
Mahesh Karra
@mvkarra
Associate Professor of Global Development Policy @BUPardeeSchool. Global health researcher, development economist. Co-Editor #SFPJournal @pop_council
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https://sites.bu.edu/mvkarra/ 11-05-2021 17:27:15
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TODAY at 12:15 PM EDT, join us + Orazio Attanasio for a discussion on the relationship between influence of maternal subjective beliefs on skill formation + parental investments in child development. Register to attend the hybrid research seminar: gdpcenter.org/3wgsTBn



Thank you Population Council!





Family - Part 2 : S Anukriti on designing surveys that aren't just focused on a nuclear family, and using your baseline survey in an RCT to gain insights into household contexts. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…




Published in #SFPJournal, Mahesh Karra & David Canning re-estimate unwanted family planning (UFP) in India by including women who experience unwanted sterilization in their evaluation—a demographic typically excluded in this estimate. Explore their study🔗: bit.ly/4dlBWkH


Happy to chat about how #SFPJournal is broadening its reach to be a home for #SRHR scholarship from all settings. We have expanded our focal areas of interest to more effectively reflect the field’s priorities and needs. Looking forward to receiving your submissions! Population Council

Using data from an RCT in urban Malawi, in “Family Planning and Children’s Human Capital,” Daniel Maggio Mahesh Karra & david canning find that "improved access to FP positively affects children’s height." Rutgers University Boston University Boston University Global Development Policy Center Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ow.ly/i6yL50TwjHh


Well done, Daniel Maggio! Really happy to see this important piece of research being published, and congratulations on all of the effort that you have put in over the last 5 years (!) to make this work possible.

Glad to see this important study linking #PFAS contamination in drinking water and #COVID19 mortality published in JESEE. Fantastic analysis by Jahred Liddie and the team Harvard SEAS Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Paper: shorturl.at/3oViB Jahred's other work: shorturl.at/GTOje

We are pleased to welcome Mahesh Karra Mahesh Karra, Associate Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University as a GAP Affiliate! Check out their GAP profile here: cssh.northeastern.edu/gap/affiliated……


📖 Publish your public health, social science, and biomedical research on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice with Studies in Family Planning! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/172844… Population Council Mahesh Karra

sasha petrov How do workers sort between formal and informal sector jobs within the same industry? Tanya Rajan’s JMP collects data from Bangladeshi garment workers and quantifies the role of (1) search frictions and (2) preferences for nonwage amenities. Read more at: tanyarajan.com
