Are Self-Reported Fertility Preferences Biased? Evidence from Indirect Elicitation Methods (with Wen Qiang Toh, Inuwa Jalingo, Aurélia Lépine, Aureo de Paula, and Grant Miller). 2024. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (34).

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Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions (with Damien de Walque). 2023. World Bank blog. VoxDev column.  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy,15 (3): 256-85.

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Individual Consumption in Collective Households: Identification Using Repeated Observations with an Application to PROGRESA (with Senay Sokullu). 2022. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 37(2), 286-304.

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Primary Education Expansion and Quality of Schooling. 2019. Economics of Education Review 73:101913.

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Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception are Substitutes (with Grant Miller). 2016. Demography,  53(4), 979-1009.

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Do the Maths: An analysis of the gender gap in mathematics in Africa (with Andy Dickerson and Steve McIntosh). 2015. Economics of Education Review, 46:1-22.

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Civil Conflict, Gender-Specific Fetal Loss, and Selection: A new test of the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis. 2015 . Journal of Health Economics, 39:31-50.

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Access to Abortion, Investments in Neonatal Health, and Sex Selection: Evidence from Nepal. 2014. Journal of Development Economics, 107:225-243.

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Education and Civil Conflict in Nepal. 2014. World Bank Economic Review, 28(2), pp. 354–383.

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Household Returns to Land Transfers in South Africa: A Q-squared analysis. 2011. Journal of Development Studies, 47(2), pp. 354-375.

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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India (With Sonia Bhalotra and Arthur van Soest). 2010. Journal of Health Economics, 29(2), pp. 191-204.

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The Food (In)Security Impact of Land Redistribution in South Africa: Microeconometric evidence from national data. 2009. World Development, 37( 9), pp. 1540-1553.