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Job displacement, unemployment benefits and domestic violence. CEPR DP 16350 2021. With D Britto, P Pinotti, B Sampaio. R&R, Review of Economic Studies.
Women’s labour force participation and the distribution of the gender wage gap. R&R, Journal of Political Economy. With M Fernandez-Sierra and F Wang.
Shadows of the Captain of the Men of Death: Early life health, human capital investment and institutions. Second R&R, Journal of Political Economy. With D Clarke, A Venkataramani.
Maternal mortality and women’s political participation. CEPR Working Paper April 2021. R&R, Journal of the European Economic Association. With With D Clarke, J Gomes, A Venkataramani.
Fertility, health endowments and returns to human capital: Quasi experimental evidence from 20th century America. IZA DP 11716. July 2018, R&R, Journal of the European Economic Association. With A Venkataramani, S Walther.
Women legislators and economic performance. R&R, Journal of Economic Growth. With T Baskaran, B Min, and Y Uppal.
Maternal depression and children’s socioemotional and cognitive development- analysis of mechanisms. With V Baranov, P Biroli, S Dilek, J Maselko. Selected for the Journal of Human Resources special issue on Child Mental Health
Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings: Evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden. Review of Economics and Statistics. Forthcoming. With M Karlsson, T Nilsson, N Schwarz.
Leader identity and coordination. Review of Economics and Statistics. Forthcoming. With I Clots-Figueras, L Iyer, J Vecci.
On the quantity and quality of girls: New evidence on fertility and parental investments. The Economic Journal. Volume 132, Issue 641, January 2022. With S Anukriti and HF Tam.
Urban water disinfection and mortality decline in lower-income countries. American Economic Journal- Economic Policy. November 2021. With A Díaz-Cayeros, A. Miranda, Grant Miller, A Venkataramani.
First and second generation impacts of the Biafran war. Journal of Human Resources. Forthcoming. With R Akresh, M Leone, U Osili.
Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity. Journal of Development Economics. With I Clots-Figueras and L Iyer.
The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico: Supply vs demand factors. World Development. Forthcoming.
Intimate partner violence: The influence of job opportunities for men and women. The World Bank Economic Review, Vol 35(2), May 2021, Pages 461–479. With U Kambhampati, S Rawlings, Z Siddique.
Maternal depression, women's empowerment, and parental investment: Evidence from a randomized control trial. American Economic Review, Vol. 110, Issue 3, March 2020. With V Baranov, P Biroli, J Maselko.
The twin instrument: Fertility and human capital investment. Journal of the European Economic Association, Issue 18-6, December 2020. With D Clarke.
The price of gold: Dowry and death in India. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 143, March 2020. With A Chakravarty and S Gulesci.
Women’s inheritance rights and the preference for sons. Journal of Development Economics, Vol 146, Issue C, August 2020, 102275. With S Roy and R Brule.
Twin births and maternal condition. Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 101, No. 5, pp. 853–864, December 2019. With D Clarke.
Property rights and gender bias: Evidence from land reform in West Bengal. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(2): 1-34, April 2019. With A Chakravarty, D Mookherjee, F Pino.
Pathbreakers: Women’s electoral success and future political participation. Economic Journal, Volume 128, Issue 613, pages 1844-1878, August 2018. With I Clots-Figueras and L Iyer.
Infant health and longevity: Evidence from a historical intervention in Sweden. Journal of the European Economic Association, October 2017. With M Karlsson and T Nilsson.
Effects of a maternal psychosocial intervention on hair derived biomarkers pf HPA axis function in mothers and children in rural Pakistan. Social Science and Medicine- Mental Health. Vol. 2, December 2022. With V Baranov, A Frost, et al. Published online Mar 2022: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560322000226?via%3Dihub100082.
The right to health in practice: Evidence from Brazil’s Family Health Programme. Human Rights Quarterly, February 2022. With P Hunt and C Williams.
Effectiveness of a peer-delivered psychosocial intervention for maternal depression on maternal and child outcomes at 3 years: Results from a cluster randomized trial and a healthy comparison cohort. The Lancet Psychiatry 2020: 7. Pages 775-87. With J Maselko, S. Sikander, et al.
Maternal depression in rural Pakistan: The protective associations with cultural postpartum practices. BMC Public Health (Springer Nature), 20: 68, 15 Jan 2020. With K. LeMasters, et al.
Psychosocial determinants of sustained maternal functional impairment: longitudinal findings from a pregnancy-birth cohort study in rural Pakistan. PLOS ONE, 19 Nov 2019. With A Hagaman et al.
Longitudinal effects of perinatal social support on maternal depression: A marginal structural modelling approach. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Forthcoming, 2021.
Father involvement in the first year of life: Associations with maternal mental health and child development outcomes in rural Pakistan. Social Science & Medicine, 237, 2019. With J Maselko et al.
Socioeconomic status indicators and common mental disorders: Evidence from a study of prenatal depression in Pakistan. Social Science and Medicine: Population Health, 2018; 4; 1-19. With J Maselko, et al.
Human capital and productivity benefits of early childhood nutritional interventions. Disease Control Priorities (3rd Ed.): Volume 8, ed D. Bundy, et al. Chapter 27. Washington, DC: World Bank. 2017. With A. Nandi, J. Behrman, A. Deolalikar, R. Laxminarayan.
This paper is part also of: Bundy AP, de Silva N, Horton S, Patton GC, Schultz L, Jamison DT, for the Disease Control Priorities-3 Child and Adolescent Health and Development Authors Group (includes Bhalotra, S). (2017). "Investment in child and adolescent health and development: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition". Lancet. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32417-0
Child mental health and maternal depression history in Pakistan. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 51 (1): 49-62, August 2018. With J. Maselko, J, S. Sikander, et al.
Impact of an early perinatal depression intervention on longer-term child development. Lancet Psychiatry, 2(7): 609-617, 3 June 2015. With J. Maselko, J, S. Sikander, et al.
The right tail and the right tale: Women and skill in Mexico. Research in Labor Economics issue 41 “Gender Convergence in the Labor Market”, edited by SW Polachek, K Tatsiramos, KF Zimmermann. February 2015. With M. Fernandez-Sierra and A. Venkataramani.
Health and the political agency of women. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 6(2): 164-97. May 2014. With I. Clots-Figueras.
Religion, politician identity and development outcomes: Evidence from India. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol 104(c), pp 4-17, 2015. With I Clots-Figueras, G Cassan, and Iyer L.
Ethical and economic perspectives on global health interventions. The Handbook of Global Health Policy, Chapter 11. Ed G Brown and G Yamey. Wiley Blackwell. May 2014. With T Pogge.
Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries. Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2013. With S. Rawlings.
War and stature: Growing up during the Nigerian Civil War. American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, vol. 102(3), pages 273-77, May 2012. With R Akresh, M. Leone and U. Osili
Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality? Journal of Public Economics, April, 95 (3-4), 286-299, 2011. With S. Rawlings.
Poverty and survival. Journal of Development Studies, 48(2): 145-167, February 2012.
The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India. Journal of Health Economics, 29(2), pp. 191-204. 2010. With C. Valente and A. Van Soest.
Fatal fluctuations: Cyclicality in infant mortality in India. Journal of Development Economics, 93(1), pp. 7-19, September 2010.
Birth-spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India: Dynamics, frailty, and fecundity. Journal of Econometrics, 143 (2), pp. 274-290, 2008. With A. Van Soest.
Linked survival prospects of siblings: Evidence for India. Population Studies, 62(2), 171-190, 2008.
Sibling data in the demographic & health surveys. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 63(48), 2008.
Spending to save? State health expenditure and infant mortality. Health Economics, 16(9), 2007.
Is child work necessary? Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 69(1): 29-56, 2007.
Sibling death clustering in India: State dependence vs unobserved heterogeneity. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 169(4): 829-848, 2006. With W. Arulampalam.
Near rationality in wage-Setting. Applied Economics, 38 (21): 2513-21, 2006.
Child farm labour: The wealth paradox. World Bank Economic Review, 17(2): 197-227, 2003. With C. Heady.
Growth and welfare provisioning: Lessons from the English poor law? Journal of International Development, 13(7): 1083-1096, 2001.
Assessing the impact of micro-credit: A Zambian case study. Journal of Development Studies, 37(4): 81-100, 2001. With J Copestake and S. Johnson.
Changes in utilization and productivity in a deregulating economy. Journal of Development Economics, 57(2): 391-420, 1998.
Intrahousehold resource allocation in rural Pakistan: A semiparametric analysis. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5): 463-480, 1998. With C. Attfield.
The puzzle of jobless growth in Indian manufacturing. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 40(1): 5-32. 1998.
Health and labour market impacts of twin birth: Evidence from an IVF mandate in Sweden. With M Palme, H Muhlrad, and D Clarke. IZA Working Paper January 2022
Dynamic impacts of lockdown on domestic violence: Evidence from multiple policy shifts in Chile. UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2021/189, December 2021 (and IZA WP Jan 2022)
The right to health and the health effects of denials. IZA DP No. 14685, August 2021. With M F-Sierra.
US Presidential party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortality. IZA DP 14915 and CAGE Warwick Policy Brief 35/2022.
Evaluation of walk-in centres on hospital performance and population health outcomes: Evidence from administrative geocoded data for Rio. IZA WP 13992, Dec 2020. With L Nunes and Rudi Rocha.
Maternal investments in children: The role of expected effort and returns. IZA WP 13056, March 2020. Under revision. With A Delavande, P Font, and J Maselko.
Occupational flexibility and the graduate gender wage gap in the UK. ISER WP 2021-05, July 2021. With L. Benny and M Fernandez.
Valuing health. Opinion piece. With N Modi, F Bustreo, M Hanson.
The impact of a personalised blood pressure warning on health behaviours. ISER WP 2020-02, February 2020. Under revision. With A Delavande, P Fisher, and J James.
Effects of a maternal psychosocial intervention on hair derived biomarkers of HPA axis function in mothers and children in rural Pakistan. With V Baranov, A. Frost et al.
Productivity effects of dengue in Brazil. ISER WP 2019-04, 2019. Revised 2021. With G Facchini, A Menezes, and R Rocha.
Gender, crime, and punishment: Evidence from women police stations in India. Submitted. IZA Working Paper, April 2021. With S Amaral and N Prakash.
Population sex ratios and crime against women: Long-run effects of sex-selection. ISER WP 2018. Under revision. With S Amaral.
Does universalization of health work? Evidence from health systems restructuring and expansion in Brazil. IZA Discussion Paper 12111, February 2019. Under revision. With R Rocha, and R Soares.
Cognitive development and infectious disease: Gender differences in investments and outcomes. IZA DP 7833. Dec 2013. Revision with new data, 2020. With R Brown and A. Venkataramani.
Hindu-Muslim violence in India 1950-2010: an update of the Varshney-Wilkinson dataset on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Permanent mimeo. With N Kaysser, I Clots-Figueras, and L Iyer.
Adolescent antidepressant use and school performance- evidence from Danish administrative data. With M Daysal, M Trandafir and N Vestergård Lydiksen
Gender, debate and rebellion in the UK House of Commons. With M F-Sierra
Civil conflict and minority representation. With I Clots and L Iyer
Women police stations, law enforcement and domestic violence in Brazil: Evidence from administrative data. With D Britto, B Carillo, and B Sampaio
Workplace sexual harassment. With D Britto and B Sampaio
Maternal mortality and women’s education. With D Clarke
Where have all the young girls gone? With T Cochrane and E Tam (updated with new data)
The demographic transition. Evidence from two centuries of Norwegian data. With P Fisher
Sons, daughters and parental behaviour in the UK. With D. Brown and A Nazrova
The intergenerational transmission of education: The role of user fees. With S Klasen, K Harttgen
Women and the Economy, Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia, 2021. With L Iyer. Jan 2022
Editorial for the British Medical Journal on maternity and paternity leave in the UK. With Neena Modi (Professor of Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College) and Harini Iyenger (Lawyer, member of the Women’s Equality Party).
Experiments on violence against women. Handbook of Experimental Development Economics. Summer 2022
Fertility and female labor force participation. Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer Nature. With D Clarke and S Walther. Online, July 2021.
On the analysis of twins. Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer Nature. With D Clarke. January 2022
Women politicians and public health. Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems, Fall 2022. Editors: Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati. With Mariana Lopes da Fonseca. March 2022
Violence against women, Oxford Research Encyclopaedia- Economics series, December 2022.