Publications

Economics Journals

Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Causal Evidence from Life Skills Programming

• Journal of Human Resources 

• Manisha Shah, Sarah Baird, Jennifer Seager, Benjamin Avuwadah, Joan Hamory, Shwetlena Sabarwal, and Amita Vyas 

• Replication Files

Locking down adolescent hunger: COVID-19 and food security in Bangladesh

• Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 1-26, 2023

• Jennifer Seager, Sarah Baird, Jared Kalow, and Tauseef Salauddin

Gender, Growth Mindset, and Covid-19: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh

• • Jennifer Seager, TM Asaduzzaman, Sarah Baird, Shwetlena Sabarwal, and Salauddin Tauseef

  • Review of Economic Analysis 14(2), 2022

  • Related policy briefs and blogs

- The Gendered Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescents’ Education and School-to- Work Transitions in Bangladesh. 

- Adolescence in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from Bangladesh

- Investing in girls' education in the time of COVID-19

Identifying Psychological Trauma among Syrian Refugee Children for Early Intervention: Analyzing Digitized Drawings using Machine Learning

• • Sarah Baird, Jennifer Seager Rafael Panlilio, Stephanie Smith, and Bruce Wydick

  • Journal of Development Economics 156, 2022

Crimes against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work

• • Lisa Cameron, Jennifer Seager, and Manisha Shah

  • Quarterly Journal of Economics 136(1), 2021

  • Other versions: NBER Working Paper 27846, IZA DP No. 13784

  • Coverage: The Economist, VoxDev, CATO Institute

The ‘Business Climate’ and Economic Inequality

• David Neumark and Jennifer Muz

• Review of Income and Wealth 62(1), 161-180

Public Health Journals

Creating a better post-pandemic future for adolescents with Disabilities

• Sarah Baird, Bassam Abu Hamad, Kifa Baniodeh, Mark Carew, Nimisha Goel, Anas Ismail, Erin Oakley, Jennifer Seager, Tassew Woldehanna, Nicola Jones 

• BMJ 380: e072343 

COVID-19 and the Gendered Impacts on Adolescent Wellbeing: Evidence from a cross-sectional study in Ethiopia, Jordan, and Palestine. 

• Erin Oakley, Shoroq Abuhamad, Jennifer Seager, Benjamin Avuwadah, Joan Hamory, Nicola Jones, Agnieszka Malachowska, Yadete Workneh, Bassam Abu Hamad, and Sarah Baird

• eClinical Medicine 52, 101586, 2022

Intersecting disadvantages for married adolescents:life after marriage pre- and post-COVID-19 in contexts of Displacement

• Sarah Baird, Maureen Murphy, Jennifer Seager, Nicola Jones, Anju Malhotra, Sarah Alheiwidi, Guday Emirie, Sabina Rashid, and Maheen Sultan

• Journal of Adolescent Health 70(3), 2022

Displacement, Violence, and Mental Health: Evidence from Rohingya Adolescents in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

• Katherine O'Connor and Jennifer Seager

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(10), 2021

Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on Rohingya adolescents in Cox's Bazar: A mixed-methods study

• Silvia Guglielmi, Jennifer Seager, Khadija Mitu, Sarah Baird, and Nicola Jones

• Journal of Migration and Health, Vol 1-2, 2020

• Related policy brief: 'People won't die due to the disease; they will die due to hunger': exploring the impacts of COVID-19 in Cox's Bazar

Do Restrictive Gender Attitudes and Norms Influence Physical and Mental Health during Very Young Adolescence? Evidence from Bangladesh and Ethiopia

• Sarah Baird, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Bassam Abu Hamad, Joan Hamory Hicks, Nicola Jones, and Jennifer Muz

• Social Science and Medicine: Population Health 9, 2019

Development Studies Journals

Adolescence in the Time of COVID-19: Evidence from Bangladesh

• Sarah Baird, Jennifer Seager, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Silvia Guglielmi, and Maheen Sultan

• Forthcoming at Bangladesh Development Studies

• Related Policy Brief: Adolescence in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from Bangladesh

Barriers to Refugee adolescents' educational access in the context of COVID-19: exploring the role of gender, displacement and social inequalities

• Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock, Silvia Guglielmi, Sarah Baird, Ingrid Sanchez Tapia, Erin Oakley, and Jennifer Seager

• Journal on Education in Emergencies 8(2), 2022

'I Just Keep Quiet': Addressing the Challenges of Married Rohingya Girls and and Creating Opportunities for Change

• Silvia Guglielmi, Khadija Mitu, and Jennifer Seager

• European Journal of Development Research 33, 2021

'Do Poor People's Dreams Ever Come True?' Educational Aspirations and Lived Realities in Urban Slubs in Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Maheen Sultan, Jenifer Seager, Sabina Faiz Rashid, MA Haque, Sahida Khondaker

• European Journal of Development Research 33, 2021

'People consider us devils: Exploring barriers to full capability development faced by adolescents with disabilities in Ethiopia

• Nicola Jones, Jennifer Seager and Workneh Yadete

• European Journal of Development Research 33, 2021

Human rights education in humanitarian settings: opportunities and challenges

• Megan Devonald, Nicola Jones, Silvia Guglielmi, Jennifer Seager, and Sarah Baird

• Human Rights Education Review 4(1), 2021

Chapters in Books

“Adolescent vulnerabilities in Cox’s Bazar: A mixed-methods investigation into gendered experiences of sexual and reproductive health and bodily integrity.” 

• Sivlia Guglielmi, Khadija Mitu, and Jennifer Seager

• Forthcoming in Springer Handbook on Sex and Gender: Perspectives from South Asia, 2023

‘We are not allowed’: Barriers to Rohingya Refugees’ Educational and Economic Opportunities. 

• Silvia Guglielmi, Khadija Mitu, Sarah Baird, Jennifer Seager and Jared Kalow

• In Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities (pp. 28-53). Routledge. Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock, and Bassam Abu Hamad (Eds.), 2021

 “Finding the Hard to Reach: A Mixed Methods Approach to Including Adolescents with Disabilities in Survey Research.” 

• Jennifer Seager, Sarah Baird, Joan Hamory, Sabina Faiz Rashid, Maheen Sultan, Workneh Yadete, and  Nicola Jones

• In Leaving No Child and No Adolescent Behind: A Global Perspective on Addressing Inclusion through the SDGs. CROP International Poverty Studies Series Columbia University. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag. ,Sudeshna Chatterjee, Alberto Minujin, and Katie Hodgkinson (eds.), 2021