Manisha Shah
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- Bachelors Economics Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Manisha Shah is an economist, as well as Vice-Chair and Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She received her PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in agricultural and resource economics in 2006. Additionally, she is the founding director of the Global Lab for Research in Action, an editor at the Journal of Health Economics as well as a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor, and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Manisha Shah's Published Works
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Published Works
- Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters (2013) (487)
- Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital (2013) (274)
- Risky Business: The Market for Unprotected Commercial Sex (2005) (260)
- Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health (2014) (172)
- Impact Evaluation of a Large-Scale Rural Sanitation Project in Indonesia (2013) (128)
- Nature’s experiment? Handedness and early childhood development (2009) (127)
- How Does Health Promotion Work? Evidence from the Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation (2015) (97)
- Unintended consequences of lockdowns, COVID-19 and the Shadow Pandemic in India (2020) (86)
- Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India (2015) (84)
- Scaling up sanitation: Evidence from an RCT in Indonesia (2019) (81)
- Prostitutes and Brides (2008) (65)
- Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia (2012) (64)
- Sex Work and Infection: What’s Law Enforcement Got to Do with It? (2011) (48)
- Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Ability Gaps? (2013) (46)
- To work or not to work? Child development and maternal labor supply (2009) (41)
- Financial Incentives and Other Nudges Do Not Increase Covid-19 Vaccinations Among the Vaccine Hesitant (2021) (37)
- Face Value: Information and Signaling in an Illegal Market (2009) (36)
- Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with Legalized Prostitution (2008) (30)
- The Prostitute's Allure: The Return to Beauty in Commercial Sex Work (2012) (27)
- Initial Conditions Matter: Social Capital and Participatory Development (2015) (26)
- Compensated for Life (2013) (25)
- The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution (2016) (25)
- Handedness, health and cognitive development: evidence from children in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (2013) (24)
- Do Sex Workers Respond to Disease? Evidence from the Male Market for Sex. (2013) (21)
- Scaling up rural sanitation : findings from the impact evaluation baseline survey in Indonesia (2010) (20)
- Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment (2021) (18)
- Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY (2010) (17)
- Handedness, Time Use and Early Childhood Development (2007) (14)
- Mistargeting of Cash Transfers, Social Capital Destruction, and Crime in Indonesia∗ (2011) (12)
- Crimes Against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work (2020) (12)
- Computing for Social Inclusion in Brazil : A Study of the CDI and other initiatives ∗ (2004) (11)
- Compounding inequalities: Adolescent psychosocial wellbeing and resilience among refugee and host communities in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022) (11)
- Aggregate Effects from Public Works: Evidence from India (2020) (10)
- The Right to Education Act: Trends in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality (2019) (10)
- Early Child Development and Maternal Labor Force Participation: Using Handedness as an Instrument (2008) (10)
- Could Droughts Improve Human Capital? Evidence from India∗ (2012) (8)
- The Effects of In-Utero Shocks on Cognitive Test Scores : Evidence from Droughts in India (2012) (6)
- Workfare and Human Capital Investment (2019) (6)
- Intra-Household Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Cognitive Ability Gaps? (2010) (5)
- Drought-Proofing through Groundwater Recharge: Lessons from Chief Ministers’ Initiatives in Four Indian States (2019) (5)
- Cultural Hybridity: A Postcolonial Concept (2016) (5)
- Can financial incentives and other nudges increase COVID-19 vaccinations among the vaccine hesitant? A randomized trial (2022) (5)
- Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor (2020) (4)
- Measuring Family Planning Provider Bias: A Discrete Choice Experiment among Burkinabé, Pakistani, and Tanzanian Providers. (2021) (3)
- Pro-poor farm power policy for West Bengal: analytical background for a policy pilot (2017) (3)
- The Prostitute's Allure: Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination (2010) (3)
- Will Kudimaramathu make communities “think tanks” again? (2018) (2)
- Two Sides of Gender: Sex, Power, and Adolescence (2022) (2)
- Decriminalizing Prostitution: Surprising Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health (2013) (2)
- Child Undernutrition following the Introduction of a Large-Scale Toilet Construction Campaign in India. (2021) (2)
- The dirty business of eliminating open defecation: The effect of village sanitation on child height from field experiments in four countries (2022) (1)
- Can demand for toilets be encouraged ? evidence from Indonesia (2014) (1)
- Sex Work and Risky Sex in Developing Countries (2014) (1)
- Socio-Economic Indicators of Diversified Tribal Communities of Uttarakhand (2018) (1)
- The Economics of Sex Markets: Regulation, Online Technology and Sex Trafficking (2020) (1)
- HIV Prevention at Scale: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Child Mortality in Zambia∗ (2012) (1)
- SOCIAL INDICATORS OF SCHEDULED CASTE: A SOCIALLY EXCLUDED GROUP OF UTTARAKHAND. (2016) (0)
- PRO-POOR AGRICULTURAL POWER POLICY FOR WEST BENGAL (2019) (0)
- Persons with Disabilities, A Lagging Group of Society in Uttarakhand: From Commitments to Outcomes (2017) (0)
- Nature's experiment? Handedness, child time use and early childhood development. (2007) (0)
- Moni Nag.Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life. New Delhi: Allied, 2006. Pp. vii+346. $35.00 (cloth). (2008) (0)
- Addressing Provider Bias in Contraceptive Service Delivery for Youth and Adolescents: An Evaluation of the Beyond Bias Project (2022) (0)
- Nature's experiment? Handedness and Earlychildhood development [Abstract] (2009) (0)
- COVID-19 Vaccination Take-Up in a County-Run Medicaid Managed Care Population (0)
- Sex, Power, and Adolescence (2022) (0)
- Brain vs. Brawn: Child Labor, Human Capital Investment, and the Role of Dynamic Complementarities (2019) (0)
- Do workfare programmes reduce educational attainment? Evidence from India (2015) (0)
- Enforcing Licensing Requirements : Implications for Disease Transmission in the Sex Market ∗ (2005) (0)
- GOAL-SETTING AND INCLUDING MALES: IMPROVING SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH FOR FEMALE ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG WOMEN (2021) (0)
- Will Kudimaramathu make communities think tanks again?: a study of tanks in transit, coping mechanism of communities and government action (2019) (0)
- Transmission of COVID-19 on an Inpatient Hospital Prison Unit (2021) (0)
- Economics of Sex Work and Policy Considerations (2021) (0)
- The Impact of a Large-Scale Community-Led Total Sanitation Program in Indonesia (2021) (0)
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