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Research

This section comprises the Research endeavored by the project team, such as publications and working papers published in scientific journals and presented at scientific conferences.

Publications

Pregnancy Ambivalence: Expectations, Preferences and Contraceptive Choice

Accepted in the European Economic Review.

Promoting engagement with a mental health smartphone app: evidence from a randomized field experiment

Adeline Delavande with Nathan Kettlewell, Beate Mueller, Rachael Murrihy, and Sonal Singh, Accepted at Frontiers in Behavioral Economics – Health Behavior.

Subjective Expectations and Inequalities in Human Capital Across the Early Life Course

Accepted in the Advances in Economics and Econometrics: 13th World Congress. Econometric Society Monographs. Cambridge University Press.

Expectations in Development Economics

Chapter prepared for the Handbook of Economic Expectations, van der Klaauw, W., G. Topa, and R. Bachmann, Editors, Elsevier, 2022.

Academic and non-Academic Investments at University: the Role of Expectations, Preferences and Constraints

Adeline Delavande with Emilia Del Bono and Angus Holford. Journal of Econometrics 2022, 231(1), 74-97.

Maternal Investments in Children: the Role of Expected Effort and Return

Adeline Delavande with Sonia Bhalotra, Paulino Font Gilabert and Joanna Maselko. Accepted at Economic Journal.

Mortality Risk Information and Health Seeking Behavior During an Epidemic

Adeline Delavande with Helene Purcell, Iliana V. Kohler, Alberto Ciancio, James Mwera, Victor Mwapasa, Hans-Peter Kohler. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences 2024, 121(28).

Mortality Risk Information, Survival Expectations and Sexual Behaviors

Adeline Delavande with Alberto Ciancio, Hans-Peter Kohler and Iliana V. Kohler. Economic Journal 2024.

Critical Periods in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development: Evidence from Weather Shocks in Indonesia

Duncan Webb, The Economic Journal, Volume 134, Issue 660, May 2024, Pages 1637–1665.

Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations

Adeline Delavande with Emanuele Ciani, Ben Etheridge and Marco Francesconi. Economic Journal 2023,133(649), 98-129.

Understanding how socioeconomic inequalities drive inequalities in COVID-19 infections

Adeline Delavande  with Rachid Laajaj, Duncan Webb, Danilo Aristizabal et al. Scientific Reports 12, 8269 (2022).

COVID-19 spread, detection, and dynamics in Bogota, Colombia

Duncan Webb with Laajaj, R., De Los Rios, C., Sarmiento-Barbieri, I. et al. Nature Communications 12, 4726 (2021).

Working Papers

Improving Childhood Immunization through Maternal Support: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Pakistan

Adeline Delavande with Areeba Shahab, Javed Younas & Basit Zafar, NEBR Working Paper 33559, 2025.

Psychological Mechanisms for Measuring Preferences and Beliefs

Duncan Webb with Evan Friedman and Suanna Oh, 2025.

HeforShe: Bargaining Power, Parental Beliefs, and Parental Investments

Adeline Delavande with Alejandrina Cristia, Pauline Grosjean, and Sarah Walker, CEPR Working paper DP 18775, 2024.

Imprecise health beliefs and health behavior

Adeline Delavande with Emilia Del Bono and Angus Holford, 2024.

Menstrual Stigma, Hygiene, and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence from Madagascar

Duncan Webb with Karen Macours and Julieta Vera Rueda, 2024.

Infant Mortality Expectation and Fertility Choice in Rural Malawi

Adeline Delavande with Hans-Peter Kohler and Ali Vergili, 2024.

Less Macho, More Mellow: The Malleability of Competitiveness

Adeline Delavande with Emilia Del Bono, Angus Holford and Patrick Nolen. Featured in the Guardian, 2024.

Uncertainty Attitudes, Subjective Expectations and Decisions under Uncertainty

Adeline Delavande with Jayant Ganguli and Friederike Mengel, 2023.

Silence to Solidarity: How Communication About a Minority Affects Discrimination

Duncan Webb, R&R, Journal of Political Economy, Winner of Weiss NEUDC Distinguished Paper 2023.

Expectations about the Productivity of Effort and Academic Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Information

Adeline Delavande with Emilia Del Bono, Angus Holford, Sonkurt Sen and Vedran Lesic, 2023.

Working in Progress

Automating Robustness: Using Agentic AI to Automate Robustness Checks

Duncan Webb with Magnus Johannesson, Joseph Kopecky, and Lester Lusher.

AI-Assisted Screening and Health Care Demand in India

Duncan Webb with Patrick Agte and Pascaline Dupas.

Stress, Stigma, and Learning in Madagascar

Duncan Webb with Oscar Diaz, Mariachiara Iannuzzi, and Karen Macours.

Parental Coaching to Improve Adolescent Smartphone Habits in Colombia

Duncan Webb with Janet Currie, Oscar Diaz, Juan Saavedra, Ángela Guarín, and Frank Schilbach.

How Persistent Are the Impacts of Global Education and Health Interventions? Evidence from 1513 Meta-Analyses

Duncan Webb with Eva Vivalt.

Projects

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