Publications
1. Head Start Access: No Evidence of Changes to Lifetime Fertility, with Esra Kose and Siobhan O’Keefe (Accepted at AEA Papers and Proceedings)
2. 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 (Forthcoming at Journal of Human Resources)
3. Community-Based Health Programs and Child Vaccinations: Evidence from Madagascar, with Catalina Herrera (World Development, Volume 170, October 2023)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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
7. 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)
8. Maternal Age and Child Achievement, with Greg Duncan, Ken Lee and Ariel Kalil (Demography, December 2018)
9. 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
10. Family Investment Responses to Childhood Health Conditions: Intrafamily Allocation of Resources (Journal of Health Economics, September 2014)
Working Papers
11. 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)
12. WIC Rollout and Racial Disparities in Birth Outcomes: New Evidence from the National Archives,” with Marianne Bitler, Danea Horn, Esra Kose and Arian Seifoddini.
13. 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
14. 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)
15. The Intergenerational Effects of Head Start on Infant Health, with Esra Kose and Siobhan O’Keefe.
16. The Maternal Employment Effects of Expanding Preschool Duration, with Esra Kose and Chloe Gibbs.
17. The Life-Course Effects of Access to WIC, with Marianne Bitler, Danea Horn, Esra Kose and Arian Seifoddini.
18. 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.