Health

1.1 Mental Health

1. Adolescent antidepressant use and school performance- evidence from Danish administrative data. With M Daysal, M Trandafir. CAGE WP 766

2. Does treating depression reduce intimate partner violence? With V Baranov, P Biroli, ME Carías, J Maselko, S Sikander. Mimeo

3. Mental models of mental health. With F Capozza, V Moghani. In progress

4. Do psychotherapeutic interventions provide resilience to future negative shocks? With V Baranov, P Biroli, ME Carías, J Maselko. Mimeo

5. The intergenerational transmission of mental health- evidence from Danish administrative data. With M Daysal, J Sogaard, M Trandafir. In progress

6. Maternal investments in children: The role of expected effort and returns. With A Delavande, P Font, J Maselko. The Economic Journal, April 2025.

7. Maternal mental health responses to COVID-19 shocks and uncertainty in rural Pakistan. With ME Carias, V Baranov, J Maselko, P Biroli. AEA Papers and Proceedings 2024, 114: 1–6

8. Trajectories of early childhood skill development and maternal mental health. With D Sevim, V Baranov, J Maselko, P Biroli. Journal of Human Resources, April 2024, 59(S) S365-S401

9. Maternal depression, women's empowerment, and parental investment: Evidence from a randomized control trial. With V Baranov, P Biroli, J Maselko. American Economic Review, 2020, 110(3), 824-859

- Several papers in public health journals, see Additional Materials at the end of my regular CV

1.2. Reproductive health and fertility

10. The global gag rule and maternal mortality. With D Clarke, Y Xun

11. Health and labour market impacts of twin birth: Evidence from an IVF mandate in Sweden. With M Palme, H Muhlrad, and D Clarke. IZA WP 14990, 2022. Revised 2024.

12. Women and the economy. With L Iyer. Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia, 2024

13. Maternal mortality and women’s political participation. With D Clarke, J Gomes, A Venkataramani. Journal of the European Economic Association Volume 21(5), 2023

14. Fertility, health endowments and returns to human capital: Quasi experimental evidence from 20th century America. With A Venkataramani, S Walther. Journal of the European Economic Association 21.4, 2023.

15. Women politicians and public health. With Mariana Lopes da Fonseca. Editors: A Batinti, J Costa-Font and G Turati. Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems, July 2023.

16. The analysis of twins. Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer Nature. With D Clarke. Published 19 May 2023

17. US Presidential party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortality. IZA DP 14915. Also see CAGE Warwick Policy Brief 35/2022.

18. On the quantity and quality of girls: New evidence on fertility and parental investments. With S Anukriti and HF Tam. The Economic Journal. Volume 132, Issue 641, January 2022.

19. Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity. With I Clots-Figueras and L Iyer. Journal of Development Economics 153: 102746, November 2021.

20. The twin instrument: Fertility and human capital investment. With D Clarke. Journal of the European Economic Association, Issue 18-6, December 2020.

21. Women’s inheritance rights and the preference for sons. With S Roy and R Brule. Journal of Development Economics, Vol 146, Issue C, August 2020, 102275.

22. The price of gold: Dowry and death in India. With A Chakravarty and S Gulesci. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 143, March 2020.

23. Does universalization of health work? Evidence from health systems restructuring and expansion in Brazil. IZA DP 12111, 2019. Under revision. With R Rocha, and R Soares

24. Twin births and maternal condition. With D Clarke. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5): 853–864.

25. Property rights and gender bias: Evidence from land reform in West Bengal. With A Chakravarty, D Mookherjee, F Pino. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(2), April 2019

26. Population sex ratios and crime against women: Long-run effects of sex-selection. ISER WP 2018 With S Amaral

27. Infant health and longevity: Evidence from a historical intervention in Sweden. With M Karlsson and T Nilsson. Journal of the European Economic Association, October 2017.

28. Fatal fluctuations: Cyclicality in infant mortality in India. Journal of Development Economics, 2010

29. Birth-spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India: Dynamics, frailty, and fecundity. With A. Van Soest. Journal of Econometrics, 143 (2), pp. 274-290, 2008

30. Where have all the young girls gone? With T Cochrane. IZA WP, 2010.

1.3. Child health

31. Shadows of the Captain of the Men of Death: Early life health, human capital investment and institutions. With D Clarke, A Venkataramani. Second R&R, Journal of Political Economy

32. Racial gaps in earnings in the United States: the role of complementarity between endowments and opportunities. With D Clarke and A Venkataramani

33. Health and labour market impacts of twin birth: Evidence from an IVF mandate in Sweden. With M Palme, H Muhlrad, and D Clarke. IZA WP 14990, 2022. Revising 2024.

34. Fertility, health endowments and returns to human capital: Quasi experimental evidence from 20th century America. With A Venkataramani, S Walther. Journal of the European Economic Association 21.4, 2023.

35. Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings: Evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden. With M Karlsson, T Nilsson, N Schwarz. The Review of Economics and Statistics. Vol. 104 (6), 14 November 2022, 1138-1156.

36. On the quantity and quality of girls: New evidence on fertility and parental investments. With S Anukriti and HF Tam. The Economic Journal. Volume 132, Issue 641, January 2022.

37. Urban water disinfection and mortality decline in lower-income countries. With A Díaz-Cayeros, A. Miranda, G Miller, A Venkataramani. American Economic Journal- Economic Policy.  November 2021.

38. Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity. With I Clots-Figueras and L Iyer. Journal of Development Economics 153: 102746, November 2021.

39. The twin instrument: Fertility and human capital investment. With D Clarke. Journal of the European Economic Association, Issue 18-6, December 2020.

40. The price of gold: Dowry and death in India. With A Chakravarty and S Gulesci. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 143, March 2020.

41. Women’s inheritance rights and the preference for sons. With S Roy and R Brule. Journal of Development Economics, Vol 146, Issue C, August 2020, 102275.

42. Twin births and maternal condition. With D Clarke. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5): 853–864.

43. Human capital and productivity benefits of early childhood nutritional interventions. With A. Nandi, J. Behrman, A. Deolalikar, R. Laxminarayan. Disease Control Priorities (3rd Ed.): Volume 8, ed D. Bundy, et al. Chapter 27. Washington, DC: World Bank. 2017.  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". The Lancet.

44. Infant health and longevity: Evidence from a historical intervention in Sweden. With M Karlsson and T Nilsson. Journal of the European Economic Association, October 2017.

45. Health and the political agency of women. With I. Clots-Figueras. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 6(2): 164-97. May 2014

46. Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries. With S. Rawlings. Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2013

47. Cognitive development and infectious disease. IZA DP 7833, 2013. Revised with new data. With R Brown and A. Venkataramani

48. Poverty and survival. Journal of Development Studies, 48(2), February 2012

49. Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality? With S. Rawlings. Journal of Public Economics, April, 95 (3-4), 2011

50. The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India. With C. Valente and A. Van Soest. Journal of Health Economics, 29(2), 2010

51. Where have all the young girls gone? With T Cochrane. IZA WP, 2010.

52. Fatal fluctuations: Cyclicality in infant mortality in India. Journal of Development Economics, 2010

53. Birth-spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India: Dynamics, frailty, and fecundity. With A. Van Soest. Journal of Econometrics, 143 (2), pp. 274-290, 2008

54. Links Between Childhood Mortality and Economic Growth and Their Implications For the Millennium Development Goals in India. Chapter 6, M. McGillivray (Ed.), Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008.

55. Spending to save? State health expenditure and infant mortality. Health Economics, 16(9), 2007

56. Sibling death clustering in India: State dependence vs unobserved heterogeneity. With W. Arulampalam. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 169(4): 829-848, 2006.

1.4. Chronic disease

57. The impact of a personalised blood pressure warning on health behaviours. ISER WP 2020-02, February 2020. With A Delavande, P Fisher, and J James. Under revision.

58. Emergency care centres, hospital performance and population health. R&R. With L Nunes and R Rocha. Journal of Public Economics

59. The right to health and the health effects of denials. IZA WP 14685, 2021. With M F-Sierra. Revised 2024

60. Infant health and longevity: Evidence from a historical intervention in Sweden. With M Karlsson and T Nilsson. Journal of the European Economic Association, October 2017.

1.5. Health policies

61. Emergency care centres, hospital performance and population health. R&R. With L Nunes and R Rocha. Journal of Public Economics

62. Productivity effects of dengue in Brazil. ISER WP 2019-04. With G Facchini, R Rocha. Revising.

63. Nurses under monopsony– evidence from Denmark. With J Kohler, A-S Lassen, S Reif, S Schubert

64. Disability reform- a welfare analysis on Danish administrative data using a policy discontinuity. With A Bartscher, M Jensen, T Jorgensen, S Seitz, F Valder

65. The right to health and the health effects of denials. IZA WP 14685, 2021. With M F-Sierra. Revised 2024

66. Does universalization of health work? Evidence from health systems restructuring and expansion in Brazil. IZA DP 12111, 2019. Under revision. With R Rocha, and R Soares

67. Ethical and economic perspectives on global health interventions. With T Pogge. The Handbook of Global Health Policy, Chapter 11. Ed G Brown and G Yamey. Wiley Blackwell. May 2014.

68. Where have all the young girls gone? With T Cochrane. IZA WP, 2010.

69. Welfare Implications of Fiscal Reform: the Case of Food Subsidies in India, A. Addison and A. Roe (Eds.), Fiscal Policy For Development: Poverty, Reconstruction and Growth, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

70. Growth and welfare provisioning: Lessons from the English poor law? Journal of International Development, 13(7): 1083-1096, 2001.