Indoor air pollution (IAP) - predominantly from the use of solid fuel for cooking - is a global health threat, particularly for women and young children, and one of the leading causes of infant deaths worldwide in developing countries. We estimate the causal effect of cooking fuel choice on...

Concerns about the welfare of working children has over time produced a wide range of international and national interventions in the child labor market, culminating most recently in a commitment to eradicate the worst forms of child work via the attainment of target 8.7 of the Sustainable...

We investigate experimentally the effects of information about native/immigrant identity, and the ability to communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with British and Immigrant subjects in the UK we find that...

We analyse the effect of parental risk preferences and a novel measure of maternal bargaining power over educational expenses-elicited via lab-in-the-field experiments in rural Côte d'Ivoire-on the educational progression of boys and girls. Data from 135 couples and their children show that the...

This paper studies the education gradient associated with health reporting errors for two highly prevalent non-communicable diseases among older adults in India. We leverage a novel data set-the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (2017-18) panel survey-to unpack the sources of health reporting...

What drives livelihood diversification among predominantly rural households in developing countries and how can welfare-enhancing patterns be established and sustained in the long run? A large literature has focused on whether income diversification is a means of survival or a means of...

With the use of household level data from Bulgaria, treatment effect models and decomposition techniques, we explore the determinants of private transfers and their welfare implications. Our results are consistent with the altruistic hypothesis in that transfers allocate towards households with...