2025
To use financial incentives or not? Insights from experiments in encouraging sanitation investments in four countries
Gautam S, Gechter M, Guiteras R, Mobarak A. To use financial incentives or not? Insights from experiments in encouraging sanitation investments in four countries. World Development 2025, 187: 106791. PMCID: PMC11659501, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106791.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchFinancial incentivesPoverty statusSanitation investmentsPolicy concernsHygienic latrinesInclusion criteriaIntervention-based studiesInformation campaignsClasses of interventionsSanitationCountriesOutcome measuresIncentivesEducation campaignsCampaignFinancial benefitsLatrinesMicrocreditPovertyMicrodataHouseholdsProduct purchaseSample of studyPolicy
2023
Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem
Bakhtiar M, Guiteras R, Levinsohn J, Mobarak A. Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem. Journal Of Development Economics 2023, 162: 103072. PMID: 37139484, PMCID: PMC10115903, DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103072.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPercentage point increaseMedium termPoint increasePublic health externalitiesCommunity-level collective actionShort termInvestment decisionsCollective action problemsHealth externalitiesPublic pledgeFinancial incentivesLatrine ownershipFinancial rewardsHygienic latrinesAction problemsSanitation investmentsSocial normsHouseholdsNeighboring householdsOwnershipPublic commitmentSocial recognitionGroup membersRural BangladeshStrong impact
2021
Subsidies for technology adoption: Experimental evidence from rural Cameroon
Meriggi N, Bulte E, Mobarak A. Subsidies for technology adoption: Experimental evidence from rural Cameroon. Journal Of Development Economics 2021, 153: 102710. DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102710.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchShort-term subsidiesLow use intensityFuture willingnessAllocative roleAuction designNew productsStrike pricePurchase priceSubsidiesPricesTechnology adoptionFuture demandWillingnessTwo-stage experimentNet effectPayRural CameroonSame productUse intensityMain resultsHouseholdsBeneficiariesEvidenceDemandSocial learningChapter 84 Social networks analysis in agricultural economies
Barnett-Howell Z, Mobarak A. Chapter 84 Social networks analysis in agricultural economies. Handbook Of Agricultural Economics 2021, 5: 4613-4652. DOI: 10.1016/bs.hesagr.2021.10.010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAgricultural economyRisk sharing networksSocial tiesEconomic behaviorEconomic goodMicrofinance institutionsSocial network analysisConduit of informationState institutionsTechnology adoptionGovernment servicesSocial relationsNetwork theoryHouseholdsAgrarian societyNetwork analysisEconomySocial connectionsGoodsBroad networkCensus surveyTiesInstitutionsChoiceNetwork formation
2020
Migration and the labour market impacts of COVID-19
Barker N, Davis C, López-Peña P, Mitchell H, Mobarak A, Naguib K, Reimão M, Shenoy A, Vernot C. Migration and the labour market impacts of COVID-19. WIDER Working Paper 2020, 2020 DOI: 10.35188/unu-wider/2020/896-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLabor market impactMigrant householdsOrigin communitiesExtent of vulnerabilityRemittance incomeFood insecuritySecondary dataMigrantsCOVID-19 pandemicPanel datasetDetailed microdataHouseholdsMarket impactInsecurityPolicyCOVID-19MicrodataCommunityIncomeNepalEarningsGreater health risksBangladeshVulnerabilityPandemic
2018
ESTIMATING THE HEALTH AND SOCIOECONOMIC EFFECTS OF COUSIN MARRIAGE IN SOUTH ASIA
Mobarak A, Chaudhry T, Brown J, Zelenska T, Khan M, Chaudry S, Wajid R, Bittles A, Li S. ESTIMATING THE HEALTH AND SOCIOECONOMIC EFFECTS OF COUSIN MARRIAGE IN SOUTH ASIA. Journal Of Biosocial Science 2018, 51: 418-435. PMID: 30289091, DOI: 10.1017/s0021932018000275.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPositive economic effectsQuasi-random variationEmpirical strategyEconomic effectsUnobserved characteristicsTime of marriageEconomic causesPolicy significanceDowry paymentsEffect of marriageSocioeconomic effectsEmpirical researchPrimary dataSouth AsiaPaymentsPovertyHouseholdsImpact of consanguinityCountriesRate of consanguinityChild healthPakistanEstimatingPrevious estimatesPropensity
2005
The Effects of Urban Spatial Structure on Travel Demand in the United States
Bento A, Cropper M, Mobarak A, Vinha K. The Effects of Urban Spatial Structure on Travel Demand in the United States. The Review Of Economics And Statistics 2005, 87: 466-478. DOI: 10.1162/0034653054638292.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRoad densityJobs-housing balancePublic transit supplyUrban spatial structureCommute mode choiceAnnual vehicle milesCity shapeHousehold VMTUrban formTransit supplyTravel demandMode choiceAnnual VMTIndividual elasticitiesUrban areasVehicle milesSpatial structureSample householdsCityVMTUnited StatesHouseholdsCentralityMilesAtlanta