Publications
1. Improving Childcare Quality Through Social Franchising (with Emily Beam and Maira Reimão) Conditionally accepted via pre-results review, Journal of Development Economics
Link to Stage 1 Pre-Analysis Plan (on JDE website); results scheduled to be posted in October 2026
Link to IPA webpage write-up
2. Which Price is Right? A Comparison of Three Standard Approaches to Measuring Prices Journal of Development Economics 163 (2023): 103106.
Link to Paper and published version
3. Facilitating Real-Time Cost Collection and Evaluating Cost-Effectiveness in a Multi-Armed Study with Government Partners in Ghana (with Shahana Hirji, Bethany Park, Edward Tsinigo, Sabrin Beg, Adrienne Lucas) Journal of Development Effectiveness (2022): 1-12.
Link to IPA Webpage on Cost Effectiveness Analysis (includes links to CEA data collection tool)
4. The Impact of Public Health Sector Stockouts on Private Sector Prices and Access to Healthcare: Evidence from the Anti-malarial Drug Market Journal of Health Economics, January 2022, 81:102544
5. Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa (with Sabrin Beg, Laura Derksen, Anne Karing, Jason Kerwin, Adrienne M. Lucas, Natalia Ordaz Reynoso, and Munir Squires) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, October 2021: 190:33-53.
(Also circulated as NBER Working Paper 28416)
6. Gender Bias in Assessments of Teacher Performance (with Sabrin Beg and Adrienne M. Lucas) AEA Papers and Proceedings, 111. 190-95.
Interview with Dr. Beg on the Global School Leaders podcast
7. Childcare Matters: Female Business Owners and the Baby-Profit Gap (with Solène Delecourt) Management Science, July 2021. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.3976
Link to Paper (includes Appendix)
Featured on the Development Impact blog
8. Health Insurance Transitions and Use of Fringe Banks: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act (with Katie Fitzpatrick) Contemporary Economic Policy (2021): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12479
9. When Patients Diagnose: The Effect of Patient Beliefs and Information on Provider Behavior Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 2020. 69(1). https://doi.org/10.1086/703080
10. The Price of Labor: Evaluating the Impact of Eliminating User Fees on Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes AEA Papers and Proceedings (2018) pp. 412-415.
Link to Paper and Online Appendix
11. The Effects of Health Insurance within Families: Experimental Evidence from Nicaragua (with Rebecca Thornton) World Bank Economic Review, October 2019, 33(3): 736-749.
Featured on VoxDev
12. Shopping While Female: Who Pays Higher Prices and Why? American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. 107(5): 146-49, 2017
13. Strategies for Optimal Implementation of Mystery Shoppers for Measuring Quality of Care in Developing Countries (with Kat Tumlinson) Global Health: Science and Practice. First published online: January 26, 2017. doi:10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00266
Other Work
VoxDev Literature Review on Female Labour Force Participation
Water Cooler Post on USAID's Closure (link also contains the podcast discussion)