity Design”, jointly with Xavier Gomez-Olive, Owen O'Donnell, and Carlos Riumallo Herl, UCD Centre for Economics Research, Working Paper Series WP23/20, under review
“Gender Difference in Quality of Life and Associated Reporting Heterogeneity”, jointly with Zhiyong Huang, under review
“Assessing Reporting Heterogeneity with Visual Analogue Scale (VAS): An Application to Quality of Life”, co-authored with Zhiyong Huang
“The Effects of Negative Economic Shocks at Birth on Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Work in progress
"Social Network and Leadership influence on vaccination behavior in Malawi", jointly with Iliana Kohler, Helene Purcell, James Mwera, Victor Mwapasa, and Hans-Peter Kohler
"The (very) long term effects of cash transfer on mental health", jointly with Alberto Ciancio and Hans-Peter Kohler
"Transgenerational Effects of Education on Health”, jointly with Zhiyong Huang and Xidong Guo
“Fixed-Effect Reporting Heterogeneity Correction in Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)”, third wave of data collection completed, jointly with Zhiyong Huang
“Heavy Drinker? Validity of Self-reported Drinking Behaviors”, data collected, jointly with Jürgen Maurer and Zhiyong Huang
“Let's Chat about Your Heart - Social Networks, Exchange of Information and Hypertension in a Low-Income Sub-Saharan Population”, jointly with Iliana Kohler, Alberto Ciancio, and Hans-Peter Kohler