Publications
The Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Pollution on Children’s Human Capital: the Case of Indonesia, with Maggie Triyana (Forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources)
Impact of Early-Life Shocks on Human Capital Formation: Evidence from El Niño Floods in Ecuador (Forthcoming, Journal of Health Economics)
- Media or policy coverage: IADB blog Ideas Matter
Maternal Age and Child Achievement, with Greg Duncan, Ken Lee and Ariel Kalil (Forthcoming, Demography)
Family Investment Responses to Childhood Health Conditions: Intrafamily Allocation of Resources (Journal of Health Economics, September 2014)
Working Papers
How Do Early-Life Shocks Interact with Subsequent Human-Capital Investments? Evidence from Administrative Data, with Valentina Duque and Fabio Sanchez (Under review)
Reducing the Cost of Remoteness: The Effects of Community Health Workers Programs on Maternal and Children’s Health in Madagascar, with Catalina Herrera (Under review)
A Reanalysis of the Nurse-Family Partnership Program: The Memphis Randomized Control Trial (with James Heckman, Maggie Holland, Kevin Makino and Rodrigo Pinto). NBER Working Paper No. 23610
- Media or policy coverage: NYT Upshot, NPR, Washington Post, Edweek, Chalkbeat, SCPR
Selected Work in Progress
The Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of a School Construction Program in Indonesia, with Bhash Mazumder and Maggie Triyana
The Returns of an Additional Year of Schooling: The Case of State-Mandated Kindergarten, with Jade Jenkins