Publications
Economics Journals
Son Preference and its Impact on Family Size and Domestic Violence Against Mothers in South Asia. The Journal of Development Studies, 2025.
Urban Agglomerations and Wage and Self-employment Jobs in Ethiopia (with Shohei Nakamura). The Journal of Development Studies, 2022.
Factors Associated with Harvest and Postharvest Loss among Soybean Farmers in Western Paraná State, Brazil (with Mary Arends-Kuenning, Marcos Garcias, Pery Francisco Assis Shikida, and Gisele Esser Romani). Food Policy, 2022.
Gender, Education, and Farm Succession in Western Paraná State, Brazil (with Mary Arends-Kuenning, Marcos Garcias, Gisele Esser Romani, and Pery Francisco Assis Shikida). Land Use Policy, 2021.
Parental Absence and Agency: The Household Characteristics of Hazardous Forms of Child Labour in Nepal. Journal of International Development, 2018.
Health and Education Journals
Factors Associated with Knowledge and Use of Home Pregnancy Test Kits in Uganda (with Ryoko Sato, and Rebecca Thornton). PLOS Global Public Health, 2023.
Effect of Pregnancy Tests on Demand for Family Planning: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda (with Ryoko Sato, and Rebecca Thornton). Reproductive Health, 2021.
Potential Effects of COVID-19 School Closures on Foundational Skills and Country Responses for Mitigating Learning Loss (with Carolina Alban Conto, Spogmai Akseer, Thomas Dreesen, Suguru Mizunoya, and Annika Rigole. International Journal of Educational Development, 2021.
Working Papers
The Impact of Large-Scale Free Prescription Glasses Distribution on the Academic Achievement of Children (with Michael Kremer, and Pablo Peña).
Who Walks for Water? Water Consumption and Labor Supply Response to Rainfall Scarcity in Uganda.
Contributions to World Bank Group, ATLAS of Sustainable Development Goals 2023
Community Monitoring Improves Public Service Provision at Scale: Experimental Evidence from a Child Development Program in Nicaragua (with Florencia Lopez Boo, and Jane Leer). Revision requested from World Bank Economic Review.
The Dynamic Relationship between Migration, Family Planning, and Fertility in Nepal (with Rebecca Thornton, and Dirgha Ghimire).
Water Treatment and E. Coli in Drinking Water: Household Responses to (Invisible) Water Quality Risks (with Sujey Soori).
In-line chlorination for drinking water in rural Odisha, India: A pilot randomized controlled trial (with Jeremy Lowe, Vaishnavi Prathap, Sidhartha Giri, Krushna Sahoo, Michael Kremer, Elisa Maffioli, and Amy Pickering).
Grants
GiveWell in 2023 ($1,800,000)
Co-PI with Michael Kremer, Pascaline Dupas, and Elisa Maffioli for "Water Treatment Study.''
J-PAL Innovation in Government Initiative in 2022 ($189,108)
Co-PI with Michael Kremer, Pascaline Dupas, and Elisa Maffioli for “Scaling up coupons for safe water treatment in Kenya.”
Policy Reports and Popular Press
Parental Engagement in Children’s Learning (with Matt Brossard, Manuel Cardoso, Sakshi Mishra, Suguru Mizunoya, and Nicolas Reuge). Innocenti Research Briefs no. 2020-09, UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, Florence, 2020.
Promising Practices for Equitable Remote Learning: Emerging Lessons from COVID-19 Education Responses in 127 Countries (with Thomas Dreesen, Spogmai Akseer, Matt Brossard, Pragya Dewan, Juan-Pablo Giraldo, Suguru Mizunoya, and Javier Santiago Ortiz. Innocenti Research Briefs no. 2020-10, UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, Florence, 2020.
Labor-Saving Farm Technology in Nepal (with Rajendra Ghimire). Policy Brief 9. Institute for Social and Environmental Research-Nepal, 2017.
Facilitating Local Nepali Investment Opportunities using Remittance (with Indra Chaudhary) Policy Brief 10. Institute for Social and Environmental Research-Nepal, 2017.
Can We Count on Parents to Help their Children Learn at Home? (with Matt Brossard, Manuel Cardoso, Sakshi Mishra, Suguru Mizunoya, and Nicolas Reuge. Blog series targeted toward exploring the impact of COVID-19 on education. UNICEF. 8 May. 2020.
Lessons from COVID-19: Getting Remote Learning Right (with Thomas Dreesen, Matt Brossard, Spogmai Akseer, Javier Santiago Ortiz, Pragya Dewan, Juan-Pablo Giraldo, and Suguru Mizunoya) Blog series targeted toward exploring the impact of COVID-19 on education. UNICEF. 13 May, 2020.
Where do Children Working in Hazardous Environments Come From? Primeros Pasos, Early Childhood Development. Inter-American Development Bank. 27 Aug, 2018.