Research

Publications in Economics


Journal of Development Economics (2020)

World Bank Economic Review (2019).

With Gary Burtless

Soc. Sec. Bull. 73 (2013): 83.

With Barry Bosworth

Washington, Brookings (2011)

Publications in Health

Fall injuries in Sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of prospective injury registry from 23 health facilities in Malawi and Tanzania 

With Hendry R. Sawe, Wakisa Mulwafu, Linda Chokotho, Kevin Croke, Rachel Chamanga, Meyhar Mohammed, Jonna Bertfelt, Harrieth P. Ndumwa, and Juma A. Mfinanga 

BMC emergency medicine 23, no. 1 (2023): 42. 

The importance of Maintenance: Geospatial Analysis of Cholera Risk and Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Harare, Zimbabwe 

With Joseph, George, Hugh Riddell, Faith Maidei Kashangura, Sophie Ayling and Yi Rong Hoo

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. (2023).

Epidemiology of adult trauma injuries in Malawi: Results from a Multi-site Trauma Registry

With Croke, Kevin, Linda Chokotho, Jonna Bertfelt, Saahil Karpe, Meyhar Mohammed, and Wakisa Mulwafu

Injury Epidemiology. 9.1 (2022). 

Paediatric Trauma Burden in Tanzania: Analysis of Prospective Registry Data from Thirteen Health Facilities 

With Hendry R. Sawe, Kevin Croke, Saahil Karpe, and Juma A. Mfinanga 

Injury Epidemiology. 9.1 (2022). 

Burden of road traffic injuries in Tanzania: one-year prospective study of consecutive patients in 13 multilevel health facilities 

With Hendry R. Sawe, Kevin Croke, Saahil Karpe, Meyhar Mohammed, and Juma A. Mfinanga 

Emergency medicine international, 2021. 

With Kevin Croke, Linda Chokotho, Jonna Bertfelt, Saahil Karpe, Meyhar Mohammed, and Wakisa Mulwafu 

The International Journal of Health Management and Planning (2020)


Publications in Data Science

Scale matters: Variations in spatial and temporal patterns of epidemic outbreaks in agent-based models 

With Sarah Wise, Sophie Ayling, and Robert Manning Smith

Journal of Computational Science 69 (2023): 101999.   

The importance of Scaling for an Agent Based Model: an illustrative case study with COVID-19 in Zimbabwe 

With Sarah Wise and Sophie Ayling 

International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS). 2022. 

Challenges and opportunities in accessing mobile phone data for COVID-19 response in developing countries.” 

With Anat Lewin, Tania Begazo Gomez, Dunstan Matekenya, and Kyla Reid 

Data & Policy, (2021) 3. 

Assessing Bias in Smartphone Mobility Estimates in Low Income Countries 

With Daniel Bjorkegren, and Leonardo Viotti 

ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. 2021. 


With Robert Marty, Guadalupe Bedoya, Elizabeth Resor, Sarah Williams and Arianna Legovini

PloS One (2021)


Working Papers

With Guadalupe Bedoya, Amy Dolinger, Caitlin Dolkart, Arianna Legovini, Robert Marty, and Peter Taniform 


Conscientiousness and Labor Market Returns: Evidence from a Field Experiment in West Africa 

With Mathias Allemand, Martina Kirchberger, Carol Newman, Brent Roberts, and Vincent Thorne 


Estimating spatially disaggregated probability of severe COVID-19 and the impact of handwashing interventions 

With George Joseph, Hugh Sturrock, Tonderai Mapoko, Sophie Charlotte Amy Ayling, and Yi Rong Hoo 


With Fernanda Martinez Flores and Arndt R. Reichert


With Elisabeth zu Erbach-Schoenberg, Linus Bengtsson Erik Wetter, Andy Tatem


Household recombination, retrospective evaluation, and educational mobility over 40 years

With Andrew Foster


Long-Term Effects of the Matlab Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning Program on Cohort Survival and Health

With Jane Menken, Randall Kuhn, Patrick S. Turner, Tania Barham, Abdur Razzaque, Elisabeth Dowling Root, Andrew Foster, Warren Jochem, Gisella Kagy, Nobuko Mizoguchi


Work in Progress

Subsidizing Prices when Consumers Prepay: Evidence from Bus Rapid Transit in Bogota, Colombia with William Violette 

Bias in Measuring Population Movement Using Mobile Phone Data: Utilization of Randomly Generated "Robo-calls"