Publications
Non-monetary incentives for tobacco prevention in Indonesia (with Justin White, Journal of Health Economics, 2022)
Social interventions, health and wellbeing: The long-term and intergenerational effects of a school construction program (with Bhash Mazumder and Maria Fernanda Rosales, Journal of Human Resources, 2021)
Intergenerational human capital spillovers: Indonesia’s school construction and its effects on the next generation (with Bhash Mazumder and Maria Fernanda Rosales, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019. Appendix)
The persistent effects of early-life exposure to air pollution: Evidence from the Indonesian forest fires (with Maria Fernanda Rosales, Journal of Human Resources, 2019)
A thousand girls a day: An empirical exploration of female child marriage determinants in Indonesia (with Lauren Rumble, Amber Peterman, Nadira Irdiana, and Emilie Minnick, BMC Public Health, 2018)
The impact of household conditional cash transfer on quality of care (with Anuraj Shankar, BMJ Open, 2017)
Do health care providers respond to demand-side incentives? Evidence from Indonesia (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016)
The Persistence of Programme Effects: Evidence from Indonesia's 'Midwife in the Village' Programme (Population Studies, 2016)
The sources of wage growth in a developing country (with Ioana Marinescu) (IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2016)
Working papers
Selective mortality and the long-term effects of early-life exposure to natural disasters (with Xing Xia, revision requested, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics)
The socio-economic determinants of smoking in Indonesia (with Firman Witoelar, John Strauss, and Pungpond Rukumnuaykit, revision requested, BMC Public Health)
The effects of community and household interventions on birth outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia
Selected work in progress
Nurturing parents and children in rural Indonesia (with Emanuela Galasso, Helen Henningham, Maria Rosales, and Elan Satriawan)
Playful learning program and its effects on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of pre-school children in Uganda and Tanzania (in collaboration with BRAC-Africa and funding support from Lego Foundation, with Marilyn Fleer, Asadul Islam, and Claus Portner)
I continue to work on human capital investments in low and middle-income countries, including the role of environmental factors and policies.