Research
Published/Forthcoming Papers
Economics Journals
Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment (with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo) [Accepted Manuscript] [NBER Working paper] [VoxDev article] [GlobalDev blog]
The Economic Journal, 134(657): 1-22, January 2024
The Health Costs of Dirty Energy: Evidence from the Capacity Market in Colombia (with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, and Nicolas Torres) [Accepted Manuscript]
Journal of Development Economics, 163: 103116, September 2023
Female Labor Market Conditions and Gender Gaps in Aspirations (with Emiko Usui) [open access] [IZA Discussion Paper] [IZA World of Labor]
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 211: 165-187, July 2023
The Gender Gap Among Top Business Executives (with Wolfgang Keller and Will Olney) [Accepted Manuscript] [NBER Working Paper]
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 211: 270-286, July 2023
Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar (with Mari Tanaka) [open access] [IZA Discussion Paper] [GlobalDev blog]
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 71(2): 519-565, January 2023
Protecting Infants from Natural Disasters: The Case of Vitamin A Supplementation and a Tornado in Bangladesh (with Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Parul Christian, Alain Labrique, Jonathan Sugimoto, Abu Ahmed Shamim, and Keith P. West, Jr.) [Accepted Manuscript]
Journal of Development Economics, 158: 102914, September 2022
Expectations, Wage Hikes, and Worker Voice: (with Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham) [Accepted Manuscript] [NBER Working Paper] [HBR article]
The Economic Journal, 132(645): 1978-1993, July 2022
Persuasive agenda-setting: Rodrigo Duterte's inauguration speech and drugs in the Philippines (with Michael Jetter) [Accepted Manuscript] [IZA Discussion Paper]
Journal of Development Economics, 156:102843 , May 2022
Expanding Health Insurance for the Elderly of the Philippines (with Michael Abrigo and Tim Halliday) [Accepted Manuscript] [IZA Discussion Paper] [UH Working Paper]
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 37(3): 500-520, April/May 2022
The Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Eliminating University Tuition in Ecuador (with Ivan Rivadeneyra) [Accepted Manuscript] [IZA Discussion Paper] [UH Working Paper]
Journal of Public Economics, 196: 104383, April 2021
Pollution, Ability, and Gender-Specific Investment Responses to Shocks [Accepted Manuscript] [CINCH Working paper]
Journal of the European Economic Association, 19(1): 580-619, February 2021
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 69(1): 173-212, October 2020
When It Rains It Pours: The Long-Run Economic Impacts of Salt Iodization in the United States (with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Steve Bednar, Quynh Nguyen, and Anant Nyshadham) [Accepted Manuscript] [NBER Working paper]
Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(2): 395-407 , May 2020
Adjusting for Heterogeneous Response Thresholds in Cross-Country Comparisons of Self-Reported Health
The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 10: 1-20, December 2017
Public Health/Interdisciplinary Journals
Replacing Medicaid with an Imperfect Substitute: Implications for Health Inequality (with Randall Akee and Tim Halliday)
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 9 (4) 61-83, September 2023
Compact for care: how the Affordable Care Act marketplaces fell short for a vulnerable population in Hawaii (with Josh Ng Kamstra and Tim Halliday) [open access]
BMJ Global Health, 6(11): e007701, 2021
The Mortality Effects of Reduced Medicaid Coverage Among International Migrants in Hawaii: 2012–2018 (with Tetine Sentell, Randall Q. Akee, Alvin Onaka, Timothy J. Halliday, and Brian Horiuchi)
American Journal of Public Health, 110(8): 1205-1207, August 2020
Demography 53(2): 295-323, April 2016.
Working Papers
Sotto Voce: The Impacts of Technology to Enhance Worker Voice (with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Smit Gade, and Anant Nyshadham)
Revise & Resubmit at The Economic Journal
Learning and Selection in the Sorting of Households Across Sectors (with Jean-Francois Gauthier and Anant Nyshadham)
Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling Decisions, and Export Manufacturing (with Joaquim Vidiella-Martin) [IZA Discussion Paper] [VoxDev article]
Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net (with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Meltem Daysal, Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, and Herdis Steingrimsdottir) [IZA Discussion Paper] [NBER Working Paper]
The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times (with Yoonyoung Cho) [World Bank Working Paper]
The Intergenerational Health Effects of Child Marriage Bans (with Dung D. Le, Yoko Ibuka, and Rei Goto)
In Progress
Call and Response: The Business Impacts of Systems to Improve Worker Voice (with Achyuta Adhvaryu, Smit Gade, and Anant Nyshadham)
An Examination of Intergenerational Mobility in the Philippines (with Cara Tan)