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Workplace:Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2023

  1. Effect of a Lottery Intervention on Gender-Based Violence among Female Sex Workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Results from a Randomized Trial
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank Downloads
  2. Effects of a Lottery Incentive on Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV Incidence among Female Sex Workers in Tanzania: Results from the RESPECT II Randomized Trial
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank Downloads
  3. Influence of COVID-19 on Female Sex Workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank Downloads
  4. Reducing Bias Among Health Care Providers: Experimental Evidence From Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and Pakistan
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (1)

2019

  1. Can Economic Policies Reduce Deaths of Despair?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (17)

2017

  1. Social preferences of future physicians
    Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley Downloads View citations (30)

2014

  1. Coping with risk: the effects of shocks on reproductive health and transactional sex in rural Tanzania
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank Downloads View citations (4)
  2. Rewarding safer sex: conditional cash transfers for HIV/STI prevention
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank Downloads View citations (4)

2012

  1. Incentivising safe sex: a randomised trial of conditional cash transfers for HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention in rural Tanzania
    Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley Downloads View citations (39)
  2. Sexual behavior change intentions and actions in the context of a randomized trial of a conditional cash transfer for HIV prevention in Tanzania
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank Downloads View citations (3)
  3. Stimulating Demand for AIDS Prevention: Lessons from the RESPECT Trial
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (6)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2012) Downloads View citations (6)

    See also Chapter Stimulating Demand for AIDS Prevention: Lessons from the RESPECT Trial, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014) Downloads View citations (2) (2014)

2011

  1. The Labor Market Impact of Employer Health Benefit Mandates: Evidence from San Francisco's Health Care Security Ordinance
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (5)

2010

  1. How Do Employers React to A Pay-or-Play Mandate? Early Evidence from San Francisco
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (1)
    Also in Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley (2010) Downloads

    See also Journal Article How Do Employers React to a Pay-or-Play Mandate? Early Evidence from San Francisco, Forum for Health Economics & Policy, De Gruyter (2013) Downloads (2013)

2003

  1. Aggregation and Insurance Mortality Estimation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (5)

1997

  1. Health Care Prices, Health and Labor Outcomes: Experimental Evidence
    Working Papers, RAND - Labor and Population Program View citations (32)
  2. Health investment complementarities under competing risks
    Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Downloads View citations (2)

1996

  1. Unconditional Demand for Health Care in Cote d'Ivoire. Does Selection on Health Status Matter?
    Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (6)

1995

  1. Death, tetanus, and aerobics: The evaluation of disease-specific health interventions
    Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Downloads
  2. Discrete Choice Estimation of Price-Elasticities: The Benefits of Flexible Behavioral Model of Health Care Demand
    Working Papers, RAND - Labor and Population Program View citations (3)
    Also in Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (1995) Downloads View citations (3)
    Working Papers, Yale - Economic Growth Center (1995) View citations (3)
  3. Disease Complementarities and the Evaluation of Public Health Interventions
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (1)
  4. Tetanus, Death and Aerobics: The Evaluation of Disease-Specific Public Health Interventions
    Working Papers, Yale - Economic Growth Center
  5. Unconditional Demand for Curative Health Inputs: Does Selection on Health Status Matter in the Long Run?
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center Downloads View citations (9)
    Also in Working Papers, RAND - Labor and Population Program (1995) View citations (9)
    Working Papers, Yale - Economic Growth Center (1995) View citations (9)
  6. Welfare Impacts of Health Care User Fees: A Health-Valuation Approach to Analysis with Imperfect Markets
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center Downloads View citations (2)
    Also in Working Papers, RAND - Labor and Population Program (1995) View citations (2)
    Working Papers, Yale - Economic Growth Center (1995) View citations (2)

Journal Articles

2022

  1. Evaluating the Effect of San Francisco’s Paid Parental Leave Ordinance on Birth Outcomes
    IJERPH, 2022, 19, (19), 1-12 Downloads View citations (1)
  2. Race/Ethnic Differences, Skin Tone, and Memory Among Older Latinos in the United States
    (Neuropsychological comparisons of Spanish-speaking participants from the US–Mexico border region versus Spain)
    The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2022, 77, (11), 2038-2048 Downloads

2021

  1. A randomized trial of cash incentives for sexual behavior change among female sex workers in Dar es Salaam
    Social Science & Medicine, 2021, 272, (C) Downloads
  2. Moving away from the "unit cost". Predicting country-specific average cost curves of VMMC services accounting for variations in service delivery platforms in sub-Saharan Africa
    PLOS ONE, 2021, 16, (4), 1-17 Downloads

2020

  1. Can Labor Market Policies Reduce Deaths of Despair?
    Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 74, (C) Downloads View citations (27)

2019

  1. Coping with risk: Negative shocks, transactional sex, and the limitations of conditional cash transfers
    Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 67, (C) Downloads View citations (4)
  2. Correlates of longitudinal leukocyte telomere length in the Costa Rican Longevity Study of Healthy Aging (CRELES): On the importance of DNA collection and storage procedures
    PLOS ONE, 2019, 14, (10), 1-18 Downloads
  3. Do remittances alleviate negative impacts of disaster on mental health? A case of the 2015 Nepal earthquake
    Social Science & Medicine, 2019, 238, (C), - Downloads View citations (3)
  4. Stata tip 134: Multiplicative and marginal interaction effects in nonlinear models
    Stata Journal, 2019, 19, (4), 1015-1020 Downloads View citations (4)
  5. The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
    PLOS Medicine, 2019, 16, (1), 1-18 Downloads View citations (4)

2018

  1. Cash incentives versus defaults for HIV testing: A randomized clinical trial
    PLOS ONE, 2018, 13, (7), 1-10 Downloads View citations (1)
  2. Do incentives undermine intrinsic motivation? Increases in intrinsic motivation within an incentive-based intervention for people living with HIV in Tanzania
    PLOS ONE, 2018, 13, (6), 1-15 Downloads View citations (2)

2017

  1. Education Gains Attributable to Fertility Decline: Patterns by Gender, Period, and Country in Latin America and Asia
    Demography, 2017, 54, (4), 1353-1373 Downloads View citations (4)
  2. Female sex workers use power over their day-to-day lives to meet the condition of a conditional cash transfer intervention to incentivize safe sex
    Social Science & Medicine, 2017, 181, (C), 148-157 Downloads View citations (3)
  3. Stimulating Parenting Practices in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Mexican Communities
    IJERPH, 2017, 15, (1), 1-16 Downloads
  4. The Labor-Market Impact of San Francisco's Employer-Benefit Mandate
    Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2017, 56, (1), 122-160 Downloads View citations (1)

2016

  1. A cross-national comparison of 12 biomarkers finds no universal biomarkers of aging among individuals aged 60 and older
    Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2016, 14, (1), 255-277 Downloads
  2. No Spillover Effect of the Foreclosure Crisis on Weight Change: The Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE)
    PLOS ONE, 2016, 11, (3), 1-11 Downloads

2015

  1. Colla et al. respond
    American Journal of Public Health, 2015, 105, (5), e1-e2 Downloads

2014

  1. Early effects of the San Francisco paid sick leave policy
    American Journal of Public Health, 2014, 104, (12), 2453-2460 Downloads View citations (17)
  2. The declining effect of sibling size on children's education in Costa Rica
    Demographic Research, 2014, 31, (48), 1431-1454 Downloads View citations (2)

2013

  1. How Do Employers React to a Pay-or-Play Mandate? Early Evidence from San Francisco
    Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2013, 14, (1), 2 Downloads
    Also in Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2011, 14, (1), 43 (2011) Downloads View citations (2)

    See also Working Paper How Do Employers React to A Pay-or-Play Mandate? Early Evidence from San Francisco, NBER Working Papers (2010) Downloads View citations (1) (2010)
  2. The Nicoya region of Costa Rica: a high longevity island for elderly males
    Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2013, 11, (1), 109-136 Downloads View citations (4)

2012

  1. Evolving Strategies, Opportunistic Implementation: HIV Risk Reduction in Tanzania in the Context of an Incentive-Based HIV Prevention Intervention
    PLOS ONE, 2012, 7, (8), 1-10 Downloads
  2. Long-term association of economic inequality and mortality in adult Costa Ricans
    Social Science & Medicine, 2012, 74, (2), 158-166 Downloads View citations (2)

2010

  1. Reinsurance for High Health Costs: Benefits, Limitations, and Alternatives
    Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2010, 13, (2), 23 Downloads View citations (7)

2009

  1. Surprising SES Gradients in Mortality, Health, and Biomarkers in a Latin American Population of Adults
    The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2009, 64B, (1), 105-117 Downloads View citations (23)

2008

  1. Income productivity in China: On the role of health
    Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27, (1), 27-44 Downloads View citations (40)

2006

  1. Health Savings Accounts:Implications for Health Spending*
    National Tax Journal, 2006, 59, (3), 463-75 Downloads View citations (3)

2005

  1. Longitudinal study of child immunization determinants in China
    Social Science & Medicine, 2005, 61, (3), 601-611 Downloads View citations (6)

2004

  1. Did the distribution of health insurance in China continue to grow less equitable in the nineties? Results from a longitudinal survey
    Social Science & Medicine, 2004, 58, (2), 293-304 Downloads View citations (19)
  2. Effect of drive-through delivery laws on postpartum length of stay and hospital charges
    Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23, (1), 129-155 Downloads View citations (12)
  3. Is cigarette smoking in poorer nations highly sensitive to price?: Evidence from Russia and China
    Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23, (1), 173-189 Downloads View citations (28)
  4. Use of deceptive tactics in physician practices: are there differences between international and US medical graduates?
    Health Policy, 2004, 67, (3), 257-264 Downloads

2003

  1. Health insurance and child mortality in Costa Rica
    Social Science & Medicine, 2003, 57, (6), 975-986 Downloads View citations (22)

1999

  1. Flexible Discrete Choice Demand Models Consistent With Utility Maximization: An Application to Health Care Demand
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1999, 81, (3), 680-685 Downloads View citations (9)
  2. Longevity Complementarities under Competing Risks
    American Economic Review, 1999, 89, (5), 1358-1371 Downloads View citations (59)

1996

  1. An empirical examination of the implications of assortative matching on the incidence of HIV
    Journal of Health Economics, 1996, 15, (6), 735-749 Downloads View citations (9)

Chapters

2014

  1. Stimulating Demand for AIDS Prevention: Lessons from the RESPECT Trial
    A chapter in African Successes, Volume II: Human Capital, 2014, pp 85-112 Downloads View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Stimulating Demand for AIDS Prevention: Lessons from the RESPECT Trial, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2012) Downloads View citations (6) (2012)
 
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