Working Papers
Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters (with L. Cameron), 2011.
Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia
(with L. Cameron), 2011.
Face Value: Information and Signaling in an Illegal Market (with T. Logan), 2009. NBER Working Paper 14841.
Compensated for Life: Sex Work and Disease Risk (with R. Arunachalam), 2011.
The Prostitute’s Allure: Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination (with R. Arunachalam), 2010.
Intra-household Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Cognitive Ability Gaps? (with P. Frijters, D. Johnston, and M. Shields), 2010.
Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY (with D. Johnston, M. Nicholls, and M. Shields), 2010.
Published and Forthcoming Papers
Sex Work and Infection: What's Law Enforcement Got to Do with it? (with P. Gertler), forthcoming Journal of Law and Economics.
To Work or Not to Work? Child Development and Maternal Labor Supply
(with P. Frijters, D. Johnston, and M. Shields), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2009, 1(3): 97–110. For AEA subscribers: 
Nature's Experiment? Handedness and Early Childhood Development
(with D. Johnston, M. Nicholls, and M. Shields), Demography, May 2009, 46(2): 281-302.
Prostitutes and Brides? (with R. Arunachalam), American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 2008, 98(2), 516-522. For AEA subscribers:
Risky Business: The Market for Unprotected Commercial Sex (with P. Gertler and S. Bertozzi), Journal of Political Economy, June 2005, 113(3), 518-550.
Reprinted in J.H. Cawley and D.S. Kenkel (eds.), The Economics of Health Behaviours, Elgar Publishers, 2008.
Book Reviews
Review of Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life, by Moni Nag, Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 2008, 57:200.
Review of Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution, by Mary Lucille Sullivan, Feminist Economics, 2008, 14(4): 216-218.
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