Research

Peer-reviewed Publications

To invest or not to invest in sanitation: the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power (with Britta Augsburg, Harriet Olorenshaw and Zaki Wahhaj)  Journal of Development Economics (open access), May 2023 DATA  VoxDev

Labeled Loans and Human Capital Investments (with Britta Augsburg, Bet Caeyers, Sara Giunti and Susanna Smets) Journal of Development Economics, May 2023 (open access) DATA

Final draft combines the earlier working papers Labelled Loans and Human Capital Investments and Can micro-credit complement public health subsidy programs?

The effects of emergency government cash transfers on beliefs and behaviours during the COVID pandemic: Evidence from Brazil (with Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon and Ben McQuillin) Journal of Behavior and Organization, April 2023 (open access)

Spillovers of Community-Based Health Interventions on Consumption Smoothing (with Marcos Vera-Hernandez) Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 70(4), July 2022.

Family Networks and Infant Health Promotion: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation from a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial in Rural Malawi, with M. Scott (OPM), C. King (UCL-IGH), T. Phiri (Mai Mwana), H. Chapota (Mai Mwana), E. Kainja (Mai Mwana), F. Banda (Mai Mwana) and M. Vera-Hernandez (UCL and IFS). BMJ Open, Vol. 8(6), 2018. (open access)

Credibly Identifying Social Effects: Accounting for Network Formation and Measurement Error (joint with Arun Advani), Journal of Economic Surveys, September 2018. (open access)

Group size and the efficiency of informal risk sharing (joint with Emla Fitzsimons and Marcos Vera-Hernandez), The Economic Journal, July 2018. (open access)

Methods to Identify Linear Network Models: A Review, (joint with Arun Advani), Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2018 (solicited)

Nutrition, Information and Household Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from Malawi (joint with Emla Fitzsimons, Alice Mesnard and Marcos Vera-Hernandez),  Journal of Development Economics, 2016, Vol. 122, pp. 113-126. (open access)

Empirically Probing the Quantity-Quality Model (joint with Emla Fitzsimons), Journal of Population Economics, 2014. 27(1): 33-68. 

Working Papers

Complementarities in the production of child health (with Laura Abramovsky, Britta Augsburg, Pamela Jervis-Ortiz and Angus Phimister) Revised and Resubmitted, Journal of Human Capital

Socially Close and Distant Connections in Risk Sharing  

Personalized Information Provision and the Take-Up of Government Benefits: Experimental Evidence from India (with Amrit Amirapu, Irma Clots-Figueras, Anirban Mitra, Debayan Pakrashi and Zaki Wahhaj) AEA Registry  Ideas for India    

Selected Work in Progress

When the timing is not right: Unintended consequences of information provision (with Britta Augsburg, Maitreesh Ghatak and Sara Giunti)

Neighbourhood effects in sanitation: Evidence from rural India (with Chima Rickards)

The Effects of Mobile-Based Information Provision and Peer-Based Information Sharing Channels on Small Firms in India (with Amrit Amirappu and Irma Clots-Figueras) AEA Registry status: data collection completed, analysis in progress.

Consumption loans and peer monitoring in joint-liability micro-credit (with Britta Augsburg)

Older work

Empirical Methods for Networks Data: Social Effects, Network Formation and Measurement Error (joint with Arun Advani), IFS Working Paper 14/34. (Parts of this have been published in "Methods to Identify Linear Network Models: A Review" and "Credibly Identifying Social Effects: Accounting for Network Formation and Measurement Error")

Selected Non-Peer Reviewed Publications and Policy Reports

Is Borrowing Relief Ending too Soon? Post-lockdown Income Recovery and Loan Moratoriums in Rural India (joint with Britta Augsburg), Economic and Political Weekly, vol. LVI, No. 2, Jan 2021.

Extended family networks and household well-being: evidence from Malawi (joint with Molly Scott and Marcos Vera-Hernandez), IFS Report Summary, 2015.

Child Development and Policy Interventions in Developing Countries (joint with Alison Andrew), IFS Report Summary, 2014.

The Randomised Evaluation Revolution, The Economic Review, 2008.