Publications

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Lancet Commission on Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health (with A. Amebelu, R. Ban, ..., and Jennyfer Wolf), Lancet, 398(10310):1469-1470, October 2021, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02005-5. PDF (open access).

Biology, Behavior and Policy, or, Dr. Fauci, Sen. Paul and Prof. Lucas Walk into a Pandemic (with Ayse Ercumen and Dean Spears), eClinicalMedicine (Lancet), 31(C):100719, January 2021, doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100719. PDF (open access).

Eliciting and Utilizing Willingness-to-Pay: Evidence from Field Trials in Northern Ghana (with James Berry and Greg Fischer), Journal of Political Economy, 128(4):1436-1473, April 2020, doi:10.1086/705374. PDF

Poultry ownership associated with increased risk of child diarrhea: Evidence from Uganda (with A. Ercumen, C. Prottas, A. Harris, G. Dowd and A. Dioguardi). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 102(3):526-533, March 2020, doi:10.4269/ajtmh.19-0012 (open access). PDF

The Implications of Three Major New Trials for the Effect of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene on Childhood Diarrhoea and Stunting: A Consensus Statement (with O. Cumming, B. Arnold, ..., and J. Colford). BMC Medicine, 17(1):173, August 2019, doi:10.1186/s12916-019-1410-x.

Productivity in Piece-Rate Labor Markets: Evidence from Rural Malawi (with B. Kelsey Jack), Journal of Development Economics, 131: 42-61, March 2018, doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.11.002. PDF.

Microcredit and Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: Evidence from a Randomized-Controlled Trial of Finance for Sanitation in Rural Cambodia (with A. BenYishay, A. Fraker, G. Palloni, N.B. Shah, S. Shirrell and P. Wang). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 86: 121-140, November 2017. doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2016.11.004. PDF.

The pursuit of balance in sequential randomized trials (with David I. Levine and Thomas H. Polley), Development Engineering, vol. 1 (June 2016): 12-25. doi: 10.1016/j.deveng.2015.11.001. PDF. Code.

Disgust, Shame, and Soapy Water: Tests of Novel Interventions to Promote Safe Water and Hygiene (with David I. Levine, Stephen P. Luby, Thomas H. Polley, Kaniz Khatun-e-Jannat, and Leanne Unicomb), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists vol. 3, no. 2 (June 2016): 321-359. doi: 10.1086/684161. PDF

Satellites, Self-reports, and Submersion: Exposure to Floods in Bangladesh (with A. Jina and A.M. Mobarak). American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 105(5): 232-236, May 2015, doi:10.1257/aer.p20151095. PDF. Online appendix. Replication code and data.

Encouraging Sanitation Investment in the Developing World: A Cluster-Randomized Trial (with A. Mushfiq Mobarak and James Levinsohn). Science, pg. 903-906, May 2015. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa0491. PDF