Abstract Background As overdose deaths have increased in the United States, some lawmakers have explored punitive, “supply-side” interventions aimed at reducing the supply of fentanyl. …
Under what conditions do governments in weakly institutionalized new democracies implement programmatic social policies that provide benefits to excluded citizens? Can the successful implementation of …
This dissertation examines the production and circulation of policy evaluation as an instrument of democratic accountability in contemporary Mexico. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic …
This paper addresses one basic question about separated children: why do children separate from their families? We examine this question in the context of South …
How do politicians’ incentives and resources shape the type of policies that they adopt? One of the key redistributive roles of governments is to provide …
This dissertation shows how mobile phone data can be used in order to study the consequences of short term population movement. All three chapters use …
I study the effect of formal rules on individual behavior and social norms using lab-in-the-field and lab experiments. I use dictator games in my experiments …
Children in developing countries face a myriad of hardships including poverty, household economic shocks, and high disease burden. These adverse conditions curtail children’s human capital …
