Updated May 2022
Norman Grantham Miller
Department of Health Policy
Phone: +1-650-723-2714
School of Medicine
Fax: +1-650-723-1919
Stanford University
Email: ngmiller@stanford.edu
615 Crothers Way
Website: https://people.stanford.edu/ngmiller/
Stanford, CA 94305-6006
Current Positions
Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 2021 – Present
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Professor of Economics (by courtesy), 2021 – Present
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, 2012 – Present
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, 2014 – Present
Past Positions
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, 2020 – 2021
Associate Professor of Medicine (with tenure), Stanford University, 2012 – 2020
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Associate Professor of Economics (by courtesy), 2012 – 2020
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Associate Professor of Health Research and Policy (by courtesy), 2012 – 2020
Founding Director, Stanford King Center on Global Development, 2019
Founding Director, Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development, 2017 – 2019
Director, Stanford Center for International Development, 2014 – 2017
Visitor, Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), 2008 – 2010
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, 2005 – 2012
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Assistant Professor of Economics (by courtesy), 2006 – 2012
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Assistant Professor of Health Research and Policy (by courtesy), 2006 – 2012
Education
Ph.D., Health Policy (Economics Track), Harvard University, 2005
Committee: David Cutler (Chair), David Bloom, Ken Chay, and Richard Frank
Master of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2000
B.A., Psychology (Intensive Major with Distinction), Yale University, 1995
Outside Professional Activity
Consultant, A.T. Kearney Saudi Arabia Ltd., 2019
Honors and Affiliations
2020
2020-2022
2018-2020
2015-
2015-2016
2015-2018
2015-
2014-
2013-2019
2013
2012-
Best Paper Prize, Essen Health Conference (with Aureo de Paula and Christine Valente)
Dong Wei Faculty Fellow, Stanford King Center on Global Development
Scientific Advisory Committee, Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and
Evaluation Study (M-CARES)
Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development
Global Advisory Board, Kolkata Public Health Institute
Faculty Committee, Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
Research Affiliate, International Growth Centre (IGC)
Affiliate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre for Micro-Social Change (MISOC), Institute
for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
2012-2014
2011
Member, Urban Services Initiative, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Divisional Teaching Award, Department of Medicine, Stanford University
Updated May 2022
2011-
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
2010
Inter-American Prize for Research on Social Security, Conferencia Interamericana de
Seguridad Social (CISS) (with Diana Pinto and Marcos Vera-Hernández)
2010-2012
International Research Fellow, Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO),
University of Bristol
2009
Divisional Teaching Award, Department of Medicine, Stanford University
2009-
Faculty Affiliate, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
2007-
Faculty Affiliate, Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (IPER),
Stanford University
2006
Biennial Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Population Scholarship,
American Sociological Association Section on Population (with David Cutler)
2006
Best Student Paper Prize, American Society of Health Economists (ASHE)
2005-2012
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
2005-
Faculty Fellow, Stanford Center for International Development
2005-
Faculty Affiliate, Stanford Center for Latin American Studies
2002-2005
Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Aging and Health Economics, National Bureau of Economic
Research (NBER)
2002-2004
Graduate Student Fellow, Harvard Center for International Development
2000-2002
Doctoral Trainee, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Refereed Journal Articles
“Re-Examining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality:
Comment,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14(2): 158-165, 2022 (with David
Cutler).
“Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Lower-Income Countries: Evidence from
Mexico’s Programa Agua Limpia,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 13(4): 490-520,
2021 (with Sonia Bhalotra
,
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Alfonso Miranda, and Atheendar Venkataramani).
“Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and
Output Incentive Contracts for Maternal Health Care in India,” American Economic Journal: Applied
Economics 13(4): 34-69, 2021 (with Katherine Donato, Manoj Mohanan, Yulya Truskinovsky, and
Marcos Vera-Hernández).
“Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Post-War Italy,”
Demography 58(4): 1473-1498, 2021 (with Marcella Alsan, Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya,
Valentina Conti, and Iván Mejía
-
Guevara).
“Agreement between Dried Blook Spots and HemoCue in Tamil Nadu, India,” Scientific Reports 11:
9285, 2021 (with Rohini Bingewar, Sangeeta Kulkarni, Aprajit Mahajan, Reynaldo Martorell,
Rukshan Meta, Reshma Roshania, Ashwini Shete, and Alessandro Tarozzi).
“Can Bureaucrats Really be Paid Like CEOs? School Administrator Incentives for Anemia Reduction
in Rural China,” Journal of the European Economic Association 18(1): 165-201, 2020 (with Renfu
Luo, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia, and Marcos Vera-Hernández).
“United States Aid Policy and Induced Abortion in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of the Mexico
City Policy,” Lancet Global Health 7(8): PE1046-E1053, 2019 (with Eran Bendavid and Nina
Brooks).
“Population Sex Imbalance in China before the One Child Policy,” Demographic Research 40: 319-
358, 2019 (with Kim Singer Babiarz, Paul Ma, and Shige Song).
Updated May 2022
“Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity
Care Providers in India,” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 107(5): 506-510, 2017
(with Katherine Donato, Manoj Mohanan, Yulya Truskinovsky, and Marcos Vera-Hernández).
“Effect of a Social Franchising and Telemedicine Programme on Health Care Providers’ Knowledge
of, and Quality of Care for, Childhood Diarrhoea and Pneumonia in Bihar, India,” Bulletin of the
World Health Organization 95: 343-352, 2017 (with Veena Das, Soledad Giardili, Jeremy Goldhaber-
Fiebert, Manoj Mohanan, Tracy Rabin, Sunil Raj, Jeremy Schwartz, Aparna Seth, and Marcos Vera-
Hernández).
“Effect of a Large-Scale Social Franchising and Telemedicine Program on Childhood Diarrhea and
Pneumonia Outcomes in India,” Health Affairs 35(1): 1800-1809, 2016 (with Manoj Mohanan, Kim
Singer Babiarz, Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, and Marcos Vera-Hernández).
“Ambulance Service Associated with Reduced Probabilities of Neonatal and Infant Mortality in Two
Indian States,” Health Affairs 35(1):1774-1782, 2016 (with Kim Singer Babiarz, Nomita Divi, and
S.V. Mahadevan).
“Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception are Substitutes,” Demography 53(4): 979-
1009, 2016 (with Christine Valente).
“Family Planning Program Effects: Evidence from Microdata,” Population and Development Review
42(1): 7-26, 2016 (with Kim Singer Babiarz).
“Intended and Unintended Consequences of China’s ‘Zero Mark-Up’ Drug Policy,” Health Affairs
34(8): 1391-1398, 2015 (with Shaoping Li, Scott Rozelle, Hongmei Yi, and Linxiu Zhang).
“Family Planning: Program Effects,” in Irma Elo and Andrew Foster (volume eds.), International
Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition, Elsevier, 2015 (with Kim Singer
Babiarz).
“An Exploration of China’s Mortality Decline under Mao: A Provincial Analysis, 1950-1980,”
Population Studies 69(1): 39-56, 2015 (with Karen Eggleston, Kim Singer Babiarz, and Qiong Zhang).
“Learning about New Technologies through Social Networks: Experimental Evidence on Non-
Traditional Stoves in Bangladesh,” Marketing Science, 31(4): 2014 (with Mushfiq Mobarak).
“Impact of the Chiranjeevi Yojana Program on Institutional Deliveries and Birth Outcomes in Gujarat,
India,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 92: 187-194, 2014 (with Sebastian Bauhoff, Manoj
Mohanan, Gerard La Forgia, Kim Singer Babiarz, and Kultar Singh).
“Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Low- and Middle-Income Country Health Programs,” in Tony
Cuyler (ed.), Encyclopedia of Health Economics, Elsevier, 2014 (with Kim Singer Babiarz).
“Risk Protection, Service Use, and Health Outcomes under Colombia’s Health Insurance Program for
the Poor,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5(4): 61-91, 2013 (with Diana Pinto and
Marcos Vera-Hernández).
“To Promote Adoption of Household Health Technologies, Think Beyond Health” [Commentary],
American Journal of Public Health 103(1): 1736-1740, 2013 (with Mark Thurber, Christina Warner,
Lauren Platt, Alexander Slaski, and Rajesh Gupta).
Updated May 2022
“The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia’s Mortality Crisis,” American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics 5(2): 232-260, 2013 (with Jay Bhattacharya and Christina Gathmann).
“PEPFAR and Adult Mortality – Reply” [Letter], Journal of the American Medical Association
308(10): 972-973, 2012 (with Eran Bendavid and Charles Holmes).
“Effectiveness of Provider Incentives for Anaemia Reduction in Rural China: A Cluster Randomised
Trial,” BMJ 345: e4809, 2012 (with Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang, Sean Sylvia, Yaojiang Shi, Patricia
Foo, Qiran Zhao, Reynaldo Martorell, Alexis Medina, and Scott Rozelle).
“Low Demand for Nontraditional Cookstove Technologies,” Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences USA 109(27): 10815-10820, 2012 (with Mushfiq Mobarak, Puneet Dwivedi, Robert Bailis,
and Lynn Hildemann).
“The Limits of Health and Nutrition Education: Evidence from Three Randomized Controlled Trials in
Rural China,” CESifo Economic Studies 58(2): 385-404, 2012 (with Renfu Luo, Yaojiang Shi, Linxiu
Zhang, Huiping Zhang, Alexis Medina, and Scott Rozelle).
“HIV Development Assistance and Adult Mortality in Africa,” Journal of the American Medical
Association 307(19): 2060-2067, 2012 (with Eran Bendavid, Charles Holmes, and Jay Bhattacharya).
“Impact of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme on Township Health Centers,” Health Affairs
31(5): 1065-1074, 2012 (with Kim Singer Babiarz, Hongmei Yi, Linxiu Zhang, and Scott Rozelle).
“United States Aid Policy and Induced Abortion in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Bulletin of the World Health
Organization 89: 873-880, 2011 (with Eran Bendavid and Patrick Avila).
“Anaemia among Students of Rural China’s Elementary Schools: Prevalence and Correlates in
Ningxia and Qinghai’s Poor Counties,” Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 29(5): 471-485,
2011 (with Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang, Chengfang Liu, Qiran Zhao, Yaojiang Shi, Elaine Yu, Brian
Sharbono, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle, and Reynaldo Martorell).
“Cyclicality, Mortality, and the Value of Time: The Case of Coffee Price Fluctuations and Child
Survival in Colombia,” Journal of Political Economy 118(1): 113-155, 2010 (with Piedad Urdinola).
“The Relation of Price of Antiretroviral Drugs and Foreign Assistance with Coverage of HIV
Treatment in Africa: Retrospective Study,” BMJ 341: c6218, 2010 (with Eran Bendavid, Jay
Bhattacharya, Eric Leroux, and Nicole Smith).
“New Evidence on the Impact of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme and Its Implications for
Rural Primary Care,” BMJ 341: c5617, 2010 (with Kim Singer Babiarz, Hongmei Yi, Linxiu Zhang,
and Scott Rozelle)
.
“Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia,” Economic
Journal 120(545): 709-736, 2010.
“The U.S. Global Health Initiative: Informing Policy with Evidence” [Commentary], Journal of the
American Medical Association 304(7): 791-792, 2010 (with Eran Bendavid).
“AIDS and Declining Support for Africa’s Dependent Elderly: A Retrospective Analysis Using
Demographic and Health Surveys,” BMJ 340: c2841, 2010 (with Tim Kautz, Eran Bendavid, and Jay
Bhattacharya).
Updated May 2022
“Women’s Suffrage, Political Responsiveness, and Child Survival in American History,” Quarterly
Journal of Economics 123(3): 1287-1327, 2008.
“Evidence on Early-Life Income and Late-Life Health from America’s Dust Bowl Era,” Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104(33):
13244-13249, 2007
(with David Cutler and Doug
Norton).
“Water, Water Everywhere: Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities,” in Edward
Glaeser and Claudia Goldin (eds.), Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic
History, University of Chicago Press, 2006 (with David Cutler).
“The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The 20
th
Century United States”
Demography 42(1): 1-22, 2005 (with David Cutler).
“The Impact of Medicaid Managed Care on Community Clinics in Sacramento County, California,”
American Journal of Public Health 89(6): 913-17, 1999 (with Carol Korenbrot and John Greene).
Working Papers
“Illness and Wage Loss: Evidence from India (and Implications for the Universal Health Coverage
Agenda),” medRxiv 2021.11.04.21265892 (with Aditya Shrinivas, Suhani Jalota, and Aprajit
Mahajan).
“Cost-Sharing in Medical Care Can Increase Adult Mortality Risk in Lower-Income Countries,”
Reject and Resubmit, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (with Giancarlo
Buitrago and Marcos Vera-Hernández).
“The Changing Relationship between Bodyweight and Longevity in High- and Low-Income
Countries,” NBER Working Paper 28813, 2021 (with Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya, and Joanna
Kopinska).
“Subjective Expectations and Demand for Contraception,” NBER Working Paper 27271, 2020 (with
Aureo de Paula and Christine Valente).
“The Limits (and Human Costs) of Population Policy: Fertility Decline and Sex Selection in China
under Mao,” Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics (with Kim Singer Babiarz,
Paul Ma, and Shige Song).
“Risk Perceptions and Protective Behaviors: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Revise and
Resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics (with Kate Bundorf, Jill DeMatteis, Maria Polyakova,
Jialu Streeter, and Jonathan Wivagg).
“Family Planning and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Incentive Effects and Direct Effects among
Malaysian Women,” Center for Global Development Working Paper 471, 2017 (with Kim Singer
Babiarz, Jiwon Lee, Tey Nai Peng, and Christine Valente).
“Family Planning and Fertility Behavior: Evidence from Twentieth Century Malaysia,” Center for
Global Development Working Paper 470, 2017 (with Kim Singer Babiarz, Jiwon Lee, Tey Nai Peng,
and Christine Valente).
“Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved
Cookstoves,” Revise and Resubmit, Economic Journal (with Mushfiq Mobarak).
Updated May 2022
Research in Progress
“Anti-Poverty Programs Reduce Child Labor – But Not Adult Labor Trafficking” (with Luis Assis,
Kim Babiarz, Jessie Brunner Rafa Ch, Pablo Querubin, and Victoria Ward)
“More to Live for: Health Investment Responses to Expected Retirement Wealth in Chile” (with
Nieves Valdes and Marcos Vera-Hernández)
“An Evaluation of Rice Fortification through India’s Public Distribution System” (with Aprajit
Mahajan, Reynaldo Martorell, Purnima Menon, Samuel Scott, and Alessandro Tarozzi)
“The Flexner Report, Physician Markets, and Mortality in American History” (with Karen Clay, Rita
Portnykh, and Ethan Schmick)
“Free Trade, Food Prices, and Obesity in Mexico” (with Jay Bhattacharya, Enrique Seira, and Tara
Templin)
“Experimental Evidence on Wage Insurance and Health Care Use in Gujarat, India” (with Aprajit
Mahajan, Anup Malani, Morgen Miller, Pietro Tebaldi, and Alexander Torgovitsky)
“The Dose-Response Relationship between Air Pollution and Mortality in China” (with Kim Singer
Babiarz, Bissan Ghaddar, Lynn Hildemann, Hongbin Li, Bo Lin, and Lingsheng Meng)
Academic Presentations
Abt Associates (2005), American Economic Association Annual Meeting (2006, 2013), American
Society of Health Economists Annual Meeting (2021), Bay Area Colloquium on Population (2011),
Boston University Population Health Science Conference (Keynote Address) (2018),
BU/Harvard/MIT Health Economics Seminar (2005), BU/Princeton Conference on the Distal
Determinants of Public Health (2010), Brown Population Studies Center (2012), Center for Chinese
Agricultural Policy (2012), Center for Global Development (2017), Central Bank of Colombia (2009),
CESifo Conference on the Causes of Malnutrition in South Asia (2011), Cliometric Society Annual
Conference (2007), Colombian Health Economics Association Congress (2008), Columbia
Department of Economics (2016), Cornell Conference on Infectious Diseases and the Social Sciences
(2007), Cornell Department of Policy Analysis and Management (2018), Duke Department of
Economics (2016), Duke Development Workshop (2007), Duke Global Health Institute (2011), Duke
Population Research Institute (2011,
2021
), Erasmus University Rotterdam, School of Economics
(2016), Fedesarrollo (2005), Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (2003, 2004),
Harvard Medical School (2003, 2004, 2005), Harvard School of Public Health (2006), International
Food Policy Research Institute (2017), International Health Economics Association (2009, 2021),
International Society for New Institutional Economics (2006), Johns Hopkins Critical Studies of
Global Health Seminar (2013), Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (2005), Linfield College Edith
Green Endowed Lecture (2012), NBER Conference on the Rise in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality
(2021), NBER Cohort Studies Meeting (2007, 2009), NBER Summer Institute Children’s Program
Meeting (2006), NBER Summer Institute Health Economics Program Meeting (2009, 2011), National
University of Colombia (2009), NEUDC (2007, 2008, 2009), New York University Department of
Economics (2016), Ningxia University Department of Economics and Management (2009),
Northwestern University Department of Economics (2008), Oregon Historical Society (2012), Pacific
Conference for Development Economics (2021), Pan American Health Organization (2003), Penn
State Center on Population Health and Aging (2007), Population Association of America Annual
Conference (2004, 2006, 2012, 2015, 2021), Population Association of America Applied Demography
Workshop (2021), Princeton Department of Economics (2010), RAND (2005, 2012), Stanford Center
for International Development (2006, 2008), Stanford Conference on Global Governance and Global
Health (2010), Stanford Conference on Public Goods Provision and the Efficacy of Governance
(2012), Stanford Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2006), Stanford Department of
Updated May 2022
Economics (2008), Stanford Lemann Center (2020), Stanford Medical School (2005, 2006, 2007,
2008, 2009, 2012, 2015), Stanford Medical School Grand Rounds, Division of Pulmonary and Critical
Care Medicine (2015), Tehran University of Medical Sciences (2016), Triangle Health Economics
Workshop (2021), Triangle Resource and Environmental Economics Seminar (2015), Tulane
Department of Economics (2013), U.S. Department of Labor (2020), U.S. Department of State Human
Trafficking Prevalence Reduction Innovation Forum (2020), U.S. Embassy (Brazil) (2020),
Universidad de los Andes Department of Economics (2008, 2010), Universidad de los Andes School
of Medicine (2010), University of Bristol Department of Economics (2008), University of Bristol
Centre for Market and Public Organisation (2012, 2013), UC Berkeley Department of Demography
(2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2014), UC Berkeley Department of Economics (2007, 2012), UC Berkeley
Water Center (2006), UC Irvine Department of Economics (2010), UCLA California Center for
Population Research (2007, 2011), UC San Diego Department of Economics (2019), UC San
Francisco Medical School (2006), University of Cambridge Department of Economics (2008),
University of Chicago Center for Population Economics (2008), University of Chicago Harris School
of Public Policy (2005), University College London Department of Economics (2005), University
College London/London School of Economics Development Economics Seminar (2008), University of
Colorado Boulder Department of Economics (2005, 2015), University of Houston Department of
Economics (2019), University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Economics (2007), University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Economics (2021),
University of Michigan Population
Studies Center (2006, 2014), University of Michigan RWJ Scholars Seminar (2006), University of
Minnesota International Economic Development Conference (2006), University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill School of Public Health (2005), University of Southern California Department of
Economics (2014, 2021), University of Southern California Department of Gerontology (2015),
University of Southern Denmark (2016), University of Texas Austin Population Research Center
(2017), University of Wisconsin Center for Demography and Ecology (2007, 2014), UNU-WIDER
(2006), Vanderbilt GPED 50
th
Anniversary Conference (2006), World Bank Development Economics
Research Group (2008), Yale Department of Economics (2010), Yale School of Public Health (2011)
Professional Service
Grant Reviewer: National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Science Foundation (NSF); Abdul Latif
Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL); Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
Referee Service:
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics; American Economic Review;
American Economic Review: Insights; American Heart Journal; American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene; B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy; BMJ; Demography; Economic
Development and Cultural Change; Economic Journal; Economics Bulletin; Forum for Health
Economics and Policy; Health Economics; Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of
Economic History; Journal of the European Economic Association; Journal of Health Economics;
Journal of Human Resources; Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Law, Economics, and
Organization; Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of
Public Economics; Lancet; Medical Care; PLOS Medicine; Population Studies; Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences USA; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Review of Economic Studies;
Review of Economics and Statistics; Review of Economics of the Household; Science; Social Science
& Medicine; World Politics
Teaching
Economics 127/Medicine 262: “The Economics of Health Improvement in Lower-Income Countries”
(2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2021)
Health Research and Policy 201C/Medicine 215C: “Graduate Tutorial in Health Policy III”
(2021)
Updated May 2022
Human Biology 129W: “Health Care Systems around the World”
(2014, 2016, 2017)
International Policy Studies 216: “Making Things Happen in the Real World: Leadership and
Implementation”
(2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Funding
United States Department of State, 10/2021-12/2026
“Project to Combat Labor Trafficking in Illicit Deforestation and Charcoal Production”
Principal Investigator
$1,299,900
United States Department of State, 10/2021-12/2025
“Labor Trafficking in Brazil”
Principal Investigator, Stanford Subcontract
$2,728,758
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 8/2021-3/2025
“Subjective Expectations and Demand for Contraception”
Principal Investigator, Stanford Subcontract
$1,915,299
Stanford King Center on Global Development, 1/2021-8/2024
“The Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab”
Principal Investigator
$911,390
Stanford Impact Labs, 1/2021-12/2022
“Transforming Brick Manufacturing in Bangladesh to Promote Clean Air and Better Health”
Investigator (PI: Steve Luby)
$500,000
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, 1/2021-12/2021
“The Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab”
Co-Principal Investigator
$74,649
United States Department of State/University of Georgia, 5/2020-10/2021
“Estimating the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in Brazilian Agriculture”
Principal Investigator
$475,000
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, 10/2019-9/2021
“Air Quality and Mortality in China”
Principal Investigator
$187,502
King Philanthropies, 6/2019-9/2021
“Reducing Anemia through Food Fortification at Scale”
Co-Principal Investigator
$616,791
Updated May 2022
Global Innovation Fund, 2/2017-12/2020
“Reducing Anemia through Food Fortification at Scale”
Co-Principal Investigator
$1,303,611
Stanford King Center on Global Development, 9/2019-8/2020
“The Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab”
Co-Principal Investigator
$100,000
Tata Trusts, 1/2017-2/2019
“Fortification of Staples to Achieve Nutritional Security”
Co-Principal Investigator
$766,668
Stanford Institute for Innovation in Development Countries (Seed), 7/2014-06/2019
“Transparency and New Technology to Reduce Childhood Malnutrition in India”
Principal Investigator
$567,000
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 5/2017-10/2018
“Subjective Expectations and Demand for Contraception”
Investigator (PI: Christine Valente)
$100,000
Unorthodox Philanthropy, 8/2017-12/2017
“Optimizing Windows to Improve Ventilation in Dhaka Slums”
Investigator (PI: Steve Luby)
$500,000
Government of Tamil Nadu, India, 11/2015-10/2017
“Alleviating Anemia through Food Fortification at Scale”
Co-Principal Investigator
$745,225
Center for Global Development
,
7/2016-6/2017
“Direct and Indirect Family Planning Program Effects”
Principal Investigator
$165,000
World Bank, 6/2015-12/2017
“Analysis of Provider Payment Reforms on Advancing China’s Health (APPROACH): An Evaluation
of County Hospitals”
Principal Investigator, Stanford Subcontract
$169,409
Global Development and Poverty Initiative, Stanford University, 8/2014-8/2019
“The Stanford-India Health Policy Initiative and Micronutrient Deficiencies in Tamil Nadu, India”
Principal Investigator
$525,000
Updated May 2022
Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University, 8/2013-8/2014
“The Stanford-India Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) Study”
Principal Investigator
$40,000
FSI Global Underdevelopment Action Fund, Stanford University, 1/2012-1/2013
“Does Resource Scarcity Breed Innovation in Service Delivery?”
Principal Investigator
$40,000
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, 9/2011-8/2012
“The Optimal Size of Health Performance Incentives”
Principal Investigator
$150,000
NIH/NHLBI R01, 6/2011-5/2016
“Paying-for-Performance and Comparative Effectiveness of Strategies to Combat Anemia in China”
Principal Investigator
$2,500,000
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 6/2011-5/2015
“The Bihar Evaluation of Social Franchising and Telemedicine”
Principal Investigator, Stanford Subcontract
$3,050,000
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 11/2010-6/2011
“Preparatory Phase: The Bihar Evaluation of Social Franchising and Telemedicine”
Principal Investigator, Stanford Subcontract
$426,990
NIH/Fogarty RC4, 9/2010-8/2013
“Stanford Global Health Consortium: Innovation, Design, Evaluation, and Action (C-IDEA)”
Investigator (PI: Michele Barry)
$5,042,663
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3IE), 5/2010-4/2012
“Improving Maternal and Child Health in India: Evaluating Demand and Supply Side Strategies”
Principal Investigator, Stanford Subcontract
$1,112,331
International Growth Centre, 11/2009-7/2010
“Marketing Stoves through Social Networks to Combat Indoor Air Pollution”
Co-Principal Investigator
£18,810
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, 9/2009-8/2010
“Paying for Performance in China’s Battle against Anemia”
Co-Principal Investigator
$97,200
Updated May 2022
NIH/NIA P30 Seed Grant, 7/2008-6/2009
“Health Improvement under Mao and Its Implications for Aging in China”
Co-Principal Investigator
$30,000
NIH/NICHD K01 Career Development Award, 6/2007-5/2011
“The Causes and Behavioral Foundations of Mortality Decline in Developing Countries”
Principal Investigator
$500,000
NIH/NICHD R03, 6/2007-5/2009
“Women's Empowerment and Child Survival in the Historical United States”
Principal Investigator
$100,000
Inter-American Development Bank, 6/2007-9/2008
“Impact Evaluation of the Colombian Subsidized Health Insurance Regime”
Co-Principal Investigator
$39,200
NIH/NIA P30 Seed Grant, 5/2007-4/2008
“Temperance and the Russian Mortality Crisis”
Co-Principal Investigator
$30,000
Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, 7/2006-4/2009
“The Causes and Consequences of Indoor Air Pollution: An Experimental Investigation in
Bangladesh”
Principal Investigator
$150,000
NIH/NIA P30 Seed Grant, 7/2006-6/2007
“HIV/AIDS and Africa’s Orphaned Elderly”
Co-Principal Investigator
$30,000
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, 4/2006-3/2009
“Evaluating Institutional Responses to Market Liberalization: Why Latin America Was Left Behind”
Investigator (PI: Judy Goldstein)
$150,000
NIH/NIA P30 Seed Grant, 11/2005-6/2006
“Health Insurance and Well-Being among the Elderly in Colombia”
Principal Investigator
$25,000
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, 10/2005-9/2006
“The Causes and Consequences of Indoor Air Pollution: An Experimental Investigation in
Bangladesh”
Principal Investigator
$30,000