Publications
Does Delivery of Primary Health Care Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from the roll-out of Community Health Centers, with Esra Kose and Siobhan O’Keefe (Accepted at Journal of Human Resources)
Community-Based Health Programs and Child Vaccinations: Evidence from Madagascar, with Catalina Herrera (World Development, Volume 170, October 2023)
Social Interventions, Health and Wellbeing: The Long-term and Intergenerational Effects of a School Construction Program, with Bhash Mazumder and Maggie Triyana (Journal of Human Resources, July 2023; Volume 58, Issue 4)
Reducing the Cost of Remoteness: The Effects of Community Health Workers Programs on Maternal and Children’s Health in Madagascar, with Catalina Herrera (Journal of Health Economics, Volume 73, September 2020)
Intergenerational Human Capital Spillovers: Indonesia’s School Construction and its Effects on the Next Generation, with Bhash Mazumder and Maggie Triyana (AEA Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 109, May 2019). Appendix
The Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Pollution on Children’s Human Capital: the Case of Indonesia, with Maggie Triyana (Journal of Human Resources, 2019 54:1037-1080)
Maternal Age and Child Achievement, with Greg Duncan, Ken Lee and Ariel Kalil (Demography, December 2018)
Impact of Early-Life Shocks on Human Capital Formation: Evidence from El Niño Floods in Ecuador (Journal of Health Economics, November 2018)
- Media or policy coverage: IADB blog Ideas Matter
Family Investment Responses to Childhood Health Conditions: Intrafamily Allocation of Resources (Journal of Health Economics, September 2014)
Working Papers
How Do Early-Life Shocks Interact with Subsequent Human-Capital Investments? Evidence from Administrative Data, with Valentina Duque and Fabio Sanchez (Revised and Resubmitted – Journal of Human Resources)
A Reanalysis of the Nurse-Family Partnership Program: The Memphis Randomized Control Trial (with James Heckman, Maggie Holland, Kevin Makino and Rodrigo Pinto). NBER Working Paper No. 23610
- Media or policy coverage: NYT Upshot, NPR, Washington Post, Edweek, Chalkbeat, SCPR
Work in Progress
The Life-Course Effects of Access to WIC, with Marianne Bitler, Danea Horn, Esra Kose and Arian Seifoddini.
Nurturing Parents and Children in Rural Indonesia: an Early-Stimulation Intervention, with Emanuela Galasso, Helen Henningham, Elan Satriawan and Maggie Triyana.
Funding: USAID-Development Innovation Ventures. JPAL SEA – Indonesia Research Fund. Status: Fieldwork in progress. AEA RCT Registry (6360)
The Returns of an Additional Year of Schooling: The Case of State-Mandated Kindergarten, with Jade Jenkins
Resting Projects
COVID, Wellbeing and Vaccine Acceptance in Indonesia, with Rizal Adi Prima, Gumilang Sahadewo, Elan Satriawan, and Martin Siyaranamual.
Funding: Asian Development Bank.