Masculinity Norms and Their Economic Consequences (with Ieda Matavelli, Ralph de Haas, and Pauline Grosjean)
Prepared for the Annual Review of Economics
Masculinity Around the World (with Ieda Matavelli, Ralph de Haas, and Pauline Grosjean)
2024 version (LiTS countries only)
Maternal Mental Health Responses to COVID-19 Shocks and Uncertainty in Rural Pakistan (with Michelle Escobar Carias, Joanna Maselko, Pietro Biroli, and Sonia Bhalotra). AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024.
Trajectories of Early Childhood Skill Development and Maternal Mental Health (with Dilek Sevim, Sonia Bhalotra, Joanna Maselko, and Pietro Biroli). Journal of Human Resources, 2024.
Men. Male-biased Sex Ratios and Masculinity Norms: Evidence from Australia’s Colonial Past (with Ralph de Haas and Pauline Grosjean) Journal of Economic Growth, 2023.
Popular writing: VoxEU, The Long Run (EHS Blog)
Snapshot (University of Melbourne)
The impact of COVID-related economic shocks on household mental health in Pakistan (with Fatima Jamal Khan, Pauline Grosjean, and Sarah Walker) Health Economics, 2022.
Queens of the Desert: Convictism and Marital Attitudes across Australia (with Ralph de Haas and Pauline Grosjean) AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020.
Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial (with Sonia Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli, and Joanna Maselko) American Economic Review, 2020.
Media and Blog posts: The Guardian. The Economist. AER Research Highlights. World Bank Development Impact Blog. UniMelb Pursuit. Econimate Video.
More information on the long term follow-up of the Thinking Healthy Programme
Can Positive Psychology Improve Psychological Well-being? Experimental Evidence from Kenya (with Johannes Haushofer and Chaning Jang) Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020.
Theoretical Underpinnings and Meta-analysis of Cash Transfers and Impacts on Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (with Lisa Cameron, Diana Contreras-Suarez and Claire Thibout) Journal of Development Studies, 2020.
The Impact of AIDS Treatment on Savings and Human Capital Investment in Malawi (with Hans-Peter Kohler). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018.
The Indirect Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy: Mortality Risk, Mental Health, and HIV-Negative Labor (with Daniel Bennett and Hans-Peter Kohler) Journal of Health Economics, 2015.
Stressful life events, intimate partner violence, and perceived stress in the postpartum period: longitudinal findings in rural Pakistan (with Haight, S.,..Maselko, J.) Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2022.
Effects of a maternal psychosocial intervention on hair derived biomarkers of HPA axis function in mothers and children in rural Pakistan (with Frost, A. Hagaman, A., Simmons, J., Manzoor, S., Bhalotra, S., Biroli, P., Rahman, A., Sikander, S., Maselko, J.) Social Science and Medicine - Mental Health, 2022.
Effectiveness of a peer-delivered, psychosocial intervention on maternal depression and child development at 3 years postnatal: a cluster randomised trial in Pakistan (with Joanna Maselko, Siham Sikander, et al.) The Lancet Psychiatry, 2020.
Association of maternal and home adversities with infant hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis biomarkers at one year: Observational analysis from children in rural Pakistan. (with Hagaman, A., Chung, E., LeMasters, K., Andrabi, N., Bates, L., … Maselko, J. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2020.
The contribution of grandmother involvement to child growth and development: an observational study in rural Pakistan (with Esther Chung, Ashley Hagaman, … Joanna Maselko) BMJ Global Health, 2020.
Treatment as insurance: HIV antiretroviral therapy offers financial risk protection in Malawi (with Sarah Dickerson, Jacob Bor, and Jeremy Barofsky) Health Policy and Planning, 2020.
Psychosocial determinants of sustained maternal functional impairment: Longitudinal findings from a pregnancy-birth cohort study in rural Pakistan (with Ashley Hagaman, John A. Gallis, Sonia Bhalotra, Elizabeth L. Turner, Siham Sikander, and Joanna Maselko). PLOS ONE, 2019.
Can Psychological Interventions Provide Resilience to Negative Shocks? (with Michelle Escobar Carias, Sonia Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli, and Joanna Maselko) - please email for draft
Long-term Reductions in Depression and Intimate Partner Violence Over 8 Years: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (with Michelle Escobar Carias, Lisa Bates, Sonia Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli, Ashley Hagaman, Sarah Haight and Joanna Maselko) - please email for draft
The Economic and Human Capital Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy at Scale in Malawi (with Jeremy Barofsky, Huan Wang, and Sarah Dickerson) - please email for draft
Bachpan Cohort Study: Maternal depression, parental investment, and child development
Measurement error in agricultural production (with Joe Vecci, Prakashan Veettil, Yashodha)
Impact of large cash transfers in Timor Leste (with Lisa Cameron, Diana Contreras-Suarez and Brett Inder)
Child human capital production: A field experiment in Timor Leste (with Lisa Cameron, Diana Contreras-Suarez, Alejandrina Cristia, Adeline Delavande, Pauline Grosjean, and Sarah Walker)
Father Involvement and Family Well-Being (with Pietro Biroli, Anne Brenøe, and Xiaoyue Shan)
We conduct a field experiment in a large maternity hospital in Shanghai to study early childhood investment decisions and parental well-being. This study is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Maternal Beliefs, Mental Health, and Economic Resources on Human Capital Accumulation in Early Life (with Shyamal Chowdhury and Valentina Duque)