Published/Forthcoming

Refereed Journals
• Ocean Salinity, Early-Life Health, and Adaptation with Amanda Guimbeau, James Ji and Zi Long.
  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.
• The Impact of Early-Life Access to Oral Polio Vaccines on Disability: Evidence from India with Mayanka Ambade and S.V. Subramanian.
  Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming.
• Mining and Women's Agency: Evidence on Acceptance of Domestic Violence and Shared Decision-Making in India with Amanda Guimbeau, James Ji and Yana Rodgers.
  World Development, 2023, 162, 106135.
• Coal Plants, Air Pollution and Anemia: Evidence from India with Gaurav Datt, Pushkar Maitra and Ranjan Ray.
  Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59(4), 533-551.
• Income and Views on Minimum Living Standards with David W. Johnston.
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 199, 18-34.
• The Impact of Climate Change on Children's Nutritional Status in Coastal Bangladesh with S.M. Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi and Agnes Quisumbing.
  Social Science and Medicine, 2022, 294, 114704.
• Short and Medium-Run Health and Literacy Impacts of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic in Brazil with Amanda Guimbeau and Aldo Musacchio.
  The Economic History Review, 2022, 1-29, DOI:0.1111/ehr.13155.
• Echo Effects of Health Shocks: The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal and Early-Life Malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward Famine in China with Jinhu Li.
  Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58(3), 454-481.
• Does BMI Predict the Early Spatial Variation and Intensity of Covid-19 in Developing Countries? Evidence from India.
  Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100990.
• Christianity and Girl Child Health in India with Kathleen McQueeney.
  World Development, 2020, 136, 105109.
• The Winter's Tale: Season of Birth Impacts on Children in China with Pushkar Maitra and Chau Tran.
  Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/712491.
• Labor Market Engagement and the Body Mass Index of Working Adults: Evidence from India with Archana Dang and Pushkar Maitra.
  Economics and Human Biology, 2019, 33, 58-77.
• Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation: Theory and an Example with Mark Pitt.
  Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81(3), 511-539.
• Child Labor and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from India with Yana Rodgers.
  Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46(2), 480-494.
• The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Male and Female Employment and Earnings in India with Yana Rodgers.
  Asian Development Review, 2017, 34(1), 28-64.
• Land Reform and Welfare in Vietnam: Why Gender of the Land Rights Holder Matters with Yana Rodgers and Alexis Kennedy.
  Journal of International Development, 2017, 29(4), 454-472.
• Gender and Technology Use in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firms in Kenya.
  Journal of Economic Development, 2015, 40(3), 105-140.
• Religion and Health in Early Childhood: Evidence from South Asia with Elizabeth Brainerd.
  Population and Development Review, 2015, 41(3), 439-463.
• War and Women's Work: Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal with Yana Rodgers.
  Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2015, 59(1), 51-73.
• The "State" of Persons with Disabilities in India with Susan Parish and Roderick Rose.
  Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2014, 15(4), 391-412.
• Seasonal Effects of Water Quality: The Hidden Costs of the Green Revolution to Infant and Child Health in India with Elizabeth Brainerd.
  Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 107, 49-64.
• Women's Land Rights and Children's Human Capital in Vietnam with Yana Rodgers and Huong Nguyen.
  World Development, 2014, 54, 18-31.
• Technology Use and Firms with Female Principal Owners in Kenya
  Journal of African Development, 2013, 15(2), 19-60.
• Labor Regulations and Job Quality: Evidence from India with Yana Rodgers.
  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66(4), 933-957.
• Impact of the 2008-2009 Twin Economic Crises on the Philippines Labor Market with Yana Rodgers.
  World Development, 2012, 40(11), 2318-2328.
• How Access to Credit Affects Self-Employment: Differences by Gender during India's Rural Banking Reform with Yana Rodgers.
  Journal of Development Studies, 2011, 47(1), 48-69.
  On-line Appendix
• Investment Credit and Child Labor
  Applied Economics, 2010, 42(12), 1461-1479.
• Public Programs Pare Poverty: Evidence from Chile with David Glick.
  Bulletin of Economic Research, 2009, 61(3), 249-282.
• International Trade and the Gender Wage Gap: New Evidence from India's Manufacturing Sector with Yana Rodgers.
  World Development, 2009, 37(5), 965-981.
• Rainfall Uncertainty and Occupational Choice in Agricultural Households of Rural Nepal
  Journal of Development Studies, 2009, 45(6), 864-888.
• Learning, Diversification, and the Nature of Risk with Narayanan Subramanian.
  Economic Theory, 2008, 35(1), 117-145.
• The Relationship between Labor Unionization and the Number of Working Children in India
  Indian Economic Journal, 2007, 54(3), 133-151.
• Labor Conflicts and Foreign Investments: An Analysis of FDI in India with Paroma Sanyal.
  Review of Development Economics, 2007, 11(4), 629-644.
• Inter-dependencies in Micro-Credit Groups: Evidence from Repayment Data
  Journal of Developing Areas, 2007, 40(2), 111-132.
• Long Term Benefits of Membership in Microfinance Programs
  Journal of International Development, 2006, 18, 571-594.
• Non-Linearities in Returns to Participation in Grameen Bank Programs
  Journal of Development Studies, 2006, 42(8), 1379-1400.
• Labor Disputes and the Economics of Firm Geography: A Study of Domestic Investment in India with Paroma Sanyal.
  Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 53(4), 825-854.

Invited Papers
• Portliness Amidst Poverty: Evidence from India with Pushkar Maitra.
  Arthaniti - Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, 2019, 18(2), 138-170.

Chapters and Articles in Edited Volumes
• International Trade and Women Workers with Yana Rodgers.
  in Gunseli Berik and Ebru Kongar (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics.
  New York and London: Routledge Press, forthcoming.
• The Geography of Excess Weight in Urban India: Regional Patterns and Labor Market and Dietary Correlates with Pushkar Maitra and Archana Dang.
  in Amit Batabyal (ed.), Disease, Human Health, and Regional Growth and Development in Asia, New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives 38.
  New York: Springer, 2019, pp 47-69.
• Women's Labor Market Status and Economic Development with Yana Rodgers.
  in Susan Averett, Laura Argys and Saul Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women.
  New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 699-730.
• Credit and Self-Employment with Yana Rodgers.
  in Deborah M. Figart and Tonia Warnecke (eds.), Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life.
  Northampton, MA, and London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013, 359-377.
• Gender Inequality in the Labor Market During Economic Transition: Changes in India's Manufacturing Sector with Yana Rodgers.
  in Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labor Markets in Transition and Developing Economies: Emerging Policy and Analytical Issues.
  London and New York: Routledge Press, 2009, 341-363.
• Trade Policy Liberalization and Gender Equality in the Labor Market: New Evidence for India with Yana Rodgers.
  Rutgers University World Affairs Review, Fall 2008, Issue 3, 1-25.

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