Research
Publications
"Incentivizing Quantity and Quality of Care: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation of Performance-Based Financing in the Health Sector in Tajikistan", with Tashrik Ahmed, Aneesa Arur and Damien de Walque. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 2023.
A non-technical summary: RBF Health
"Healthcare utilization and maternal and child Mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in 18 low- and middle-income countries: An interrupted time-series analysis with mathematical modeling of administrative data", with Tashrik Ahmed, Timothy Roberton, Monitoring of Essential Health Services Team, Jean Patrick Alfred, Martina Baye, Mamatou Diabate, Helen Kiarie, Paul Mbaka, Nur Ali Mohamud, Charles Mwansambo, Youssoupha Ndiaye, Charles Nzelu, Anthony Ofosu, Tsihory Raharison, Husnia Sadat, Francis Smart, Helal Uddin, Naod Wendrad, Chea Sanford Wesseh, Mohamad Lamine Yansane, Sylvain Yuma, Petra Vergeer, Peter Meredith Hansen, and Jed Friedman. PLOS Medicine. 2022.
"The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown policies", with Lin Ma, Damien de Walque, Quy-Toan Do, Jed Friedman, and Andrei A. Levchenko. International Economic Review. 2022.
A non-technical summary: Let's Talk Development, VoxEU.org
Media coverage: The Economist, Der Spiegel, Hamburger Morgen Post
"Competent and deficient provision of childbirth services: a descriptive observational study assessing the quality of intrapartum care in two provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo", with Stephan Brenner, Supriya Madhavan, Celine Kanionga Nseya, and Günther Fink. BMC Health Services Research. 2022.
"Inequality in the Quality of Health Services: Wealth, Content of Care, and Price of Antenatal Consultations in the Democratic Republic of Congo", with Günther Fink and Eeshani Kandpal. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 2022.
"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 Damien de Walque and Jed Friedman. BMJ Open. 2021.
Press release: BMJ Open Blog
Media coverage: Deutsche Welle, Healio.com, yahoo!news, ArzteZeitung, Daily Mail, Aol, , Hamburger Morgen Post
"Disruptions in Maternal and Child Health Service Utilization during COVID-19: Analysis from Eight Sub-Saharan African Countries" with Tashrik Ahmed, Salomé Henriette Paulette Drouard, Pablo Amor Fernandez, Eeshani Kandpal, Charles Nzelu, Chea Sanford Wesseh, Nur Ali Mohamud, Francis Smart, Charles Mwansambo, Martina L. Baye, Mamatou Diabate, Sylvain Yuma, Munirat Ogunlayi, Rwema Jean De Dieu Rusatira, Tawab Hashemi, Petronella Vergeer, and Jed Friedman. Health Policy and Planning. 2021.
"Quality of Clinical Assessment and Child Mortality: a Three-Country Cross-Sectional Study," with Nicole A Perales, Dorothy Wei, Aayush Khadka, Hannah Leslie, Saïdou Hamadou, Gervais Chamberlain Yama, Paul Jacob Robin, Margaret E Kruk, and Günther Fink. Health Policy and Planning. 2020.
"Quality of care for children with severe disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo," with Emma Clarke-Deelder, Hadia Samaha, György Béla Fritsche, and Günther Fink. BMC Public Health. 2019.
"Going beyond incentivizing formal health providers: Evidence from the Rwanda Community Performance‐Based Financing program," with Ina Kalisa, Jeanine Condo, James Humuza, Cathy Mugeni, and Jeanette Walldorf. Health Economics. 2018.
"How Subjective Beliefs about HIV Infection Affect Life-Cycle Fertility : Evidence from Rural Malawi," Journal of Human Resources. 2017.
"HIV Testing, Behavior Change, and the Transition to Adulthood in Malawi," with Kathleen Beegle and Michelle Poulin. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 2015.
"How Beliefs about HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors: Evidence from Malawi," with Áureo de Paula and Petra Todd. Journal of Applied Econometrics. 2014. (Paper with online appendix and link to data and program archive directory)
Working Papers and Preprints
"Impacts of Perfromance-Based Financing on Health System Performance: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo," with Emma Clarke-Deelder, Baudouin Makuma Booto, Hadia Samaha, György Béla Fritsche, Michel Muvudi, Dominique Baabo, Delphin Antwisi, Saloua Benami, and Günther Fink.
"Financial Incentives, Fertility, and Son Preference in Armenia", with Florencia Pinto and Josefina Posadas.
Work in Progress
Financially-Incentivized Knowledge Assessments to Improve Provider Compliance with Treatment Guideline: A Randomized Controlled Trial” (with Günther Fink, György Fritsche, Hadia Samaha, and Claude Sese)
Estimation of a model of health facility choice for antenatal care in DRC (with Günther Fink, Drew Griffen and Naoki Wakamori)
Decomposition of the Wealth Gradient in Maternal Care Quality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (With Patrick Eozenou and Sven Neelsen)