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)
The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times (with Yoonyoung Cho) [World Bank Working Paper]
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)