Publications

Economics Journals

• Cash Transfers, Food Prices, and Nutrition Impacts on Ineligible Children

  • Forthcoming at the Review of Economics and Statistics; with Deon Filmer, Jed Friedman, and Junko Onishi

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    • Data for replication can be found here.

    • Coverage: VoxDev; NPR; ReliefWeb; The New Humanitarian; Development Pathways

• Inequality in the Quality of Health Services: Wealth, Content of Care, and Price of Antenatal Consultations in the Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Economic Development and Cultural Change 70(3); with Gunther Fink and Gil Shapira

• The Social Lives of Married Women: Peer Effects in Female Autonomy and Children's Food Consumption

  • Journal of Development Economics 140: 26-43; with Kathy Baylis

    • Coverage: The Print India; Development Impact; Let's Talk Development; KCP Blog on Let's Talk Development; Alice Evans' blog; She The People

• Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation: Evidence from Cyclone Phailin in Odisha

  • Climatic Change 153(1): 141-164; with Paul Christian, Nethra Palaniswamy, and Vijayendra Rao

• Child Schooling and Child Work in the Presence of a Partial Education Subsidy

  • Journal of Human Resources 54(2): 503-531; with Jacobus de Hoop, Jed Friedman, and Furio Rosati

• Does involvement of local NGOs enhance public service delivery? Cautionary evidence from a malaria-prevention program in India

  • Health Economics 27(1): 172-188; with Ashis Kumar Das and Jed Friedman

• Expanding Horizons: Can Women’s Support Groups Diversify Peer Networks in Rural India?

  • American Journal of Agricultural Economics 95(2): 360-367; with Kathy Baylis.

• Beyond Average Treatment Effects: Distribution of Child Nutrition Outcomes and Program Placement in India's ICDS

  • World Development 39.8 (2011): 1410-1421.

Public Health Journals

• Reviewing the evidence on health financing for effective coverage: do financial incentives work?

• • • BMJ Global Health (2022); with Damien de Walque.

• Why addressing inequality must be central to pandemic preparedness.

• • • BMJ Global Health (2022:); with Sherin Varkey and Sven Neelsen.

• Decentralized facility financing versus performance-based payments in primary health care: A large-scale randomized controlled trial in Nigeria

• • BMC Medicine 19 (2021): 224; with Madhulika Khanna, Benjamin Loevinsohn, Elina Pradhan, Opeyemi Fadeyibi, Kevin McGee, Oluwole Odutolu, Gyorgy Bela Fritsche, Emmanuel Meribole, Christel Vermeersch.

    • Coverage: VoxDev

• Disruptions in Essential Health Services During the First Five Months of COVID-19: Analysis of Facility-Reported Service Volumes in Eight Sub-Saharan African Countries

  • Health Policy and Planning 36(7):1140-1151; with Gil Shapira, Tashrik Ahmed, et al.

    • Coverage: WB Global Financing Facility

• A Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines Reduces Severe Stunting

  • The Journal of Nutrition 146(9): 1793-1800; with Harold Alderman, Jed Friedman, Deon Filmer, Junko Onishi and Jorge Avalos.

• Strengthening malaria service delivery through supportive supervision and community mobilization in an endemic Indian setting: an evaluation of nested delivery models

  • Malaria Journal 13:482; with Ashis Kumar Das, Jed Friedman, GNV Ramana, RK Das Gupta, MM Pradhan and Ramesh Govindaraj.