Published Work
| “Disease and Development Revisited” (with David Bloom and David Canning). Forthcoming: Journal of Political Economy. |
| “The Economic Case for Devoting Public Resources to Health” (with David Bloom). Forthcoming: .Manson’s Tropical Diseases, 23rd Edition |
| “Association between early childhood exposure to malaria and children’s pre-school development: evidence from the Zambia early childhood development project” (with Analia Olgiati, Moonga Hawela, John Miller and Beatrice Matafwali). Malaria Journal 2013 12:12. |
| “Feasibility of Distributing Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria in the Retail Sector: Evidence from an Implementation Study in Uganda”(with Jessica Cohen, Katrina Berg, Flavia Gloria Aber, Matthew Jordan, Kathleen Maloney and William Dickens). PLoS ONE 7(11): e48296. November 2012. |
| “Early Childhood Care, Child Development and School Readiness: Evidence from Zambia” (with Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski, Corrina Moucheraud and Beatrice Matafwali). Forthcoming: Education as Change: Journal of Curriculum Research. |
| “Assessing the Impact of Scaling up Bed Net Coverage through Agricultural Loan Programs: Evidence from a Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial in Katete, Zambia” (with Felix Masiye). Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 106(11):660- 7. November 2012. |
| “Income and Health in Accra, Ghana: Results from the Time Use and Health Study” (with John Weeks and Allan Hill). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 87(4):608-15. October 2012 |
| Saving a Life-Year and Reaching MDG 4 with Investments in Water and Sanitation. A Cost-effective Policy?” (with Isabel Günther). European Journal of Development Research. doi: 10.1057/ejdr.2012.24. August 2012 |
| “Health Insurance and Health-Seeking Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Community-based Insurance Rollout in Rural Burkina Faso” (with Paul Jacob Robyn, Ali Sié and Rainer Sauerborn), Social Science and Medicine. Volume 75, Issue 4, August 2012, Pages 595–603 |
| “When Urban Taps Run Dry: Sachet Water Consumption and Health Effects in Low Income Neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana” (with Justin Stoler, John R. Weeks, Richard Appiah Otoo, Joseph A. Ampofo and Allan G. Hill), Health and Place, 2012 Mar;18(2):250-62. |
| “Preventing Malaria in Pregnancy through Community-directed Interventions: Evidence from Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria” (with Joseph C Okeibunor, Bright C Orji, William Brieger, Gbenga Ishola, Emmanuel ‘Dipo Otolorin, Barbara Rawlins, Enobong U Ndekhedehe and Nkechi Onyeneho). Malaria Journal, 2011, 10:227 |
| “The effect of water and sanitation on child health: evidence from the demographic and health surveys 1986–2007” (with Isabel Günther and Kenneth Hill). International Journal of Epidemiology, June 2011, doi: 10.1093/ije/dyr102. |
| “Determinants of International Emergency Aid – Humanitarian Need Only?” (with Silvia Redaelli), World Development. 39(5), 741-757. May 2011 |
| “The Graying of Global Population and Its Macroeconomic Consequences” (with David Bloom and David Canning), ”Twenty-First Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences”, 2010, 5(3), 233 – 242. |
| “Urban Settlement: Data, Measures, and Trends” (with David Bloom, David Canning, Tarun Khanna, and Patrick Salyer), in: Beall J, Guha-Khasnobis B, Kanbur R., Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| “Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth”, (with David Bloom and David Canning), Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 26(4), 583–612. 2010 |
| “The Cost of Low Fertility in Europe” (with David Bloom, David Canning and Jocelyn Finlay). European Journal of Population, 26(2), 141-158. March 2010 |
| “Population Aging and Economic Growth”, (with David Bloom and David Canning) forthcoming in “Global Challenges and Growth”, Michael Spence and Danny Leipziger (eds.), Commission on Growth and Development. July 2010. |
| “Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend,” (with David Bloom, David Canning and Jocelyn Finlay), Journal of Economic Growth, 14(2),79-101, June 2009. |
| “Elite Institutions and Inequality,” (with Andreas Bergh), European Economic Review 53. 376–384, April 2009. |
| “Higher Education Policy, Enrollment and Income Inequality,” (with Andreas Bergh), Social Science Quarterly, 89(1), 217-235, March 2008 |
| “Urbanization and the Wealth of Nations” (with David E. Bloom and David Canning), Science, vol. 319, no. 5864, 772 – 775, February 8, 2008 |
| “Does Age Structure Forecast Economic Growth?” (with David Bloom, David Canning and Jocelyn Finlay), International Journal of Forecasting, 23(4), 569-585, December 2007 |