Publications
"TRAP'd teens: Impacts of abortion provider regulations on fertility and education" (2024) with Mayra Pineda Torres. Forthcoming at Journal of Public Economics. Most recent version here
Featured in the ASHEcon special webinar, "Economics of Reproductive Healthcare Policy" (Sept 2022) (link)
Previous version: IZA Discussion Paper 14837. (link)
"Reducing maternal labor market detachment: A role for paid family leave" with Britni Wilcher. (2023) Labour Economics. Preprint version here
Previous version: AU Economics Working Paper 2019-07 (link)
Links to media coverage: On the Evidence podcast; ASSA video; Wisconsin Public Radio
"Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture" with Kate Ambler and Michael O'Sullivan. (2022) AEA: Papers & Proceedings, 112: 456-550.
"Precautionary Savings and Shock-Coping Behaviors: The Effects of Promoting Mobile Bank Savings on Transactional Sex in Kenya" with Erick Gong. (2021) Journal of Health Economics, 78: 102460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102460
Ungated accepted manuscript (link)
Previous version: AU Economic Working Paper 2019-06 (link)
Links to media coverage: VoxDev
"Improving food safety on the farm: Experimental evidence from Kenya on agricultural incentives and subsidies as public health investments" (2021) with Vivian Hoffmann. World Development, 143. (open access) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105406
Previous version: IFPRI Discussion Paper 07146 (link).
"Women’s reproductive health and economic empowerment" with Anna Bernstein. Ch 34 in Handbook of Feminist Economics. (2021) Eds. Ebru Kongar and Gunseli Berik. London: Routledge. (link)
Ungated manuscript (link)
"Facilitating women's access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda." (2021) with Kate Ambler and Michael O’Sullivan. World Development, 138. (open access) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105224
Previous version: IFPRI Discussion Paper 01762 (link)
"The effect of promoting savings on informal risk-sharing: experimental evidence from vulnerable women in Kenya" with Felipe Dizon and Erick Gong. (2020) Journal of Human Resources 0917-9077R2; published ahead of print June 7, 2019. https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.55.3.0917-9077r2
Web appendix link. Replication package link. Ungated working paper version link.
"The impact of reducing aflatoxin exposure on child linear growth in Kenya: a cluster-randomized controlled trial" with Vivian Hoffmann and Jef Leroy. (2018) British Medical Journal: Global Health, 3(6):e000983. (open access link)
“Income Shocks and HIV in Africa” with Erick Gong and Marshall Burke. (2015) The Economic Journal, 125(585): 1157-89. June. (open access link)
Links to Media Coverage: Voice of America, CNBC Africa
“Contraceptive Supply and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from Ghana” (2015) Economic Development and Cultural Change, 64(1):31-69. October. (open access link)
Links to Media Coverage: The Atlantic, New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, Newsweek and several other outlets,
Link to blog post: Development Impact blog.
"Using Agriculture to Improve Child Health: Promoting orange sweet potatoes reduces diarrhea" with Alan de Brauw. (2015) World Development, 74:15-24. October. (open access link)
Links to Media Coverage: Voice of America, de Volkskrant, International Business Times, Other coverage
Link to blog post: IFPRI Research blog
"Serum aflatoxin B1-lysine adduct level in adult women from Eastern Province in Kenya depends on household socio-economic status: cross-sectional study" with Jef Leroy and Jia-Sheng Wang. (2015) Social Science & Medicine, 146:104-110. December. (gated link; working paper link)
“Growing Up Together: Cohort composition and child investment” (2014) Demography, 51(1): 229‐255. (open access link)
Reports
"The economic effects of abortion access: a review of the evidence" with Anna Bernstein. (2019) Institute of Women's Policy Research & Center for Economics of Reproductive Health Report. Washington DC. (link)
Links to media coverage: NBCnews Think; Daily Kos, DAME Magazine
"The economic effects of contraceptive access: a review of the evidence" with Anna Bernstein. (2019) Institute of Women's Policy Research & Center for Economics of Reproductive Health Report. Washington DC. (link)
Links to media coverage: CNBC Make It, Devex
Working Papers
"Increasing women's bargaining power: Evaluating two interventions in Uganda" (2023) with Kate Ambler and Michael O’Sullivan. Revision requested at Journal of Development Economics. Most recent version here
Previous versions:
"Increasing women's empowerment: Implications for family welfare" (2021) IZA Discussion Paper 14861 (link)
"Empowering Women: Comparing the Impacts of Economic and Behavior Change Interventions" (2019) IFPRI Discussion Paper (link)
“Experimental measures of intra-household resource control” (2023) with Maria Recalde and Kate Ambler. Revision requested at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Most recent version here
Previous version: “Measurement of intra-household resource control: Exploring the validity of experimental measures" (2020) IFPRI Discussion Paper 01984 (link)
"At a crossroads: The impact of abortion access on future economic outcomes" (2021) American University Department of Economics Working Paper 2021-02. (link)
Work in progress
"Household production efficiency, women’s empowerment, and household cooperation" (2023) with Maria Recalde, Tricia Koroknay-Palicz, Silvia Espinosa and Markus Goldstein.
"Economic Shocks, Inequality, and Unintended Births" (2022) with Kate Pennington.