Publications
Long-term and Intergenerational Effects of Education: Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia (with Daniel Halim and Marieke Kleemans), Economic Journal, 2023, 133(650): 582-612
First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War (with Sonia Bhalotra, Marinella Leone, and Una Osili), Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58(2): 488-531
Detailed Geographic Information, Conflict Exposure, and Health Impacts (with German Caruso and Harsha Thirumurthy), World Development, 2022, 155: 105890. (Previous title: Medium-Term Health Impacts of Shocks Experienced In Utero and After Birth: Evidence from Detailed Geographic Information on War Exposure)
Climate Change, Conflict, and Children, Future of Children, 2016, 26(1): 51-71. [Abstract]
Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency: Agricultural Production in Polygynous Households (with Joyce Chen and Charity Moore), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64(4): 661-696. [Download paper] [Abstract]
Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso (with Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga), Invited paper. NBER African Successes: Human Capital, volume 2. Editors, Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David Weil. University of Chicago Press, 2016 [Download paper] [Abstract]
Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict (with Leonardo Lucchetti and Harsha Thirumurthy), Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99(2): 330-340. [Download paper] [Abstract]
Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso (with Emilie Bagby, Damien de Walque, and Harounan Kazianga), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61(1): 157-186. [Download paper] [Abstract]
War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War (with Sonia Bhalotra, Marinella Leone, and Una Osili), American Economic Review (Papers & Proceedings), 2012, 102(3): 273-277. [Download paper] [Abstract]
Productive Efficiency and the Scope for Cooperation in Polygynous Households, (with Joyce Chen and Charity Moore), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2012, 94(2): 395-401. [Download paper]
Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias among the Children of Immigrants, (with Ilana Redstone Akresh), Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46(3): 647-667. [Download paper] [Abstract]
Civil War, Crop Failure, and Child Stunting in Rwanda, (with Philip Verwimp and Tom Bundervoet), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59(4): 777-810. (Previous title: Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children) [Download paper] [Abstract]
Flexibility of Household Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso, Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4): 976-997. (Previous title: Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso) [Download paper] [Abstract]
Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi, (with Philip Verwimp and Tom Bundervoet), Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(2): 536-563. [Download paper] [Abstract]
Policy papers
The Impact of Violent Conflict on Child Health: What are the Channels? (with Philip Verwimp and Tom Bundervoet), 2010, MICROCON Policy Briefing No. 6