Published and Forthcoming Papers:

Peer-Reviewed:

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:
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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 A. Vosti, Malay Mridha, Susana L. Matias and Kathryn Dewey 

Effectiveness of a Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplement (LNS) Intervention on Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes in Bangladesh 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. 

Working Papers

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

Age-Profile Estimates of the Association Between Economic Growth and Child Health 
     with Anaka Aiyar  (replication materials on OSF)

Work in Progress:

Understanding Synthetic Controls
     with Douglas Miller, David Simon and Brock Smith

Nutritional Status and Health Care Seeking During Pregnancy 
     with RDNS research group.

Accidental Experimental Variation: Using a Program Interruption to Explore Nutritional Policy Targeting Over the Course of Pregnancy 
     with RDNS research group.

Current Interests:

Complements and substitutes in 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