Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Does Trade reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (preprint here), World Development, Volume 128, April 2020, 104851

 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104851

• Selective Mortality and Malnutrition in India (preprint here), Journal of Quantitative Economics, Nov 2019

        DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-019-00194-8

• Do rural health worker incentive schemes work? Evidence from Thailand (with Pasita Chaijaroen), Economics Bulletin, Volume 40, Issue 2, June 2020, pages 1583-1595. The published version is freely available here

• Trade and Health Linkages: A Global Panel Data Analysis Using the Gravity Model. Journal of Applied Business and Economics, 22(5), Sept 2020. 

        DOI: https://doi.org/10.33423/jabe.v22i5.3053

• COVID-19, Trade Disruptions, and Gender: A Survey of the Potential Interactions and Consequences for Economic Development in sub-Saharan Africa, Journal of African Development, 23 (2), 347-374, 2022. The published version is available here

• Women’s Education, Marriage, and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from Thailand’s Compulsory Schooling Law (with Pasita Chaijaroen), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 96, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2023.102440  

Preprint GLO Discussion paper. Published version here. 

Working Papers

• "Roads to Better Health: Linkages between Infrastructure and Child Health in India": Many people in rural areas in developing countries live at a distance from an all-weather road. This constrains their ability to access healthcare facilities and markets. This paper studies the impact of road construction on the health outcomes of those affected by a large-scale rural road construction program (PMGSY) in India. This study creates a new dataset involving health and road construction information at the village level in India. It estimates the causal outcome using two different estimation techniques to overcome any issue in the identification and endogeneity of road placement. In the short run, I do not find any statistically significant effect of road construction on child health outcomes, such as infant and neonatal mortality and sex ratio at birth.

• "Air Pollution and Fertility Outcomes in Thailand", with Pasita Chaijaroen

Work in Progress

• “Trade, Climate, and Health: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa”, with Weizhe Weng 

• “Water Quality and Infrastructure impacts in India”, with Neha Agrawal 

• “Infant Deaths and Early Childhood Malnutrition: Mortality Selection in Odisha, India”, with Allie Aird (SUNY Geneseo student)

• "Pathways between Trade and Child Health: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa"