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Policy and Technical Reports

• Two cost-effective approaches to reducing intimate partner violence among adolescents

  VoxDev June 2026

• Do public works programmes work?

  VoxDev February 2026

• Promoting Healthy Parenting Practices to Reduce Violence Against Children: Evidence From Jamaica

  IPA December 2025

• How extreme heat determines diets in rural India

  VoxDev September 2025

• Contraception without prejudice: Reducing bias in family planning

  VoxDev August 2025

• Understanding the Impact of Offering Loans on Labor Trafficking in India

  IPA June 2025

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  World Bank Development Impact June 2022

• Women’s Wellbeing During a Pandemic and its Containment

  VoxEU October 2021

• How policies meant to protect sex workers continue to fail them

  Medium June 2021

• Crimes against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work

  Cato Institute April 2021

• Study from Tanzania offers lessons on how to improve the health of adolescent girls worldwide

  The Conversation April 2021

• Examining the Macro Effects of MNREGA

  Ideas for India October 2020

• Covid-19: ‘Shadow pandemic’ and violence against women

  Ideas for India September 2020

• The Impact of Criminalising Sex Work in Indonesia

  VoxDev September 2020

• India’s Right to Education Act: Trends in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality

  VoxEU July 2019

• Good Monsoon, Bad Test Scores? Substituting away from Schooling

  Ideas for India June 2017

• Behavioral Economics and Reproductive Health Decision-Making

  Behavioral Economics April 2016

• The Effect of Workfare Programmes on Educational Attainment: Evidence from India

  VoxDev May 2015

• Impact Evaluation of a Large-scale Rural Sanitation Project in Indonesia

  The World Bank February 2013

• Scaling up rural sanitation : findings from the impact evaluation baseline survey in Indonesia

  The World Bank November 2010
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