Bansi Malde

In this note, the authors provide evidence indicating that extended families are important in this context, before demonstrating that it is vital to understand their effects on household well-being, and that there is a role for government intervention. The authors further summarise work undertaken by EDePo that shows the need to incorporate the extended family in order to design effective policies and interventions.

This paper reviews the literature studying econometric methods for the analysis of social networks. It begins by discussing identification of models of social effects using observational and experimental data, before outlining models of network formation. Finally, it discusses how one might collect data on networks, and the measurement error issues caused by sampling of networks, as well as measurement error more broadly.

Early childhood is a period of rapid growth and development, which lays the foundations for later life, but it is also a period in which children are at their most vulnerable. Poverty, poor nutrition and under-stimulating and unhygienic surroundings, which affect millions of children in developing countries, hamper and stifle child health and development.

Nutrition, information, and household behaviour: experimental evidence from Malawi

This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which, over a six-month period, provided mothers of young infants with information on child nutrition without supplying any monetary or in-kind resources.

This paper estimates the causal effects of family size on girls’ education in Mexico, exploiting prenatal son preference as a source of random variation in the propensity to have more children within an instrumental variables framework.

This Stata code implements the wild cluster bootstrap-t to compute t-stats of parameters of a linear regression model.

Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices, and thereby to the production of suboptimal levels of health. This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which, over a six-month period, provided mothers of young infants with information on child nutrition without supplying any monetary or in-kind resources.

This paper tests whether family size has a causal effect on girls' education in Mexico.