Publications:
Brown, Caitlin and Martin Ravallion. (2023). Inequality and Social Distancing during the Pandemic. Journal of Economic Inequality, 21: 670-702. [appendix]
Previous version: NBER Working Paper No. 30540
Brown, Caitlin, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle. (2023). Child Health and the Housing Environment. World Development, 168: 106265.
Brown, Caitlin, Rossella Calvi, Jacob Penglase , and Denni Tommasi. (2022). Measuring Poverty Within The Household. IZA World of Labor, 492.
Brown, Caitlin and Dominique van de Walle. (2021). Headship and Poverty in Africa. World Bank Economic Review, 35(4): 1038-1056. [appendix]
Brown, Caitlin, Rossella Calvi and Jacob Penglase (2021). Sharing the Pie: An Analysis of Undernutrition and Individual Consumption in Bangladesh. Journal of Public Economics, 200: 104460.
Brown, Caitlin, Martin Ravallion, and Dominique van de Walle. (2019). Most of Africa's Nutritionally-Deprived Women and Children are Not Found in Poor Households. Review of Economics and Statistics, 101(4): 631-644. [appendix]
Previous versions: NBER Working Paper No. 24047, World Bank Policy Research Paper No. 8001
Brown, Caitlin, Martin Ravallion, and Dominique van de Walle. (2018). A Poor Means Test? On Econometric Targeting in Africa. Journal of Development Economics, 134, 109-124. [appendix]
Previous versions: NBER Working Paper No. 22919, World Bank Policy Research Paper No. 7915
Ongoing Work:
Unequal Households or Communities? Decomposing the Inequality in Nutritional Status in South Asia with Eeshani Kandpal, Jean Lee, and Anaise Williams (under review)
Quality Upgrading in the Street Food Market: Is Better Equipment and Training Sufficient? with Denni Tommasi. [AEA RCT #0008797] Draft available upon request.
Political Reservations as Term-Limits with Garance Genicot and Nishtha Kochhar
Conflict and Trust in Institutions in a Closed Autocracy: Evidence from Sudan with Cristina Corduneanu-Huci
Strengthening Causal Inference: Using AI to Improve Monitoring Data Quality with Klaus Akermann and Denni Tommasi
Other Research:
How Well Can the World’s Poor Protect Themselves from the New Coronavirus? with Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle
Social Protection and Poverty in Yemen: Lessons from a Pre-Crisis Benchmark with Dominique van de Walle and Afrah Alawi Al-Ahmadi
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