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Economics Publications:
Economics Publications:
Chimbutane, F., Karachiwalla, N., Herrera-Almanza, C., Leight, J., & Lauchande, C. (2025). 'The effect of teacher training and community literacy programming on teacher and student outcomes,' Journal of Development Economics, 103578.
Karachiwalla, N., Kosec, K., Asad, S., Habib, M., Leaver, C., and Ur-Rehman, A. (2025). ‘Coaching, not monitoring? Insights from a school accountability reform in Pakistan’, forthcoming at Education Finance and Policy.
Andrabi, T., Bau, N., Das, J., Karachiwalla, N. & Khwaja, A. (2024). 'Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education,' Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 139, Issue 4, Pages 2525–2577.
Hidrobo, M., Karachiwalla, N., & Roy, S. (2023) The impacts of cash transfers on mental health and investments: Experimental evidence from Mali. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 216, pp 608-630.
Kurdi, S., Breisinger, C., ElDidi, H., El-Enbaby, H., Gilligan, D., and Karachiwalla, N. (2023). 'Cash Transfers, Gender Norms, and Women's Control Over Decision-Making in Egypt,' Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 73, Issue 4, pp 1721-1760.
Gilligan, D., Karachiwalla, N., Kasirye, I., Lucas, A., and Neal, D. (2019). 'Educator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools', Journal of Human Resources 1118-9871R2.
Karachiwalla, N. (2019). 'A teacher unlike me: social distance, learning, and intergenerational mobility in developing countries', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 67(2), 225-271.
Ashour, M., Gilligan, D. Hoel, J., & Karachiwalla, N. (2019). 'Do beliefs about agricultural input counterfeiting correspond with actual rates of counterfeiting? Evidence from Uganda', Journal of Development Studies, 55(6) 1285-1306.
Karachiwalla, N. and A. Park, (2017). 'Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from Chinese Schools', Journal of Public Economics, 146, 109-128.
Health Publications:
Health Publications:
Braga, Bianca C.; Nguyen, Phuong H.; Tran, Lan Mai; Hoang, Nga Thu; Bannerman, Boateng; Doyle, Frank; et al. (2024). Feasibility of using an artificial intelligence-based telephone application for dietary assessment and nudging to improve the quality of food choices of female adolescents in Vietnam: Evidence from a randomized pilot study. Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 8, 102063.
Chimbutane, F., Herrera-Almanza, C., Karachiwalla, N., Lauchande, C., & Leight, J. (2023). COVID-19 school closures and mental health of adolescent students: Evidence from rural Mozambique. SSM-Mental Health, 3, 100203.
Ahmed, A., Hoddinott, J., Karachiwalla, N. & Roy, S. (2018). ' Nutrition behaviour change communication causes sustained effects on IYCN knowledge in two cluster-randomised trials in Bangladesh', Maternal and Child Nutrition, 14(1), e12498.
Hoddinott, J., Karachiwalla, N., Ledlie, N., & Roy, S. (2016). 'Adolescent girls' infant and young child nutrition knowledge levels and sources differ among urban and rural samples in Bangladesh', Maternal and Child Nutrition, 12 (4), 885-897.
Book Chapters:
Book Chapters:
Suri T, C Udry, J C. Aker, C B. Barrett, L Falcao Bergquist, M Carter, L Casaburi, R Darko Osei, D Gollin, V Hoffmann, T Jayne, N Karachiwalla, H Kazianga, J Magruder, H Michelson, M Startz, E Tjernstrom. (2024). Agricultural Technology in Africa” VoxDevLit, 5.2, March 2024.
Abay, Kibrom A.; Karachiwalla, Naureen; Kurdi, Sikandra; and Salama, Yousra. 2023. Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt. In The Russia-Ukraine Conflict and Global Food Security, eds. Joseph Glauber and David Laborde. Section Four: Country Impacts and Responses: Middle East and North Africa, Chapter 25, Pp. 129-134.
Kurdi, S., Breisinger, C., ElDidi, H., El-Enbaby, H., Gilligan, D., and Karachiwalla, N. (2018). 'Targeting social safety nets using proxy means tests: Evidence from Egypt’s Takaful and Karama program', Chapter 10 in ReSAKKS Annual Trends and Outlook Report, 135-153.
Working Papers:
Working Papers:
Keenan, M., Koo, J., Mwangi, C., Karachiwalla, N., Breisinger, C., & Kim, M. (2024). Man vs. machine: Experimental evidence on the quality and perceptions of AI-generated research content. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2321. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
Karachiwalla, N., Gilligan, D. O., and Kurdi, S. (2024). Don’t spend it all in one place: The medium-term effects of a national cash transfer program on household well-being. IFPRI MENA Working Paper 45. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
Chimbutane, F., Karachiwalla, N., Herrera-Almanza, C., Leight, J., & Lauchande, C. (2025). The effect of teacher training and community literacy programming on teacher and student outcomes. IZA Discussion Paper No. 17611. Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), submitted.
Karachiwalla, N. & Palloni, G. (2022). 'Human Capital and Structural Transformation,' IFPRI Discussion Paper 01836. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Gilligan, D., & Karachiwalla, N., & Thai, G. (2022). ‘Subsidies and Product Assurance: Evidence from Agricultural Technologies’, working paper.
Berhane, G., Gilligan, D., Hoddinott, J., Hirvonen, K., Karachiwalla, N. (2020). ‘Time-use of front-line health workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in rural Ethiopia: a quantitative study’, working paper.
Gilligan, D., Hoel, J., & Karachiwalla, N. (2018). 'Quantitative versus qualitative measures of eliciting ambiguity preferences: Evidence from Uganda', working paper.
Permanent Working Papers:
Karachiwalla, N. (2006). 'The Extended Family as a Risk-Sharing Institution: Evidence from Urban and Rural Tanzania', MSc Thesis, University of Oxford.
Projects:
Projects:
I lead a body of work on social protection and markets under the 1CGIAR Science Program of Market-led Transformation, which includes several impact evaluations with various research teams in Egypt, Ghana, and Kenya, ongoing.
Lead PI: World Vision PARES evaluation on phase-out of school-feeding in Mozambique (with James Allen, Feliciano Chimbutane, Carlos Lauchande, and Deboleena Rakshit), ongoing.
PI: Impact of World Vision's Ultra-poor graduation program among IDPs in Somalia on household livelihoods (with Jessica Leight and Kalle Hirvonen), ongoing.
Lead PI: Evaluation of the McGovern Dole school meals and World Vision Unlock Literacy intervention in Mozambique (with Feliciano Chimbutane, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Carlos Lauchande, and Jessica Leight), ongoing.
Co-PI: Evaluation of Egypt's Takaful and Karama conditional cash transfer programme (with Daniel Gilligan, and Sikandra Kurdi), ongoing.
Co-PI: E-verification as a method to reduce counterfeiting of agricultural inputs in Uganda (with Daniel Gilligan and Giang Thai), ongoing.
Work Package lead, 1CGIAR Initiative National Policies and Strategies (NPS), concluded.
Lead PI: Understanding the effects of Covid-19 among households in Uganda (with Daniel Gilligan and Giang Thai), concluded.
PI: Evaluation of the Jigisémèjiri Cash Transfer Program in Mali (with Melissa Hidrobo, Lieven Huybregts, and Shalini Roy), concluded.
Lead-PI: Teacher and school principal accountability in Pakistan (with Saher Asad, Masooma Habib, Katrina Kosec, and Clare Leaver), concluded.
Other Work:
Other Work:
Secondary Education Financing in Asia and the Pacific (with G. Rawle), UNESCO Report, 2011.
Appropriate and Effective Financing Modalities and Channels for Education in Fragile Situations (with A. Thompson), INEE Report, October 2009.
Cleaning up dirty elections (with A. Teytelboym), CSAE Briefing Paper 02, Sept. 2009.
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