Research

Publications:


Caste Differences in Child Growth: Disentangling Endowment and Investment Effects World Development. (2024) with Joe Cummins, Jingyan Guo, Anaka Aiyar, Vaishali Jain, and Andrew Bergmann


Political Commitment, Policy Consequences, and Moral Beliefs: Survey Evidence on the Minimum Wage, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (2022) with David Fairris


Zoom Lecture Attendance Patterns during the 2020 lockdown in New Zealand, Applied Economics Letters (2022)

with Viktoria Kahui, Murat Genc, Aleisha Lord


Path Dependence in Disability, Journal of African Economies (2021)

with Subha Mani and Hans-Peter Kohler


Month of Birth and Child Height in 40 Countries, Economics Letters (2017) 

with Anaka Aiyar, Arpita Bhattacharjee, Joseph Cummins, Christian Gunadi, Deepak Singhania, Matthew Taylor, and Evan Wington-Jones

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Obesity and Associated Health Disparities among Understudied, Multiracial, Pacific Islander, and American Indian Adults, Obesity  (2017)

with Bruce Link, Andrew Subica, and Greer Sullivan


Working Papers:


New Evidence on Vocational and Apprenticeship Training Programs in Developing Countries (with Subha Mani), forthcoming in the Handbook of Experimental Development Economics, edited by Utteeyo Dasgupta and Pushkar Maitra. 


Son Preference, Maternal Health, and Women's Survival- A Cross-Cultural Analysis (with Annamaria Milazzo), R&R at EDCC

In the Media: Ideas for India blog


To Work or Not to Work? Married Men's Earnings and the Labor Supply of Other Household Members  (with David Fielding and Arpita Bhattacharjee), R&R at Bulletin of Economic Research


 For Better or for Worse? Fertility Challenges and Marital Dissolution (with Mindy Marks), under review



Selected Work-in-Progress:


The Role of Consequences in Political Commitments Regarding Rent Control  (with David Fairris) AEA RCT ID: AEARCTR-0011652  

Do Donors to Charity really Not Care About Effectiveness? (with Stephen Knowles) 

Economic Development and the Motherhood Wage Penalty (with Mindy Marks)