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I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Merced. My research focuses on gender, financial access, education, and health in low income countries.
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5200 North Lake Road
Merced CA 95343
ksheth@ucmerced.edu
Merced CA 95343
ksheth@ucmerced.edu
Publications and Accepted Papers:
The Usual Suspects: Do Risk Tolerance, Altruism, and Health Predict the Response to COVID-19?, with Greg Wright. [Accepted at Review of Economics of the Household]
Can Mobile-Linked Bank Accounts Bolster Savings? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Sri Lanka, with Suresh de Mel, Craig McIntosh, and Christopher Woodruff. NBER Working Paper 25354. [Accepted at The Review of Economics and Statistics]
Follow my Lead: Assertive Cheap Talk and the Gender Gap, with Shanthi Manian [Accepted at Management Science]
Is Provider Access to Technology a Constraint on Quality of Health Care? Experimental Evidence from Infant Jaundice in Rwanda, with Lisine Tuyisenge and Vinod Bhutani. [Accepted at Seminars of Perinatology]
What Explains Low Adoption of Digital Payment Technologies? Evidence from Small-Scale Merchants in Jaipur, India. 2019. PLoS ONE, 14(7). (with Ethan Ligon, Badal Malick, and Carly Trachtman)
Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Female Teachers. 2016. Journal of Human Resources, 51(2), 28. (Lead Article) (with Karthik Muralidharan)
Gender Discrimination in the Family. 2014. In E. Redmount (Ed.), The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth. (pp. 237-266). (with Prashant Bharadwaj and Gordan B. Dahl)
Working Papers:
Delivering Health Insurance Through Informal Financial Groups: Evidence on adverse selection, demand, and health care utilization [Revise and Resubmit]
Discrimination from Below: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia, with Shibiru Ayalew and Shanthi Manian. Center for Effective Global Action Working Paper 079. [Revise and Resubmit]
Left Behind: The Impacts of Internal Migration on Remaining Household Members, with Yeshwas Bogale and Dagim Belay
Selected Works in Progress:
Explaining Entrepreneurial Success: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (with Shibiru Ayalew and Shanthi Manian)
Status: In the field
Gender and Nutrition Sensitive Agricultural Extension (with Niklas Beuhren, Adiam Hagos Hailemichael, and Estelle Koussoube)
Status: Pre-field preparation
Getting Girls Back in School: The Returns to Alternative Education in Tanzania (with James Khakshi and SK Tariquzzaman)
Status: In the field
Selecting Effective Teachers: A Field Experiment in Madagascar (with Peter Holland and Aprajit Mahajan)
Status: In the field
The Return to Trained Teachers: A Field Experiment on the Scaling of Teacher Training in Madagascar (with Peter Holland and Thiago Scot)
Status: Pre-field preparation
The Usual Suspects: Do Risk Tolerance, Altruism, and Health Predict the Response to COVID-19?, with Greg Wright. [Accepted at Review of Economics of the Household]
Can Mobile-Linked Bank Accounts Bolster Savings? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Sri Lanka, with Suresh de Mel, Craig McIntosh, and Christopher Woodruff. NBER Working Paper 25354. [Accepted at The Review of Economics and Statistics]
Follow my Lead: Assertive Cheap Talk and the Gender Gap, with Shanthi Manian [Accepted at Management Science]
Is Provider Access to Technology a Constraint on Quality of Health Care? Experimental Evidence from Infant Jaundice in Rwanda, with Lisine Tuyisenge and Vinod Bhutani. [Accepted at Seminars of Perinatology]
What Explains Low Adoption of Digital Payment Technologies? Evidence from Small-Scale Merchants in Jaipur, India. 2019. PLoS ONE, 14(7). (with Ethan Ligon, Badal Malick, and Carly Trachtman)
Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Female Teachers. 2016. Journal of Human Resources, 51(2), 28. (Lead Article) (with Karthik Muralidharan)
Gender Discrimination in the Family. 2014. In E. Redmount (Ed.), The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth. (pp. 237-266). (with Prashant Bharadwaj and Gordan B. Dahl)
Working Papers:
Delivering Health Insurance Through Informal Financial Groups: Evidence on adverse selection, demand, and health care utilization [Revise and Resubmit]
Discrimination from Below: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia, with Shibiru Ayalew and Shanthi Manian. Center for Effective Global Action Working Paper 079. [Revise and Resubmit]
Left Behind: The Impacts of Internal Migration on Remaining Household Members, with Yeshwas Bogale and Dagim Belay
Selected Works in Progress:
Explaining Entrepreneurial Success: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (with Shibiru Ayalew and Shanthi Manian)
Status: In the field
Gender and Nutrition Sensitive Agricultural Extension (with Niklas Beuhren, Adiam Hagos Hailemichael, and Estelle Koussoube)
Status: Pre-field preparation
Getting Girls Back in School: The Returns to Alternative Education in Tanzania (with James Khakshi and SK Tariquzzaman)
Status: In the field
Selecting Effective Teachers: A Field Experiment in Madagascar (with Peter Holland and Aprajit Mahajan)
Status: In the field
The Return to Trained Teachers: A Field Experiment on the Scaling of Teacher Training in Madagascar (with Peter Holland and Thiago Scot)
Status: Pre-field preparation
