Can Awareness and Media Campaigns Help Balance Child Sex Ratio? Evidence from India
Abstract: The Child Sex Ratio (CSR) naturally tends to 950 girls per 1,000 boys, but human intervention often skews it. In 2011, India’s CSR was 919 driven by a historical preference for sons. The government responded by launching media campaigns to address the imbalance, starting with 100 critical districts in 2015 and expanding to more districts in the following years. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design, the results show minimal statistical evidence of improvement in CSR, contradicting existing literature. These differences in results may be due to the difference in datasets used, which suggests a need for more comprehensive evaluation of the policy to effectively study its impact.
Investigating E-Cigarettes policy effects (NBER Funded) with Dhaval Dave Daniel Dench, Michael Grossman, Henry Saffer, et.al.
Abstract: Tobacco regulation should deter nicotine use among youth and support smoking cessation for adults. E-cigarettes raise concerns about youth addiction and potential transition to smoking, while offering a possible tool for adult smokers to quit. Using a variety of datasets, including restricted access NHIS data (2014-2022), we examine the impact of an online sales ban on e-cigarette use, smoking, quit attempts, successful quits, and smokeless tobacco use. A staggered difference-in-differences analysis is used to assess the effects of this policy, controlling for other relevant factors.
Hughes, Danny R., Jie Chen, Alexandra E. Wallace, Shubhsri Rajendra, Stefan Santavicca, Richard Duszak Jr, Elizabeth Y. Rula, and Robert A. Smith. "Comparison of Lung Cancer screening eligibility and use between commercial, Medicare, and Medicare advantage enrollees." Journal of the American College of Radiology 20, no. 4 (2023): 402-410.
Chartrand, Nicholas, Chad Stecher, Shubhsri Rajendra, Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, Richard Duszak Jr, and Danny R. Hughes. "An examination of racial and ethnic disparities in the use of prostate biopsy and magnetic resonance imaging in prostate cancer screening." Urology Practice 10, no. 6 (2023): 612-619.