Peer-reviewed publications
Grouped by topic, newest first. Click a title to open the paper. * senior author; # co-lead author.
Quality of care
Investigating the know-do gap in antibiotics prescribing: experimental evidence from India
Wagner, Mohanan, Mukherji, Zutshi, Patil, Krishnappa, Banerjee, Sood · Science Advances, 2025
Reducing Bias Among Health Care Providers: Experimental Evidence From Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and Pakistan
Wagner, Moucheraud, Shah, Wollum, Friedman, Dow · Economic Journal, 2025 [Formerly NBER Working Paper No. 31269]
Lasting effect of social norms feedback on post-surgery opioid prescribing behavior
Zanocco, Wagner, Mariano, Kirkegaard, Yan, Fox, Goldstein, Brummett, Watkins · JAMA Health Forum, 2025
What drives poor quality of care for child diarrhea? Experimental evidence from India
Wagner, Mohanan, Zutshi, Mukherji, Sood · Science, 2024
Media coverage: Nature, NPR, Washington Post, and 70+ other outlets
Effect of peer comparison or guideline-based feedback vs no feedback on post-surgery opioid prescriptions: A cluster-randomized controlled trial
Wagner, Kirkegaard, Mariano, Doctor, Yan, Persell, Goldstein, Fox, Brummett, Romanelli, Bouskill, Martinez, Zanocco, Meeker, Mudiganti, Waljee, Watkins · JAMA Health Forum, 2024
A call for community-shared decisions
Doctor, Meeker, Fox, Persell, Wagner, Bouskill, Zanocco, Romanelli, Brummett, Kirkegaard, Watkins · BMJ Evidence-based Medicine, 2024
Surgeons’ views of peer comparison and guideline-based feedback on postsurgery opioid prescriptions: a qualitative investigation
Martinez, Kirkegaard, Bouskill, Yan, Wagner, Watkins · BMJ Open Quality, 2024
Disparities in postoperative opioid prescribing by race and ethnicity: an electronic health records-based observational study from Northern California, 2015–2020
Romanelli, Shenoy, Martinez, Mudiganti, Mariano, Zanocco, Wagner, Kirkegaard, Watkins · Archives of Public Health, 2023
Does the Market Reward Quality?: Evidence from India
Wagner, Banerjee, Mohanan, Sood · International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2022 [Previously NBER Working Paper No. 26460]
The Impact of a Mandatory Prescription Drug Monitoring Program on Post-Operative Opioid Prescriptions
Shenoy, Wagner, Kirkegaard, Romanelli, Mudiganti, Mariano, Martinez, Zanocco, Watkins · JAMA Health Forum, 2021
Maternal cash transfers, quality of care, and maternal health: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial in Nigeria
Okeke, Wagner, Abubakar · Health Affairs, 2020
Community health and child diarrhea
The Cost-Effectiveness of Community Health Workers Delivering Free Diarrhea Treatment: Evidence from Uganda
Wagner, Zutshi, Asiimwe, Levine · Health Policy and Planning, 2021
Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor: Experimental Evidence from Malawi
Dupas, Nhlema, Wagner, Wolf, Wroe · AEJ: Economic Policy, 2021 [Author order is alphabetical]
When Financial Incentives Backfire: Evidence from a community health worker experiment in Uganda
Wagner, Asiimwe, Levine · Journal of Development Economics, 2019
The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
Wagner, Asiimwe, Dow, Levine · PLOS Medicine, 2019
Testing the socioeconomic and environmental determinants of better child-health outcomes in Africa: a cross-sectional study among nations
Bradshaw, Otto, Annamalay, Heft-Neal, Wagner, Le Souëf · BMJ Open, 2019
Barriers To Use Of Oral Rehydration Salts For Child Diarrhea In The Private Sector: Evidence From India
Wagner, Shah, Sood · Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 2014
Comparative Performance of Public and Private Sector Delivery of BCG Vaccination: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Wagner, Szilagyi, Sood · Vaccine, 2014
Private Sector Provision of Oral Rehydration Therapy for Child Diarrhea in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sood, Wagner · American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2014
For-profit sector immunization service provision in Kenya: does low provision create a barrier to take-up?
Sood, Wagner · Health Policy and Planning, 2012
Climate, disasters, and conflict
The Impact of Tropical Cyclone Exposure on Infant Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Wang, Jing, Heft-Neal, Clark-Ginsberg, Guha-Sapir, Bendavid, Wagner* · Science Advances, 2025
Decreased likelihood of schooling as a consequence of tropical cyclones: Evidence from 13 low- and middle-income countries
Jing, Heft-Neal, Wang, Chen, Qiu, Opper, Wagner, Bendavid · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025
Spatial patterns of historical changes in human heat stress disagree across metrics
Kong, Jing, Raymond, Tuholske, Heft-Neal, Wagner, Wang, Zimmer, Huber, Bendavid · Geophysical Research Letters, 2025
Global Population Profile of Tropical Cyclone Exposure, 2002-2019
Jing, Heft-Neal, Chavas, Griswold, Wang, Clark-Ginsberg, Guha-Sapir, Bendavid, Wagner* · Nature, 2024
Women and Children Living in Areas of Armed Conflict: a geospatial analysis of mortality and orphanhood in Africa
Wagner, Heft-Neal, Wise, Black, Burke, Boerma, Bhutta, Bendavid · The Lancet Global Health, 2019
Armed Conflict and Child Mortality in Africa: a geospatial analysis
Wagner, Heft-Neal, Bhutta, Black, Burke, Bendavid · The Lancet, 2018
Health insurance
High-Deductible Health Plans and Receipt of Guideline-Concordant Care for Adults with Chronic Illness
Gidwani, Yank, Asch, Burgette, Kofner, Peltz, Wagner* · JAMA Network Open, 2025
The Impact of Telehealth Cost-Sharing on Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from High-Deductible Health Plans
Gidwani, Yank, Burgette, Kofner, Asch, Wagner* · Health Services Research, 2024
India’s Historic Effort to Expand Health Insurance to Individuals Living Below the Poverty Line
Sood, Wagner · JAMA Health Forum, 2020
Social Health Insurance for the Poor: Lessons from a Health Insurance Program in Karnataka, India
Sood, Wagner · BMJ Global Health, 2018
Does Enrollment in High Deductible Health Plans Encourage Price Shopping
Sood, Zhang, Wagner, Mehrotra, Huckfeldt, Haviland · Health Services Research, 2017
The Impact of Health Insurance for Tertiary Care on Postoperative Outcomes and Seeking Care for Symptoms: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Karnataka, India
Sood, Wagner · BMJ Open, 2015
The Impact of Insurance on HIV Testing
Sood, Wagner, Wu · American Journal of Health Economics, 2015
Government health insurance for people below poverty line in India: quasi-experimental evaluation of insurance and health outcomes
Sood, Bendavid, Mukherji, Wagner, Nagpal, Mullen · BMJ, 2014
Price Shopping in Consumer-Directed Health Plans
Sood, Wagner, Huckfeldt, Haviland · Forum for Health Economics and Policy, 2013
HIV/AIDS
Randomized Controlled Trial of a Group Cognitive Behavior Therapy HIV Prevention Intervention for Immigrant Latino Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men who Have Sex with Men
Bogart, Barreras, Robledo, Whitaker, Mendoza-Graf, Klein, Castro, Wagner, Penoyer, MacCarthy, Brooks · AIDS and Behavior, 2025
Enhanced Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Implementation for Ugandan Fisherfolk: Pilot Intervention Outcomes
Bogart, Musoke, Mukama, Allupo, Klein, Sejjemba, Mwima, Kadama, Mulebeke, Pandey, Wagner, Mukasa, Wanyenze · AIDS and Behavior, 2024
The Association Between Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy and Viral Suppression Under Dolutegravir-Based Regimens: An Observational Cohort Study from Uganda
Wagner, Wang, Stecher, Karamagi, Odiit, Haberer, Linnemayr · Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2024
Behavioral economic incentives to support HIV care: Results from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda
Linnemayr, Wagner, Saya, Stecher, Lunkuse, Wabukala, Odiit, Mukasa · JAIDS, 2024
A qualitative exploration of health-related present bias among HIV-positive adults in Uganda
MacCarthy, Mendoza-Graf, Mayo-Wilson, Wagner, Saya, Chemusto, Mukasa, Linnemayr · AIDS Care, 2023
Food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal mixed-methods study from a cohort of HIV clients in Uganda
Wagner#, MacCarthy#, Saya, Ghai, Karamagi, Odiit, Mukasa, Linnemayr · AIDS and Behavior, 2023 [Wagner and MacCarthy are co-lead authors]
The role of material deprivations in determining ART adherence: Evidence from a conjoint analysis among HIV-positive adults in Uganda
Saya, Wagner, Mukasa, Wabukala, Lunkuse, Linnemayr · PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Increased depression during COVID-19 lockdown associated with food insecurity and antiretroviral non-adherence among people living with HIV in Uganda
G. Wagner, Wagner, Gizaw, Saya, MacCarthy, Mukasa, Wabukala, Linnemayr · AIDS and Behavior, 2022
‘The one who doesn’t take ART medication has no wealth at all and no purpose on Earth’ – a qualitative assessment of how HIV-positive adults in Uganda understand the health and wealth-related benefits of ART
Saya, MacCarthy, Mukasa, Wabukala, Lunkuse, Wagner, Linnemayr · BMC Public Health, 2022
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on use of HIV care, antiretroviral therapy adherence, and viral suppression: An observational cohort study from Uganda
Wagner, Mukasa, Nakakande, Stecher, Saya, Linnemayr · JAIDS, 2021
Increased depression during COVID-19 lockdown associated with economic stressors and ART non-adherence among people living with HIV in Uganda
G. Wagner, Wagner, MacCarthy, Saya, Tebeka, Linnemayr · AIDS and Behavior, 2021
HIV Care Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mixed-Methods Telephone Interviews with Clinic-Enrolled HIV-Infected Adults in Uganda
Linnemayr, Mayo-Wilson, Saya, Wagner, MacCarthy, Walukaga, Nakubulwa, Karamagi · AIDS and Behavior, 2020
Using behavioral economics to increase HIV knowledge and testing among Latinx sexual minority men and transgender women: A randomized controlled pilot study
MacCarthy, Wagner, Barreras, Kim, Mendoza-Graf, Giguere, Carballo-Dieguez, Linnemayr · JAIDS, 2020
A randomized controlled trial study of the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary impact of SITA: A mobile technology-based intervention informed by behavioral economics to improve ART adherence among youth in Uganda
MacCarthy, Wagner, Mendoza-Graf, Gutierrez, Samba, Birungi, Okoboi, Linnemayr · BMC Infectious Disease, 2019
Behavioral Economics Incentives to Support HIV Treatment Adherence (BEST): Protocol for a randomized controlled trial in Uganda
Linnemayr, Stecher, Saya, MacCarthy, Wagner, Jennings, Mukasa · Trials, 2019
Incentives Versus Defaults: Cost-Effectiveness of Behavioral Approaches for HIV Screening
Wagner, Montoy, Drabo, Dow · AIDS and Behavior, 2019
Using behavioral economics to promote HIV prevention for populations at high risk for HIV
Linnemayr, MacCarthy, Wagner, Barreras, Galvan · Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research, 2018
The Impact of Positive Income Shocks on Risky Sexual Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
Wagner, Gong, de Walque, Dow · AIDS and Behavior, 2016
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis For The Prevention Of HIV Among Los Angeles County Men Who Have Sex With Men
Drabo, Hay, Vardavas, Wagner, Sood · Clinical Infectious Disease, 2016
Repeat HIV Testing and Risky Sexual Behavior: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Zomba, Malawi
Delevande, Wagner, Sood · Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research, 2016
PEPFAR Funding Associated With An Increase In Employment Among Males in Ten Sub-Saharan African Countries
Wagner, Barofsky, Sood · Health Affairs, 2015
The Affordable Care Act May Increase The Number Of People Getting Tested For HIV By Nearly 500,000 By 2017
Wagner, Wu, Sood · Health Affairs, 2014
Test and Treat in Los Angeles: A mathematical model of the effects of test-and-treat for the MSM population in LA County
Sood, Wagner, Jaycocks, Drabo, Vardavas · Clinical Infectious Disease, 2013
Reply to Gonzalez-Serna et al
Sood, Wagner, Jaycocks, Drabo, Vardavas · Clinical Infectious Disease, 2013
Family planning
Contraceptive care visit intentions and outcomes: Evidence from Burkina Faso, Pakistan and Tanzania
Moucheraud, Wollum, Brooks, Shah, Gipson, Wagner* · Studies in Family Planning, 2024
A multi-component intervention to reduce bias during family planning visits: qualitative insights on implementation from Burkina Faso, Pakistan and Tanzania
Moucheraud, Wollum, Awan, Dow, Friedman, Koulidiati, Sabasaba, Shah, Wagner* · Contraception and Reproductive Medicine, 2024
Characterizing provider bias in contraceptive care in Tanzania and Burkina Faso: A mixed-methods study
Wollum, Moucheraud, Gipson, Friedman, Shah, Wagner* · Social Science & Medicine, 2024
Measuring Family Planning Provider Bias: A Discrete Choice Experiment Among Burkinabé, Pakistani, and Tanzanian Providers
Dieci, Wagner, Friedman, Burgess, Vandermark, McCoy, Shah, Dow · Studies in Family Planning, 2021
Methods
Linking Statistics With Testing Policy to Manage COVID-19 in the Community
Hilborne, Wagner, Cabreros, Brook · American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2020