Publications
Impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on healthcare inaccessibility and unaffordability in Uganda (with Bijetri Bose and Shamma Alam). American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, vol. 109(3): 527–535, 2023. Open Access.
Birth Spacing and Fertility in the Presence of Son Preference and Sex-Selective Abortions: India’s Experience Over Four Decades. Demography, vol. 59(1): 61–88, 2022. GitHub repository with paper and code. Appendix for online publication. Open Access.
Income Shocks, Contraceptive Use, and Timing of Fertility (with Shamma Alam). Journal of Development Economics, vol. 131: 96-103, 2018. GitHub repository with paper and code.
Differences in Child Health between Rural, Urban, and Slum Areas: Evidence from India (with Yu-hsuan Su). Demography, vol. 55(1): 223-247, 2018. Online Appendix.
Effects of Parental Absence on Child Labor and School Attendance. Review of Economics of the Household, vol 14(1): 103-130, 2016.
High School Dropouts and Sexually Transmitted Infections (with Mark Anderson). Southern Economic Journal, vol. 81, no. 1: 113-134, 2014.
Literacy, Skills and Welfare: Effects of Participation in Adult Literacy Programs, (with Niels-Hugo Blunch). Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 60, no. 1: 17-66, October 2011. JSTOR link
Birth Order and the Intrahousehold Allocation of Time and Education, (with Mette Ejrnæs). Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 86, no. 4, November 2004.
Child Health and Mortality: Does Health Knowledge Matter?, Journal of African Economies, vol. 11, no. 4, 2002 (with Jens Kovsted and Finn Tarp).
Children as Insurance, Journal of Population Economics, vol. 14, no. 1: 119-136, 2001.
Conference Proceedings
"Measuring Utility of Human-Computer Interactions: Toward a Science of Aggregate Inferred Preference,'' Proceedings of CHI 2011: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, BC, May 2011 (with Michael Toomin, Travis Kriplean and James A. Landay).
Book Chapters
"Economic Shocks and Children’s Education" in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, ed. Klaus F. Zimmerman, Springer Nature (with Shamma A. Alam and Claire Simpson). 2022.
"Fertility Issues and Policy in Developing Countries" in The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, ed. Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2017
“Fertility in Developing Countries” in Family Economics: How Households Impact Markets and Economic Growth, ed. Esther Redmount, Chapter 9, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. 2015.
"Human Health and Climate Change" in Reducing Poverty, Protecting Livelihoods, and Building Assets in a Changing Climate, ed. Dorte Verner, Chapter 6, 167-194, Washington, DC: The World Bank (with Lykke Andersen, John Geary and Dorte Verner). 2010.
Working Papers
Impact of Twin Lockdowns on Hunger, Labor Market Outcomes, and Household Coping Mechanisms: Evidence from Uganda (with Shamma Alam and Ishraq Ahmed). Revise and resubmit invited from World Bank Economic Review.
How Is Fertility Behavior in Africa Different? Revise and resubmit invited from Demography. Online Appendix.
Navigating Food Price Shocks in a Pandemic: Food Insecurity and Coping Mechanisms in Burkina Faso (with Shamma Adeeb Alam and Shi Xi Liu). Revise and resubmit invited from World Development.
Does Expanding Female Economic Opportunities Improve Children’s Human Capital? Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Bangladesh (with Shamma Alam).
What Labor Supply Elasticities do Employers Face? Evidence from Field Experiments (with Nail Hassairi).
Only if You Pay Me More: Field Experiments Support Compensating Wage Differentials Theory (with Nail Hassairi and Michael Toomim).
Does Family Planning Reduce Fertility? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia (with Kathleen Beegle and Luc Christiaensen).
Gone With the Wind? Hurricane Risk, Fertility and Education.
The Link Between Parental and Offspring Longevity (with Edwin Wong).
Natural Hazards and Child Health. University of Washington, Department of Economics, Working Paper UWEC-2010-3.
Work in Progress
“Long-Run Effects of Domestic Violence: Does Domestic Violence Increase Later Likelihood of Prosecution?” (with David Martin and David Baker, King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office)
“Does Reducing Required Number of Court Attendance Reduce Failure to Appear? Evidence from Washington State Supreme Court Policy Changes” (with David Baker, King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office)
Higher Pay, Better Work? Field Experiments on Wage and Quality of Work in an Online Labor Market (with Nail Hassairi).
Are Wages Really Sticky? Evidence from a Field Experiment in a New Economy Labor Market (with Nail Hassairi).
Technical Reports/Policy Briefs
“Returns after Failure to Appear” prepared for King County Superior Court, King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, and King County Jail. Used for deciding on the rate of case scheduling after COVID.
Sex Selective Abortions, Fertility and Birth Spacing. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, no. WPS 7189. A significantly revised version was published in Demography.
Family Planning and Fertility: Estimating Program Effects Using Cross-Sectional Data, (with Kathleen Beegle and Luc Christiaensen). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5812.
Expected Impacts of CAFTA in Guatemala. Background paper for World Bank analysis of
the impact of the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
Evolution of Poverty and Welfare in Ghana in the 1990s: Achievements and Challenges, (with Sudharshan Canagarajah). Africa Region Working Paper Series No. 61 (October 2003), World Bank.
Theses
Children and Household Behaviour in Developing Countries. PhD thesis, Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen. December 2001.
Population and Economic Growth. MSc Dissertation, Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen. June 1996.
Endogenous Fertility and Economic Growth. MA Dissertation, Development Economics, School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex. September 1996.