Research

Comparing Community-Based Targeting to Big Data and Machine Learning in Bangladesh (with Emily Aiken, Anik Ashraf, Joshua E. Blumenstock and A. Mushfiq Mobarak), Manuscript, December 2023. Abstract. Write for early draft with preliminary results.

Encouraging Rural Sanitation Take-up: Insights from Experimental Evaluations of Interventions (with Sanghmitra Gautam, Michael Gechter and A. Mushfiq Mobarak), CEnREP Working Paper No. 24-001, January 2024. Revision requested, World Development. PDF.

Demand Estimation with Strategic Complementarities: Sanitation in Bangladesh (with James Levinsohn and A. Mushfiq Mobarak). Working paper, October 2019. PDF

Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Leader and Constituent Responses to a Large-Scale Intervention (with A. Mushfiq Mobarak). Working paper, July 2019. PDF

Credit Constraints, Discounting and Investment in Health: Evidence from Micropayments for Clean Water in Dhaka (with David I. Levine, Thomas Polley and Brian Quistorff). Working paper, February 2016. PDF

Social and Financial Incentives for Overcoming a Collective Action Problem (with M. Mehrab Bakhtiar, James Levinsohn and A. Mushfiq Mobarak). Journal of Development Economics, 163:103072, May 2023, doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103072. (open access) PDF 

statacons: An SCons-based build tool for Stata (with A. Kim, B. Quistorff and C. Shumway). The Stata Journal, 23(1):149-196, March 2023, doi:10.1177/1536867X231162032. PDF

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. (open access) PDF

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. (open access) PDF

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