Research

Publications:

• "Cost-benefit analysis of a micronutrient supplementation and early childhood stimulation program in Nicaragua." 2014. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1308: 139-148. (with F. Lopez Boo and Sergio Urzua)

• Palloni, G. (2016). "Childhood health and the wantedness of male and female children." 2017. Journal of Development Economics, 126: 19-32.

A4NH  Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange Blog

• "Microcredit and Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: Evidence from a Randomized-Controlled Trial of Finance for Sanitation in Rural Cambodia." 2017. Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 86: 121-140. (with Ariel Ben Yishay, Andrew Fraker, Raymond Guiteras, Neil Shah, Stuart Shirrell, and Paul Wang).

• "Water, sanitation and child health: Evidence from subnational panel data in 59 countries." 2019. Demography, 56(2): 729-752 (with Derek Headey).

• "Stunting and Wasting Among Indian Preschoolers have Moderate but Significant Associations with the Vegetarian Status of their Mothers." 2020. Journal of Nutrition, 150(6): 1579-1589 (with Derek Headey).

• "Childhood housing and adult outcomes: A between-siblings analysis of housing vouchers and public housing." 2022. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14(3): 235-272. (with Fredrik Andersson, John C. Haltiwanger, Mark J. Kutzbach, Giordano Palloni, Henry O. Pollakowski, and Daniel H. Weinberg).

Media Coverage: Washington Post; Housing Matters; Community Commons; National Low Income Housing Coalition

• "Paying for Digital Information: Assessing Farmers' Willingness to Pay for a Digital Agriculture and Nutrition Service in Ghana." 2022. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 70(4): . (with Jenny Aker, Daniel Gilligan, Melissa Hidrobo, and Natasha Ledlie).

Working Papers:

• "The Children of HOPE VI Demolitions: National Evidence on Labor Market Outcomes." 2020. NBER working Paper 28157.  Conditionally Accepted at the Journal of Public Economics. (with John C. Haltiwanger, Mark J. Kutzbach, Henry O. Pollakowski, Matthew Staiger, and Daniel H. Weinberg).

 Media Coverage:  NBER Digest

• "Human Capital and Structural Transformation." 2019. (with Naureen Karachiwalla).

• "Mobile Nutrition? A Randomized Evaluation of a Mobile Phone-Based Information Service in Tanzania." 2020. (with Daniel O. Gilligan, Melissa Hidrobo, and Heleene Tambet).

• "Neighborhood Revitalization and Residential Sorting." 2024. CES Working Paper Number CES-24-12. (with Matthew Staiger and John Voorheis).

Work in Progress:

• "Individual Resource Shares in Collective Households and Child Nutrition in Bangladesh." (with John Hoddinott and Neha Kumar).

• Social Protection, Behavior Change Communication, and the Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources: Evidence from Five cRCTs."