SELECT PUBLICATIONS
The education gradients in adult female obesity: causal evidence from two African countries. Journal of Development Effectiveness, (2026); 18(1): 28-46. With Naveen Sunder.
Labor demands and gender inequality in education: understanding school enrollment patterns in Zambia. World Development Perspectives, (2025); 40: 100731. With Garima Siwach.
Agricultural Intensification Through Multiple-Season Farming: Effects on Resilience, Food Security and Nutrition. Food Policy (2025); 134: 102833. With Aurelie Harou, MingDa Li.
In Search of the Holy Grail: Post-intervention Effects of an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program in Zambia. Journal of Development Economics (2025); 174: 103454. With Sudhanshu Handa, Gelson Tembo, Luisa Natali.
Exploring Agriculture-Child Nutrition Pathways: Evidence from Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program. Food Security (2024); 16(1): 201-221. With Aurelie Harou, Jessica Fanzo, Cheryl Palm.
Examining the Computation of the Underlying Components of Disability-Adjusted Life Years. Health Policy and Planning (2023); 38(5): 648-654. With Stéphane Verguet.
Routine Child Immunizations in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic. SSM-Population Health (2023); 22: 101383. With Elizabeth Bair, Harsha Thirumurthy.
The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Household Energy Choices. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2023); 105(5): 1426-1457. With Sudhanshu Handa.
Deforestation and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia. Economics and Human Biology (2021); 40: 100943.
Summarized in World Bank blog here.
A Cash Plus Program Reduces Youth Exposure to Physical Violence in Zimbabwe. World Development (2020); 134: 105037. With Gustavo Angeles, Sudhanshu Handa, David Seidenfeld.
More Evidence on the Relationship Between Cash Transfers and Child Height. Journal of Development Effectiveness (2020); 12(1): 14-37. With Sudhanshu Handa, Luisa Natali, David Seidenfeld, Gelson Tembo.
The Broader Economic Value of School Feeding Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Estimating the Multi-Sectoral Returns to Public Health, Human Capital, Social Protection, and the Local Economy. Frontiers in Public Health (2020); 8: 587046. With Stéphane Verguet, Paulina Limasalle, Arif Husain, Carmen Burbano, Lesley Drake, Donald Bundy.
The Impact of Supplementary Immunization Activities on Routine Vaccination Coverage: An Instrumental Variable Analysis in Five Low-Income Countries. PLoS ONE (2019); 14(2): e0212049. With Karen Grépin, Stéphane Helleringer.
Female Land Ownership and Fertility in Nepal. Journal of Development Studies (2018); 54(9): 1698-1715.
The Paradox of Happiness: Health and Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bhutan. Health and Human Rights (2016); 18(1): 193-207. With Benjamin Meier.