Press Coverage
COVID-19 Age-Mortality Curves for 2020 Are Flatter in Developing Countries Using Both Official Death Counts and Excess Deaths. With Gabriel Demombynes, Paul Gubbins, Beatriz Piedad Urdinola and Jeremy Veillard. World Bank Policy Research working paper 9807. Washington, D.C. 2021.
Media coverage: Radio Canada, Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Situation report
"How many infants may have died in low-income and middle-income countries in 2020 due to the economic contraction accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic? Mortality projections based on forecasted declines in economic growth" with Gil Shapira and Jed Friedman. BMJ Open. 2021.
Media coverage includes: Deutsche Welle, BMJ Blog, yahoo!news, ArzteZeitung, Daily Mail, Aol, Hamburger Morgen Post, The New Indian Express, ORF (Austrian Broadcasting)
"The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies" (World Bank Policy Research Working 9677 and NBER Working Paper 28925) mentioned and quoted in The Economist, Bloomberg and The Manila Times and covered in Der Spiegel. and the Hamburger Morgen Post and covered in podcast Research Pod.
Interviewed and quoted about study of lottery incentives for HIV prevention in Lesotho and lotteries as incentives for COVID vaccination in Washington Post article.
Blog post on COVID-19: can behavior insights address vaccine hesitancy and increase take-up? Discussed in S&P Global.
How Two Tests Can Help Contain COVID-19 and Revive the Economy discussed in the Philippines press (Business Inquirer).
Interview for “The Apolitical” about evaluations of conditional cash transfers in Burkina Faso
Paper on lottery incentives for HIV prevention in Lesotho discussed and linked to in New York Times article
Television Interview about my research on HIV discordant couples with « Votre santé votre avenir » (Your Health, Your Future), the Health magazine of the francophone broadcast of Voice of America. (intervention starts at 3’35”).
Incentivising safer sexual behaviour: Evidence from a lottery experiment on HIV prevention. Article in Vox Development. With Martina Björkman, Lucia Corno and Jakob Svensson
Incentivizing safer sexual behavior: Using lotteries to prevent HIV. With Martina Björkman Nyqvist and Jakob Svensson. In Vox EU, CEPR’s Policy Portal.
Radio Interview (4 minutes) about my research on HIV discordant couples with « Votre santé votre avenir » (Your Health, Your Future), the Health magazine of the francophone channel of Voice of America.
Book “Risking your Health” covered in The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Star (Malaysia), The Phnom Penh Post, Voice of America and other media outlets (2013).
Research on lotteries as incentives for HIV covered in Bloomberg News/Business Week, in radio interview on “Morning Edition” on NPR, and article in Foreign Policy and the Huffington Post.
Article in Mail & Guardian, South African daily newspaper summarized the results from paper “Mines, Migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa” (2013).
Radio interview on BBC World Service, The World Today, on the results of the RESPECT study in Tanzania (CCT for HIV/STI Prevention) (2012).
Newspaper interview for “O Tempo” Brazilian Daily Newspaper, on the results of the RESPECT study in Tanzania (CCT for HIV/STI Prevention) (2012).
“World Bank rewards safe sex to boost fight against AIDS in Africa”, coverage of Tanzania project in the Financial Times (Front page article and editorial comment) (2008).