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Working Papers

2020

1. The Risk of Narrow, Disputable Results in the U.S. Electoral College: 1836-2020
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2019

2. Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836-2016
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2018

3. Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (32)

2016

4. Sanitation, Disease Externalities, and Anemia: Evidence From Nepal
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

2015

5. Neighborhood Sanitation and Infant Mortality
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (12)

2014

6. Place and child health: the interaction of population density and sanitation in developing countries
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Place and Child Health: The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries, Demography, Springer (2017) View citations (22) (2017)
7. What doesn't kill you makes you poorer: adult wages and the early-life disease environment in India
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)

2013

8. Effects of early-life exposure to sanitation on childhood cognitive skills: evidence from India's total sanitation campaign
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
9. How much international variation in child height can sanitation explain ?
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (86)
   Also in Working Papers, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Research Program in Development Studies. (2012) View citations (3)
   Working Papers, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Health and Wellbeing. (2012) View citations (14)
10. Village sanitation and children's human capital: evidence from a randomized experiment by the Maharashtra government
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)
11. Village sanitation externalities and children's human capital: Evidence from a randomized experiment by the Maharashtra government
    Working Papers, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Health and Wellbeing. View citations (6)

2012

12. WHO IS THE IDENTIFIABLE VICTIM?--CASTE INTERACTS WITH SYMPATHY IN INDIA
    Working papers, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2017

1. Making people happy or making happy people? Questionnaire-experimental studies of population ethics and policy
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, 49, (1), 145-169 View citations (9)
2. Place and Child Health: The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries
   Demography, 2017, 54, (1), 337-360 View citations (22)
   See also Working Paper Place and child health: the interaction of population density and sanitation in developing countries, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2014) View citations (4) (2014)
3. Switching to sanitation: Understanding latrine adoption in a representative panel of rural Indian households
   Social Science & Medicine, 2017, 188, (C), 41-50 View citations (13)

2016

4. Disease externalities and net nutrition: Evidence from changes in sanitation and child height in Cambodia, 2005–2010
   Economics & Human Biology, 2016, 23, (C), 235-245 View citations (8)
5. Village sanitation and child health: Effects and external validity in a randomized field experiment in rural India
   Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 48, (C), 135-148 View citations (43)
6. What doesn't kill you makes you poorer: Adult wages and early-life mortality in India
   Economics & Human Biology, 2016, 21, (C), 1-16 View citations (6)
7. Who Is the Identifiable Victim? Caste and Charitable Giving in Modern India
   Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64, (2), 299 - 321 View citations (6)

2015

8. Short-Term Labor Migration from Rural North India: Evidence from New Survey Data
   Population Research and Policy Review, 2015, 34, (3), 361-380 View citations (22)

2014

9. Decision costs and price sensitivity: Field experimental evidence from India
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 97, (C), 169-184 View citations (9)
10. Having a Son Promotes Clean Cooking Fuel Use in Urban India: Women's Status and Son Preference
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2014, 62, (4), 673 - 699 View citations (14)

2013

11. Caste, 'Cleanliness' and Cash: Effects of Caste-Based Political Reservations in Rajasthan on a Sanitation Prize
    Journal of Development Studies, 2013, 49, (11), 1592-1606 View citations (8)
12. Policy Lessons from the Implementation of India’s Total Sanitation Campaign
    India Policy Forum, 2013, 9, (1), 63-104 View citations (5)
13. Poverty and probability: aspiration and aversion to compound lotteries in El Salvador and India
    Experimental Economics, 2013, 16, (3), 263-284 View citations (4)

2012

14. Height and cognitive achievement among Indian children
    Economics & Human Biology, 2012, 10, (2), 210-219 View citations (39)

2011

15. Economic Decision-Making in Poverty Depletes Behavioral Control
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2011, 11, (1), 44 View citations (55)
16. Intertemporal Bounded Rationality as Consideration Sets with Contraction Consistency
    The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2011, 11, (1), 16 View citations (18)

Chapters

2015

1. The power of WASH: Why sanitation matters for nutrition
   Chapter 3 in 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report, 2015, pp 19-24 View citations (2)