Published or Forthcoming Papers

Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy:

• Megiddo, I., A.R. Colson, A. Nandi, S. Chatterjee, S. Prinja, A. Khera, and R. Laxminarayan. 2014. “Analysis of the Universal Immunization Programme and Introduction of a Rotavirus Vaccine in India with Indiasim.” Vaccine 32(Supplement 1):A151-A161.
• Nandi, A., I. Megiddo, A. Ashok, A. Verma, and R. Laxminarayan. 2017. “Reduced Burden of Childhood Diarrheal Diseases through Increased Access to Water and Sanitation in India: A Modeling Analysis.” Social Science & Medicine. Forthcoming. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.08.049.
• Nandi, A., A. Ashok, S. Kinra, J.R. Behrman, and R. Laxminarayan. 2016. “Early Childhood Nutrition Is Positively Associated with Adolescent Educational Outcomes: Evidence from the Andhra Pradesh Child and Parents Study (APCAPS).” Journal of Nutrition 146(4):806-813.
• Nandi, A., J.R. Behrman, S. Bhalotra, A. Deolalikar, and R. Laxminarayan. 2016. “The Human Capital and Productivity Benefits of Early Childhood Nutritional Interventions.” in Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, Third Edition, Volume 3, Part II on “Causal Links between Risk Factors, Interventions, and Outcomes at Different Stages of Child and Adolescent
• Development, D. Jamison, H. Gelband, S. Horton, P. Jha, R. Laxminarayan, and R. Nugent. Washington, DC: World Bank. Forthcoming.
• Nandi, A., A.R. Colson, A. Verma, I. Megiddo, A. Ashok, and R. Laxminarayan. 2016. “Health and Economic Benefits of Scaling up a Home-Based Neonatal Care Package in Rural India: A Modelling Analysis.” Health Policy and Planning 31(5):634-644.

University of Essex:

• Maselko, J., S. Sikander, S. Bhalotra, O. Bangash, N. Ganga, S. Mukherjee, H. Egger, L. Franz, A. Bibi, R. Liaqat, M. Kanwal, T. Abbasi, M. Noor, N. Ameen, and A. Rahman. 2015. “Effect of an Early Perinatal Depression Intervention on Long-Term Child Development Outcomes: Follow-up of the Thinking Healthy Programme Randomised Controlled Trial.” The Lancet Psychiatry 2(7):609-617.
• Maselko, J., S. Sikander, O. Bangash, S. Bhalotra, L. Franz, N. Ganga, D.G. Rajan, K. O’Donnell, and A. Rahman. 2015. “Child Mental Health and Maternal Depression History in Pakistan.” Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 51(1):49-62.

University of Pennsylvania:

• Addo, O.Y., A.D. Stein, C.H.D. Fall, D.P. Gigante, A.M. Guntupalli, B.L. Horta, C.W. Kuzawa, N. Lee, S.A. Norris, C. Osmond, P. Prabhakaran, L.M. Richter, H.P. Sachdev, R. Martorell, and Cohorts Group. 2015. “Parental Childhood Growth and Offspring Birthweight: Pooled Analyses from Four Birth Cohorts in Low and Middle Income Countries.” American Journal of Human Biology 27(1):99-105. PMCID: PMC4310070.
• Akçinar, B. and N. Baydar. 2016. “Development of Externalizing Behaviors in the Context of Family and Non-Family Relationships.” Journal of Child and Family Studies 25(6):1848-1859.
• Akçinar, B. and N. Baydar. 2014. “Parental Control Is Not Unconditionally Detrimental for Externalizing Behaviors in Early Childhood.” International Journal of Behavioral Development 38(2):118-127.
• Alderman, H., J.R. Behrman, and C. Puett. 2016. “Big Numbers About Small Children: Estimating the Economic Benefits of Addressing Undernutrition.” World Bank Research Observer. Forthcoming.
• Alderman, H., J.R. Behrman, P. Glewwe, L.C.H. Fernald, and S. Walker. 2016. “Physical Growth and Child Development.” in Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, Third Edition, Volume 3, Part II on “Causal Links between Risk Factors, Interventions, and Outcomes at Different Stages of Child and Adolescent Development, D. Jamison, H. Gelband, S. Horton,
• P. Jha, R. Laxminarayan, and R. Nugent. Washington, DC: World Bank. Forthcoming.
• Alderman, H., J.R. Behrman, S. Grantham-McGregor, F. Lopez-Boo, and S. Urzua. 2014. “Economic Perspectives on Integrating Early Child Stimulation with Nutritional Interventions.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1308:129-138.
• Andersen, C.T., A.D. Stein, S.A. Reynolds, J.R. Behrman, B.T. Crookston, K.A. Dearden, M.E. Penny, W. Schott, and L.C.H. Fernald. 2016. “Stunting in Infancy Is Associated with Decreased Risk of High Body Mass Index for Age at 8 and 12 Years of Age.” The Journal of Nutrition 146(11):2296-2303. PMCID: PMC5086789. https://academic.oup.com/jn/article-abstract/146/11/2296/4584677.
• Andersen, C.T., S. Reynolds, J.R. Behrman, B. Crookston, K. Dearden, J. Escobal, L.C.H. Fernald, S. Mani, A. Sánchez, and A.D. Stein. 2015. “The Juntos Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Peru Is Associated with Improved Anthropometry but Not Cognitive Achievement among Children.” Journal of Nutrition. Forthcoming.
• Attanasio, O.P., J. Bentham, C. Fernández, E.O.A. Fitzsimons, S.M. Grantham-McGregor, C. Meghir, D. A. Warner, and M. Rubio-Codina. 2014. “Using the Infrastructure of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program to Deliver a Scalable Integrated Early Child Development Program in Colombia: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.” British Medical Journal 349.
• Attanasio, O.P., M. Rubio-Codina, C. Meghir, N. Varela, and S.M. Grantham-McGregor. 2015. “The Socio-Economic Gradient of Child Development: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Children 6-42 Months in Bogota.” Journal of Human Resources. Forthcoming. (An earlier working paper was released as: Rubio-Codina, M., O.P. Attanasio, C. Meghir, N. Varela, and S.M. Grantham-McGregor. 2013. “The Socio-Economic Gradient of Child Development: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Children 6-42 Months in Bogota.” Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank. IDB Working Paper Series, 527.)
• Baydar, N. and B. Akçinar. 2015. “Ramifications of Socioeconomic Differences for Three Year Old Children and Their Families in Turkey.” Early Childhood Research Quarterly 33:33-48.
• Baranov, V., D. Bennett, and H.-P. Kohler. 2015. “The Indirect Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy: Mortality Risk, Mental Health, and Hiv-Negative Labor Supply.” Journal of Health Economics 44:195-211.
• Behrman, J.A. 2014. “The Effect of Increased Primary Schooling on Adult Women’s HIV Status in Malawi and Uganda: Universal Primary Education as a Natural Experiment.” Social Science & Medicine 127:108-115. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795361400402X.
• Behrman, J.A. 2015. “Does Schooling Affect Women’s Desired Fertility? Evidence from Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia.” Demography 52(3):787-809.
• Behrman, J.A. 2015. “Do Targeted Stipend Programs Reduce Gender and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Schooling Attainment? Insights from Rural Bangladesh.” Demography 52(6):1917-1927.
• Behrman, J.A. and A. Weitzman. 2016. “Effects of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Women’s Reproductive Health.” Studies in Family Planning 47(1):3-17.
• Behrman, J.R., J. Hoddinott, J.A. Maluccio, E. Soler-Hampejsek, E.L. Behrman, R. Martorell, A.R. Quisumbing, M. Ramirez-Zea, and A.D. Stein. 2014. “What Determines Adult Skills? Influences of Pre-School, School, and Post-School Experiences in Guatemala.” Latin American Economic Review. 23(1).
• Behrman, J.R., W. Schott, S. Mani, B.T. Crookston, K.A. Dearden, L.T. Duc, L.C.H. Fernald, A.D. Stein, and The Young Lives Determinants and Consequences of Child Growth Project Team. 2015. “Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality: Parental Resources and Schooling Attainment and Children’s Human Capital in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam.” Economic Development and Cultural Change. Forthcoming.
• Behrman, J.R., Y. Xiong, and J. Zhang. 2015. “Cross-Sectional Schooling-Health Associations Misrepresented Causal Schooling Effects on Adult Health and Health-Related Behaviors: Evidence from the Chinese Adults Twins Survey.” Social Science & Medicine. Forthcoming.
• Bennett, I., W. Schott, S. Krutikova, and J.R. Behrman. 2015. “Maternal Mental Health and Child Growth and Development, in Four Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries.” Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Forthcoming.
• Crookston, B., R. Forste, C. McClellan, A. Georgiadis, and T. Heaton. 2014. “Factors Associated with Cognitive Achievement in Late Childhood and Adolescence: The Young Lives Cohort Study of Children in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam.” BMC Pediatrics 14(1):253.
• Crookston, B.T., W. Schott, S. Cueto, K.A. Dearden, P. Engle, A. Georgiadis, E. Lundeen, M. Penny, A.D. Stein, J.R. Behrman, and The Young Lives Determinants and Consequences of Child Growth Project Team. 2013. “Postinfancy Growth, Schooling, and Cognitive Achievement: Young Lives.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 98:1555-1563. (The American Society for Nutrition has prepared a Press Release to announce the publication in December 2013 of the following GCC project paper and an Accompanying Editorial.)
• Cueto, S., J. León, A. Miranda, K.A. Dearden, B.T. Crookston, and J.R. Behrman. 2016. “Does Pre-School Improve Cognitive Abilities among Children with Early-Life Stunting? A Longitudinal Study for Peru.” International Journal of Educational Research. 75:102-114.
• Dasgupta, U. and S. Mani. 2015. “Only Mine or All Ours: Do Stronger Entitlements Affect Altruistic Choices in the Household.” World Development 67:363-375.
• Dearden, K.A., A.T. Brennan, J.R. Behrman, W. Schott, B.T. Crookston, D.L. Humphries, M.E. Penny, L.C.H. Fernald, and the Young Lives Determinants and Consequences of Child Growth Project Team. 2017. “Does Household Access to Improved Water and Sanitation in Infancy and Childhood Predict Better Vocabulary Test Performance in Ethiopian, Indian, Peruvian, and Vietnamese Cohort Studies?” BMJ Open. Forthcoming.
• Georgiadis, A., L. Benny, L.T. Duc, S. Galab, P. Reddy, and T. Woldehanna. 2017. “Growth Recovery and Faltering Though Early Adolescence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Determinants and Implications for Cognitive Development.” Social Science & Medicine. Forthcoming. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953617301296.
• Georgiadis, A., L. Benny, B.T. Crookston, L.T. Duc, P. Hermida, S. Mani, T. Woldehanna, A.D. Stein, and J.R. Behrman. 2016. “Growth Trajectories from Conception to Middle Childhood and Cognitive Skills at Age 8 Years: Evidence from Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries.” Social Science & Medicine: Population Health 2:43-54.
• Griffen, A.S. 2016. “Height and Calories in Early Childhood.” Economics & Human Biology 20:55-69.
• Güneş, P.M. 2015. “The Role of Maternal Education in Child Health: Evidence from a Compulsory Schooling Law.” Economics of Education Review 47(0):1-16.
• Güneş, P.M. 2015. “The Impact of Female Education on Teenage Fertility: Evidence from Turkey.” The B.E. Journal of Economic Policy & Analysis. Forthcoming.
• Hannum, E. and Y. Xie. 2016. “Chapter 20: Education.” Pp. 462-485 in Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty, D. Brady and L. Burton. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Ho, J.Y. 2015. “Early-Life Environmental Exposures and Height, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors among Older Adults in India.” Biodemography and Social Biology 61(2):121-146. PMCID: PMC4545224.
• Hoddinott, J., J. Maluccio, J.R. Behrman, R. Martorell, P. Melgar, A.R. Quisumbing, M. Ramirez-Zea, A.D. Stein, and K.M. Yount. 2013. “Adult Consequences of Growth Failure in Early Childhood.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 98(5):1170-1178.
• Hoddinott, J., H. Alderman, J.R. Behrman, L. Haddad, and S. Horton. 2013. “The Economic Rationale for Investing in Stunting Reduction.” Maternal and Child Nutrition 9(Suppl. 2):69-82.
• Horton, S. and C. Levin. 2016. “Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions for Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health.” Pp. 319-334 in Disease Control Priorities (3rd Edition): Volume 2, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, R. Black, R. Laxminarayan, M. Temmerman, and N. Walker. Washington, DC: World Bank.
• Hu, L.-C. and E. Hannum. 2017. “Correlates and Implications of Grade Retention in Rural Northwest China.” in Sociological Dimensions of Rural and Rural Migrant Education in China, P.
• Kong, G. Postiglione, and E. Hannum. Oxford: Routledge. Forthcoming.
• Humphries, D.L., J.R. Behrman, B.T. Crookston, K.A. Dearden, W. Schott, M.E. Penny, and on behalf of the Young Lives Determinants and Consequences of Child Growth Project Team. 2014. “Households among All Income Quintiles, Especially the Poorest, Increased Animal Source Food Expenditures Substantially During Recent Peruvian Economic Growth.” PLoS ONE. Forthcoming.
• Kagawa, R., L.C.H. Fernald, and J.R. Behrman. 2016. “Weight Status and Behavioral Problems among Very Young Children in Chile.” PLoS ONE. Forthcoming.
• Lee, A., S. Horton, Bhutta, and C. Victora. 2015. “Nutrition in Adolescence.” in Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, Third Edition, Volume 3, Child and Adolescent Development, D. Jamison, H. Gelband, S. Horton, P. Jha, R. Laxminarayan, and R. Nugent. Washington, DC: World Bank. Forthcoming.
• Liu, X., J.R. Behrman, A.D. Stein, L.S. Adair, S.K. Bhargava, J.B. Borja, M. Freitas da Silveira, B.L. Horta, R. Martorell, S.A. Norris, L.M. Richter, and H.S. Sachdev. 2017. “Prenatal Care and Child Growth and Schooling in Four Low- and Medium-Income Countries.” PloS ONE. Forthcoming.
• Lopez-Boo, F., J.R. Behrman, and C. Vazquez. 2017. “Cost of Inaction (COI) for Reducing Inequities in Stunting.” Lancet Web Appendix. Forthcoming.
• Lopez-Boo, F., J.R. Behrman, and C. Vazquez. 2017. “The Cost of Inaction in Early Childhood Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Lancet Web Appendix. Forthcoming.
• Lundeen, E.A., J.R. Behrman, B.T. Crookston, K.A. Dearden, P. Engle, A. Georgiadis, M.E. Penny, A.D. Stein, and The Young Lives Determinants and Consequences of Child Growth Project Team. 2013. “Growth Faltering and Recovery in Children Ages 1 to 8 Y in Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Young Lives.” Public Health Nutrition 17(9):2131-2137.
• Lundeen, E.A., A.D. Stein, L.S. Adair, J.R. Behrman, S.K. Bhargava, K.A. Dearden, D. Gigante, S.A. Norris, L.M. Richter, C.H. Fall, R. Martorell, H.S. Sachdev, and C.G. Victora. 2014. “Height-for-Age Z Scores Increase Despite Increasing Height Deficits among Children in 5 Developing Countries.” The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Forthcoming. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/100/3/821/4576466.
• Majid, M.F. 2015. “The Persistent Effects of in Utero Nutrition Shocks over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting.” Journal of Development Economics 117:48-57.
• Mani, S. 2014. “Socioeconomic Determinants of Child Health – Empirical Evidence from Indonesia.” Asian Economic Journal 28(1):81-104.
• Penny, M.E., M.M. Jimenez, and R.M. Marin. 2016. “Early Rapid Weight Gain and Subsequent Overweight and Obesity in Middle Childhood in Peru.” BMC Obesity 3:55. PMCID: PMC5155392. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5155392/.
• Puentes, E., F. Wang, J.R. Behrman, F. Cunha, J. Hoddinott, J.A. Maluccio, L.S. Adair, J.B. Borja, R. Martorell, and A.D. Stein. 2016. “Early Life Height and Weight Production Functions with Endogenous Energy and Protein Inputs.” Economics & Human Biology 22:65-81.
• Schott, W.B., B.T. Crookston, E.A. Lundeen, A.D. Stein, J.R. Behrman, and the Young Lives Determinants and Consequences of Child Growth Project Team. 2013. “Periods of Child Growth up to Age 8 Years in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Key Distal Household and Community Factors.” Social Science & Medicine 97:278-287.
• Stein, A.D. 2014. “Nutrition in Early Life and Cognitive Functioning.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Forthcoming. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/99/1/1/4577227
• Stein, A.D. 2014. “Overweight in Children: A Growing Problem.” Journal de Pediatria (Rio de Janeiro). Epub ahead of print.
• Undurraga, E.A., J.R. Behrman, E.L. Grigorenko, A. Schultz, J. Yiu, TAPS Bolivia Study Team, and R.A. Godoy. 2013. “Math Skills and Market and Non-Market Outcomes: Evidence from an Amazonian Society of Forager-Farmers.” Economics of Education Review 37:138-147.
• Undurraga, E.A., J.R. Behrman, W.R. Leonard, and R.A. Godoy. 2016. “The Effects of Community Income Inequality on Health: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in the Bolivian Amazon.” Social Science & Medicine. Forthcoming.
• Weitzman, A. and J.A. Behrman. 2016. “Disaster, Disruption to Family Life, and Intimate Partner Violence: The Case of the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti.” Sociological Science 3:167-189.
• Zhang, H., J.R. Behrman, C.S. Fan, X. Wei, and J. Zhang. 2015. “Does Parental Absence Reduce Cognitive Achievements? Evidence from Rural China.” Journal of Development Economics 111:181-195.
• Zhang, R., E.A. Undurraga, W. Zeng, V. Reyes-García, S. Tanner, W.R. Leonard, J.R. Behrman, and R.A. Godoy. 2016. “Catch-up Growth and Growth Deficits: Nine-Year Annual Panel Child Growth for Native Amazonians in Bolivia.” Annals of Human Biology 43(4):304-315.