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Manisha Shah

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Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy

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Mainsha Shah is a development economist whose primary research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health, and development. She originally received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. She has written several papers on the economics of sex markets in order to learn how more effective policies and programs can be deployed to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. She also works in the area of child health and education. Shah has been the PI on various impact evaluations and randomized controlled trials and is currently leading projects in Tanzania, Indonesia, and India. She has also worked extensively in Ecuador and Mexico. Her research has been supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the World Bank, and the National Science Foundation, among others. She is an editor at Journal of Health Economics and an Associate Editor at The Review of Economics and Statistics. Follow Shah on Twitter @Manisha_econ.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Applied Microeconomics
  • International Development
  • Global Health

Curriculum Vitae

Research

Selected Publications

Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Causal Evidence from Life Skills Programming

with S. Baird, J. Seager, B. Avuwadah, J. Hamory, S. Sabarwal, and A. Vyas, in the Journal of Human Resources.

Reminders, but not Monetary Incentives, Increase COVID-19 Booster Uptake

with T. Chang, M. Jacobson, M. Kopetsky, R. Pramanik, and S. Shah, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2023, 120(31).

Unintended Consequences of Lockdowns: COVID-19 and the Shadow Pandemic

with S. Ravindran, Nature Human Behaviour. March 2023, 7(3).

The Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation: The Effect of Village Sanitation on Child Height from Field Experiments in Four Countries

(with P. Gertler, M. Alzua, L. Cameron, S. Martinez, and S. Patil)  Journal of Development Economics. November 2022, 159.

Aggregate Effects from Public Works: Evidence from India

with J. Cook, The Review of Economics and Statistics. July 2022, 104(4).

Working Papers

“Sex, Power, and Adolescence: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Behaviors,” with J. Seager, J. Montalvao, and M. Goldstein, 2023.

Co-authors: Seager, Montalvao , Goldstein

Working Paper (August 2023)

“Violent Discipline and Parental Behavior: Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers,” (with L Dinarte-Diaz, S. Ravindran, S Powers, and H Baker-Henningham) 2023.

Co-authors: Diaz, Ravindran, Powers, Baker-Henningham

Working Paper (June 2023)

“Reducing bias among health care providers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and Pakistan,” (with Z. Wagner, C. Moucheraud, A. Wollum, W. Friedman, and W. Dow), 2023.

Co-authors: Wagner, Moucheraud, Wollum, Friedman, Dow

Working Paper (May 2023)

Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor (with N. Bau, M. Rotemberg, and B. Steinberg), 2020. NBER Working Paper 27241.

Co-authors: Bau, Rotemberg, Steinberg

Working Paper (March 2021)

Policy Reports

Last updated on 08/16/2023