Publications
Published papers:
"Understanding Child Sex Tracking Using Victim-Level Data", 2024, forthcoming in the Economic Development and Cultural Change (with Maria Kuecken, Eliana La Ferrara, and Elsa Artadi)
BREAD Working Paper No. 545
"A Mother's Voice: Impacts of Spousal Communication Training on Child Health Investments", 2024, forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics (with Seema Jayachandran and Celine Zipfel
"The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Learning and Wellbeing: Evidence from India", 2023, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 164 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103133) (with Andrea Guariso)
Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? A Randomized Intervention in the Antimalarial Medicine Market in Uganda, 2022, Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 20, Issue 3: 957-1000. (with Jakob Svensson and David Yanagizawa-Drott) (older version featured in NY Times Fixes blog, June 2014)
Selected into JEEA's Editors Choice Collection: Imran Rasul with teaching material
Community Health Educators and Maternal Health: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria, 2023, The Journal of Development Studies, 59:1,73-93, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2022.2110489 (with Jessica Leight and Vandana Sharma)
HIV, risk, and time preferences: Evidence from a general population sample in Lesotho, 2022, Health Economics: 31(5): 904-911 (with L. Corno, D. de Walque, and J. Svensson).
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance hesitancy in low- middle-income countries, 2021, Nature Medicine, 27: 1385–1394. (Joint with Solís Arce, J.S., Warren, S.S., Meriggi, N.F. et al.).
Media coverage: Nature Medicine Editorial; EurekaAlert; IGC Policy Brief
Reducing Child Mortality in the Last Mile: Experimental Evidence on Community Health Promoters in Uganda, 2019, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11 (3), 155-92. (Joint with Andrea Guariso, Jakob Svensson and David Yanagizawa-Drott).
Incentivizing Safer Sexual Behavior: Evidence from a Lottery Experiment on HIV Prevention, 2018, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(3): 287–314. (Joint with Lucia Corno, Damien de Walque, and Jakob Svensson).
Mothers Care More, But Fathers Decide: Educating Parents about Child Health in Uganda, 2017, American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 107(5): 496–500. (with Seema Jayachandran).
Experimental Evidence of the Long-Run Impact of Community Based Monitoring, 2017, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 9(1): pp 33-69. (with Damien de Walque and Jakob Svensson).
Income Shocks and Gender Gaps in Education: Evidence from Uganda, 2013, Journal of Development Economics, 105: pp 237-253. (featured in The Economist, Nov. 2013)
When is Community-Based Monitoring Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Primary Health in Uganda, 2010, Journal of European Economic Association, 8:2-3: 571-581 (with Jakob Svensson)
Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on Community-Based Monitoring in Uganda, 2009, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124:2: 735–769 (with Jakob Svensson) Supplemental Online Appendix
"Associations between birth kit use and maternal and neonatal health outcomes in rural Jigawa state, Nigeria: A secondary analysis of data from a cluster randomized controlled trial", 2018, PLOS One, 13(12). (with Jessica Leight, Vandana Sharma, Willa Brown, Laura Costica, and Fatima Abdulazis)
“High Maternal Mortality in Jigawa State, Northern Nigeria, Estimated Using the Sisterhood Method”, 2017, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 17:163 (with Jessica Leight and Vandana Sharma).
“Illness recognition, decision-making and care-seeking for maternal and newborn complications: A qualitative study in Jigawa State, Northern Nigeria”, 2017, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 36(Suppl 1):46. (with Vandana Sharma, Jessica Leight, Fatima AbdulAziz, and Nadège Giroux)
"That’s a woman’s problem”: a qualitative analysis to understand male involvement in maternal and newborn health in Jigawa state, northern Nigeria", 2019, Reproductive Health, 16:143 (with Vandana Sharma, Jessica Leight, Fatima AbdulAziz, and Nadège Giroux)
Book chapter:
Local Accountability Improves Health Services, in T. Besley and R. Jayaraman (eds.), 2010, Institutional Microeconomics of Development, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (with Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson)