Standard theories of resource allocation within the household posit that parents' investments in their children reflect a combination of children's endowments and parents' preferences for child quality. We study how changes in children's cognitive endowments affect the distribution of parental...

We estimate the effects of higher quality healthcare usage on health, labor supply and schooling outcomes for sick individuals in Tanzania. Using exogenous variation in the cost of formal sector healthcare to predict treatment choice, we show that using better quality care improves health...

I show that malaria misdiagnosis, common in resource-poor settings, decreases the expected effectiveness of an important new therapy - since only a fraction of treated individuals have malaria - and reduces the rate of learning via increased noise. Using pilot program data from Tanzania, I...