Journal Articles (by date)

• "Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills in Low-Income Countries : Measurement and Associations with Schooling and Earnings" with Alice Danon, Jishnu Das, and Andreas de Barros. 2024. Journal of Development Economics. 168: 103132. (WP version).

• "Improving Preschool Provision and Encouraging-Demand: Evidence from a Large Construction Program"  with Jan Berkes, Adrien Bouguen, and Tsuyoshi Fukao. 2024. Journal of Public Economics. 230: 105050. (WP version). 

• "Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality" with James Habyarimana and Shwetlena Sabarwal. Available online. Journal of Human Resources. (WP version). 

• "Long-Term Impacts of Primary School Scholarships: Evidence from Cambodia" with Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Andreas de Barros. 2024. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 43(1):10-38 (WP version)

• "Long-Lived Consequences of Rapid Scale-Up? : The Case of Free Primary Education in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries." 2023. International Journal of Educational Development. 102: 102872.  (WP version).

• "Cash Transfers, Food Prices, and Nutrition Impacts on Ineligible Children" with Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal, and Junko Onishi. 2023. Review of Economics and Statistics. 105(2):327-343. (WP version) (Online Appendix) (VoxDev)

• "Teacher Pay in Africa : Evidence from 15 Countries" with David K. Evans and Fei Yuan. 2022. World Development, 155: 105893. (WP version).

• "Heterogenous Teacher Effects of Two Incentive Schemes: Evidence from a Low-Income Country" with Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Jacobus Cilliers, and Marie-Helene Cloutier. 2022. Journal of Development Economics, 156: 102820. (WP version) (VoxDev)

• "Information, Knowledge and Behavior: Evaluating Alternative Methods of Delivering School Information to Parents" with Pedro Cerdan-Infantes and Santoso. 2022. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 70(2): 791-822. (WP version)

• Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS): Defining A New Macro Measure of Education with Halsey Rogers, Noam Angrist, and Shwetlena Sabarwal. 2020. Economics of Education Review, 77: 101971. (WP version)

• “Joint Effects of Parenting and Nutrition Status on Child Development: Evidence from Rural Cambodia” with Jan Berkes, Abbie Raikes, and Adrien Bouguen. 2019. Developmental Science. 22(5). (WP version)

• “Preschool and Parental Response in a Second Best World: Evidence from a School Construction Experiment” with Adrien Bouguen, Karen Macours and Sophie Naudeau. 2018. Journal of Human Resources. 53(2):474-512. (ungated version)

• "Enrollment without Learning: Teacher Effort, Knowledge, and Skill in Primary Schools in Africa" with Tessa Bold, Gayle Martin, Ezequiel Molina, Brian Stacy, Christophe Rockmore, Jakob Svensson, and Waly Wane. 2017. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 31(4):185-204. 

•  “A Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines Reduces Severe Stunting” with Eeshani Kandpal, Harold Alderman, Jed Friedman, Junko Onishi, and Jorge Avalos. 2016. The Journal of Nutrition. 146(9):1793-1800 (ungated version).

• “Incentivizing Schooling for Learning: Evidence on the Impact of Alternative Targeting Approaches” with Felipe Barrera-Osorio. 2016. Journal of Human Resources. 51(2):461-499. (ungated version)

• “The Medium-Term Effects of Scholarships in a Low-Income Country” with Norbert Schady. 2014. Journal of Human Resources.  49(3):663-694 (ungated version). 

• “Trends and Socioeconomic Gradients in Adult Mortality around the Developing World” with D. de Walque. 2013. Population and Development Review. 39(1):1-29. (WP version)

• “The Socioeconomic Distribution of Adult Mortality during Conflicts in Africa” with Damien de Walque. 2012. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. 18(3):1-9.

• “Assessing Asset Indices” with Kinnon Scott. 2011. Demography. 49(1):359-392. (WP version)

• “Does More Cash in Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Always Lead to Larger Impacts on School Attendance?”, with Norbert Schady. 2011. Journal of Development Economics, 96(1): 150-157. (WP version)

• “Orphanhood and the Living Arrangements of Children in Sub-Saharan Africa” with Kathleen Beegle, A. Stokes and L. Tiererova. 2010. World Development, 38(12): 1727-1746.  (WP version)

• “Development, Modernization, and Childbearing: The Role of Family Sex Composition” with Jed Friedman and Norbert Schady.  2009. World Bank Economic Review, 23(3):371-398. (WP version)

• "Getting Girls into School: Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia" with Norbert Schady. 2008. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 56(3):581-617. (WP version)

• "Disability, poverty and schooling in developing countries: Results from 14 household surveys" 2008. World Bank Economic Review. 22(1):141-163.  (WP version)

• "Autonomy, Participation and Learning: Findings from Argentine Schools, and Implications for Decentralization Education Economics" with Gunnar Eskeland. 2007. Education Economics 15(1): 103-127.  (WP version)

• "If You Build It, Will They Come? School Availability and School Enrolment in 21 Poor Countries" 2007. Journal of Development Studies 43(5): 901-928.  (WP version)

• “Gender and wealth disparities in schooling: Evidence from 44 countries” 2006. International Journal of Educational Research 43(6): 351-369.  (WP version)

• "Inequalities in Children's Schooling: AIDS, Orphanhood, Poverty, and Gender" with Martha Ainsworth. 2006. World Development 34(6): 1099-1128. (WP version)

• "Testing for pay and promotion bias in an international organization," with Elizabeth King, Dominique Van De Walle. 2005. International Journal of Manpower 26: 404-420.  (WP version)

• "Fever and its Treatment among the More and Less Poor in Sub-Saharan Africa" 2005. Health Policy and Planning 20(6, November): 337-46. (WP version)

• "Weak Links in the Chain II: A Prescription for Health Policy in Poor Countries" with Jeffrey Hammer and Land Pritchett. 2002. World Bank Research Observer 17(1,February): 47-66.  (WP version)

• "Environmental Degradation and the Demand for Children: Searching for the Vicious Circle" with Lant Pritchett. 2002. Environment and Development Economics 7(February): 123-146. (WP version)

• "Estimating Wealth Effects without Expenditure Data-or Tears: An Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India" with Lant Pritchett. 2001. Demography 38(1): 115-132.  (WP version)

• "Does Indonesia Have a 'Low Pay' Civil Service?" with David Lindauer. 2000. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 37(2): 189-205.  (WP version)

• " Weak Links in the Chain: A Diagnosis of Health Policy in Poor Countries ," with Jeffrey Hammer and Lant Pritchett. 2000. World Bank Research Observer 15(2): 199-224. (WP version)

• "The Effect of Household Wealth on Educational Attainment: Evidence from 35 Countries" with Lant Pritchett. 1999. Population and Development Review 25(1): 85-120. (WP version)

• "The Impact of Public Spending on Health: Does Money Matter?" with Lant Pritchett. 1999. Social Science and Medicine 49(10): 1309-23. 

• "What Education Production Functions Really Show: A Positive Theory of Education Expenditures" with Lant Pritchett. 1999. Economics of Education Review 18(2): 223-39. (WP version)