Publications

Bundorf, M. Kate, Jill DeMatteis, Grant Miller, Maria Polyakova, Jialu Streeter, and Jonathan Wivagg. “Risk Perceptions and Private Protective Behaviors: Evidence from COVID-19 Pandemic”, The Review of Economics and Statistics (Forthcoming), January 2025, 1-40. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01309.

Babiarz, Kimberly, Paul Ma, Grant Miller, and Shige Song. “The Limits and Consequences of Population Policy: Evidence from China’s Wan Xi Shao Campaign”, Review of Economics and Statistics (Forthcoming), January 2025.

Brooks, Nina, Debashish Biswas, Sameer Maithel, Sonal Kumar, Mohammad Uddin, Shoeb Ahmed, Moogdho Mahzab, Grant Miller, Mahbubur Rahman, and Stephen Luby. “Building Blocks of Change: The Energy, Health, and Climate Co-Benefits of More Efficient Brickmaking in Bangladesh”, Energy Research and Social Science, 117 (November 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103738.

Valente, Christine, Wen Toh, Inuwa Jalingo, Aurélia Lépine, Áureo de Paula, and Grant Miller. “Are Self-Reported Fertility Preferences Biased? Evidence from Indirect Elicitation Methods”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121, no. 34 (August 13, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2407629121.

Kopinska, Joanna, Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya, and Grant Miller. “The Changing Relationship Between Bodyweight and Longevity in High- and Low-Income Countries”, Economics and Human Biology, 54 (August 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101392.

Shrinivas, Aditya, Suhani Jalota, Aprajit Mahajan, and Grant Miller. “The Importance of Wage Loss in the Financial Burden of Illness: Longitudinal Evidence from India”, Social Science & Medicine, 317 (January 2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115583.

Brooks, Nina, Matt Gunther, Eran Bendavid, Elizabeth Boyle, Kathryn Grace, and Grant Miller. “US Global Health Aid Policy and Family Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa”, Science Advances, 9 (January 2023): eadk2684. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk2684.

Cutler, David, and Grant Miller. “Re-Examining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14, no. 2 (April 2022): 158-65. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20190711.

Bhalotra, Sonia, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Grant Miller, Alfonso Miranda, and Atheendar Venkataramani. “Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Lower-Income Countries: Evidence from Mexico’s Programa Agua Limpia”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13, no. 4 (November 2021): 490-520. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20180764.

Mohanan, Manoj, Katherine Donato, Grant Miller, Yulya Truskinovsky, and Marcos Vera-Hernández. “Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Maternal Health Care in India”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 13, no. 4 (October 2021): 34-69. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20190220.

Alsan, Marcella, Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya, Valentina Conti, Iván Mejía-Guevara, and Grant Miller. “Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Post-War Italy”, Demography, 58, no. 4 (August 2021): 1473–1498. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9368970.

Bingewar, Rohini, Sangeeta Kulkarni, Aprajit Mahajan, Reynaldo Martorell, Rukshan Mehta, Reshma Roshania, Grant Miller, Ashwini Shete, and Alessandro Tarozzi. “Agreement Between Dried Blood Spots and HemoCue in Tamil Nadu, India”, Scientific Reports, 11, no. 9285 (April 2021). https://doi.org/0.1038/s41598-021-88425-y.

Luo, Renfu, Grant Miller, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia, and Marcos Vera-Hernández. “Can Bureaucrats Really Be Paid Like CEOs? School Administrator Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 18, no. 1 (February 2020): 165-201. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvy047.

Brooks, MPP, Nina, Eran Bendavid, MD, and Grant Miller, PhD. “United States Aid Policy and Induced Abortion in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of the Mexico City Policy”, Lancet Global Health, 7, no. 8 (June 2019): 1046-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30267-0.

Babiarz, Kimberly, Paul Ma, Shige Song, and Grant Miller. “Population Sex Imbalance in China before the One Child Policy”, Demographic Research, 40, no. 13 (February 2019): 319-58. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2019.40.13.

Donato, Katherine, Grant Miller, Monoj Mohanan, Yulya Truskinovsky, and Marcos Vera-Hernández. “Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment Among Maternity Care Providers in India”, American Economic Review, 107, no. 5 (May 2017): 506-10. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20171105.

Mohanan, Manoj, Soledad Giardili, Veena Das, Tracy Rabin, Sunil Raj, Jeremy Schwartz, Aparna Seth, and Marcos Vera-Hernández. “Effect of a Social Franchising and Telemedicine Programme on Health Care Providers’ Knowledge Of, and Quality of Care For, Childhood Diarrhoea and Pneumonia in Bihar, India”, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 95 (March 2017): 343-52. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.179556.

Babiarz, Kimberly, Swaminatha Mahadevan, Nomita Divi, and Grant Miller. “Ambulance Service Associated With Reduced Probabilities of Neonatal and Infant Mortality in Two Indian States”, Health Affairs, 35, no. 10 (October 2016): 1774-82. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0564.

Mohanan, Manoj, Kimberly Babiarz, Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Grant Miller, and Marcos Vera-Hernández. “Effect of a Large-Scale Social Franchising and Telemedicine Program on Childhood Diarrhea and Pneumonia Outcomes in India”, Health Affairs, 35, no. 10 (October 2016): 1800-1809. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0481.

Miller, Grant, and Christine Valente. “Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception Are Substitutes”, Demography, 53 (July 2016): 979–1009. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0492-8.