Health

Current Projects

Mental Health and Adolescent Schooling: Evidence from a Therapy Field Experiment in Nepal

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Location: Kailali, Kavre, and Surkhet, Nepal

Policy Partner: Centre for Mental Health Counselling

Researchers Involved: Eric Edmonds, Priya Mukherjee, Nikhilesh Prakash, and Shwetlena Sabarwal, Nishith Prakash

Incentives and Participation in Health Risk Assessments: Money Matters, But More Is Not Always Better

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Researchers Involved: Mariana Carrera, Silvia Prina

Incentives and Access: A Large Scale COVID 19 Vaccination Experiment in India

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Location: Bihar, India

Policy Partner: Health Department, Bihar

Researchers Involved: Jason Abaluck, Santosh Akhauri, Shubhro Bhattacharya, Emily Crawford, Aritra Das, Laura Kwong, Tanmay Mahapatra, Mushfiq Mobarak, Narottam Pradhan, Nishith Prakash, Maha Rehman, Manvendra Singh, Ephraim Sutherland, Shana Warren

Research Projects

Nishith Prakash

Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India (with Santosh Kumar), in Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 185, July 2017, pp. 171 – 178.

Do School Lunch Subsidies Change the Dietary Patterns of Children from Low-Income Households? (with Larry Howard), in Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 30 (3), July 2012, pp. 362 – 381.

Impact of the Village Health and Sanitation Committee on Health-Care Utilization: Findings from Propensity Score Matching in India (with Santosh Kumar), in The Lancet, Vol. 381 (2), 17 – 19 June 2013, pp. S77.

Silvia Prina

Passing the Message: Peer Outreach about COVID-19 Precautions in Zambia with Alfredo Burlando, Pradeep Chintagunta, Melissa Graboyes, Jessica Goldberg, Dean Karlan, and Mario Macis conditionally accepted, Journal of Development Economics

The Importance of Parental Knowledge and Social Norms: Evidence from Weight Report Cards in Mexico with Heather Royer Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37: 232-247

C-Sections, Obesity, and Health-Care Specialization: Evidence from Mexico with Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Fernanda Marquez-Padilla forthcoming, World Bank Economic Review

Do Health Risk Assessments Change Eating Habits at the Workplace? with Mariana Carrera and Ayesha Hasan Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 172: 236-246

Incentives and Participation in Health Risk Assessments: Money Matters, But More Is Not Always Better with Mariana Carrera (WiP)