My research has been supported by competitive grants, fellowships, and funded collaborations focused on early-life health, human capital, fertility, and social policy in low- and middle-income countries. This support has enabled work spanning fetal origins, labor market institutions, women’s empowerment, and the long-run consequences of early-life disadvantage.
National Institutes of Health (NIH), R03 Grant, 2019–2021
Principal Investigator. Household Income at Birth and Preschool Child Health. This project examined the causal effects of minimum wages around the time of birth on child nutrition and early-life health in Indonesia.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2016–2020
Co-Investigator (PI: Sonia Laszlo). Cash Transfers, Fertility, and Women’s Empowerment. This project studied the unintended effects of Peru’s JUNTOS conditional cash transfer program on fertility, family planning, and women’s bargaining power within the household.
Grand Challenges Canada / Saving Brains, 2013–2014
Postdoctoral Researcher (PI: Jere Behrman). This work examined the economic impacts of poverty-related risks to early cognitive development and contributed to research on how early-life deficits shape later-life human capital and inequality.
Hewlett Foundation–IIE Dissertation Fellowship (PopPov), 2011–2013
Principal Investigator. This fellowship supported my dissertation research on the long-run effects of prenatal Ramadan exposure, which later developed into my work on fetal origins, early-life shocks, and life-course inequality.