Published:

Peer-Reviewed:


Caste Differences in Child Growth: Disentangling Endowment and Investment Effects, World Development (2024)
    with  Jingyan Guo, Neha Agarwal. Anaka Aiyar, Vaishali Jain and Andrew Bergmann§

Matching on Noise: Finite Sample Bias in the Synthetic Controls Estimator,  Journal of Econometric Methods (2023)
     with Douglas Miller, Brock Smith and David Simon (free version here)
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An Age Profile Perspective on Two Puzzles in Global Child Health: the Indian Enigma & Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics (2021)
    with Anaka Aiyar (replication materials)

Maternal and Child Supplementation with Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements, but Not Child Supplementation Alone, Decreases Self-Reported Household Food Insecurity in Some Settings, Journal of Nutrition (2017)
     with Katherine P Adams, Emmanuel Ayifah, Thokozani E Phiri, Malay K Mridha, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Mary Arimond,
     Charles D Arnold, Joseph Cummins, Sohrab Hussain, Chiza Kumwenda, Susana L Matias, Ulla Ashorn, Anna Lartey,
     Kenneth M Maleta, Stephen A Vosti, and Kathryn G Dewey

Month of Birth and Child Height in 40 Countries, Economics Letters (2017)
      with Neha Agarwal, Anaka Aiyar, Arpita Bhattacharjee, Christian Gunadi, Deepak Singhania, Matthew Taylor and Evan
      Wigton-Jones
      replication files 

Lipid-based nutrient supplementation in the first 1000 days improves child growth in Bangladesh: a cluster-randomized effectiveness trial, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2017)
     with Kathryn Dewey, Malay Mridha, Susana Matias, Charles Arnold, Md. Showkat Khan, Zeina Maalouf-Manasseh, Zakia 
​     Siddiqui, Md. Barkat Ullah, Stephen Vosti

​Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in the Low Track: Revisiting the Kenyan Primary School Experiment, Economics of Education Review (2017)
     replication files and free download

Lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) for pregnant women reduce newborn stunting in Bangladesh, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2016)
     with Malay K Mridha, Susana L Matias, Camila M Chaparro, Rina R Paul, Sohrab Hussain, Stephen A Vosti, Kassandra L
     Harding, Joseph R Cummins, Louise T Day, Stacy L Saha, Janet M Peerson, and Kathryn G Dewey

Malthus, Wages and Pre-Industrial Growth, Journal of Economic History (2012)
     with Greg Clark (UC Davis) and Brock Smith (UC Davis)

Technical Reports:

*Hypothetical Willingness-to-Pay for Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements and Micronutrient Powders for Children in Bangladesh.  Washington, DC: FHI 360/Food and Nutrition (2018)
            With Christian Gunadi, Stephen A. Vosti, Malay K. Mridha, Susana L. Matias, Zeina Maalouf-Manasseh and Kathryn G. Dewey
 
Effectiveness of Home Fortification with Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements (LNS) or Micronutrient Powder on Child Growth, Development, Micronutrient Status, and Health Expenditures in Bangladesh.  Washington, DC: FHI 360/Food and Nutrition (2018)
            With Kathryn G. Dewey, Malay K. Mridha, Susana L. Matias, Charles D. Arnold, Rebecca T. Young, Zeina Maalouf-Manasseh and Stephen A. Vosti
 
The Rang-Din Nutrition Study in Rural Bangladesh: The Costs and Cost- Effectiveness of Programmatic Interventions to Improve Linear Growth at Birth and 18 Months, and the Costs of These Interventions at 24 Months.  Washington, DC: FHI 360/Food and Nutrition (2017) 
with Jacob Humber, Stephen Vosti, Malay Mridha, Susana Matias & Kathryn Dewey 
 
Effectiveness of a Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplement (LNS) Intervention on Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes in Bangladesh Washington, DC: FHI 360/Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA) (2016)
with Kathryn Dewey, Malay Mridha, Susana Matias, Janet Peerson, Charles Arnold, Rebecca Young, and Stephen Vosti.

Other:

Reflections on age imprecision and child nutrition in Uganda (Letter to the Editor), American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2019)
          With Amelia Finaret
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Other Works

Resting Papers

Age-Profile Estimates of the Association Between Economic Growth and Child Health (this version 8/2018)
     with Anaka Aiyar  (replication materials on OSF; previous version (10/2017)  here) 
    *Portions of this manuscript were published as ​An Age Profile Perspective on Two Puzzles in Global Child Health: the Indian Enigma & Economic Growth

 On the Use and Misuse of Child Height-for-Age Z-score in the Demographic and Health Surveys

Current Interests:

Early life health and human capital investment
The links between public policy, human capital investment, and labor market outcomes
"Experimental econometrics" and the evaluation of microeconometric methods
Distributional estimators and heterogeneous treatment effects
Philosophy of statistical inference