Publications

Babiarz, Kimberly, Jessie Brunner, Luis de Assis, Victoria Ward, Mike Baiocchi, and Grant Miller. “The Prevalence and Characteristics of Labor Trafficking in Brazilian Agriculture”, Journal of Human Trafficking, 11, no. 4 (November 2025): 394-414. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2025.2567787.

Miller, Grant, Jack Shane, and Matthew Snipp. “The Impact of United States Assimilation and Allotment Policy on American Indian Mortality”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 122, no. 28 (July 2025). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418836122.

Brooks, Nina, Debashish Biswas, Sameer Maithel, Grant Miller, Aprajit Mahajan, M. Rofi Uddin, Shoeb Ahmed, Moogdho Mahzab, Mahbubur Rahman, and Stephen Luby. “Reducing Emissions and Air Pollution from Informal Brick Kilns: Evidence from Bangladesh”, Science, 388, no. 6747 (May 8, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adr7394.

Miller, Grant, Áureo De Paula, and Christine Valente. “Subjective Expectations and Demand for Contraception”, Journal of Econometrics, 249 (May 2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2025.105997.

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, March 2025, 1-13. 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.