Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020)

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Dr. Tsui is the senior technical adviser to the PMA2020 project.  “Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020) uses innovative mobile technology to routinely gather data on family planning and water sanitation.  Data […]

Pregnancy Outcomes and Infant Survival in the Era of Universal HAART in Africa

Globally, there is a renewed commitment to eliminate mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV. In Malawi, universal, lifelong combination antiretroviral treatment (ART) is recommended for all HIV-infected women who are pregnant, […]

Moving to Opportunity: Platform to Improve Health

The goal of this project is to test the feasibility of linking Moving To Opportunity (MTO) with insurance claims data.  MTO is a social experiment in which families living in […]

Youth and Adult Microfinance to Improve Resilience Outcomes in DRC

Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the setting for our study, has primarily been characterized by a loss of security, unpredictability and lack of structure in daily life. Essential services […]

Medicaid and the Evolution of the US Transfer System After the Great Recession

In a project funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, he will extend his June 2015 Demography PAA Presidential Address charting trends from 1984 to 2011 in social transfers to the […]

Using Propensity Scores for Casual Inference with Covariate Measurement Error

Many studies in public health, including comparative effectiveness research, aim to answer questions such as “what works for whom?” or “under what conditions does it work?” Such questions can often […]

Switching Schools and Navigating Neighborhoods: Can Housing Vouchers Improve Educational Achievement for Low Income Minority Youth?

This study capitalizes on the Baltimore Mobility Program, an innovative housing voucher intervention, to explore whether improvements in neighborhood access translate into gains in educational opportunity and achievement for poor […]

Rural Migrant Children in Urban Schools

The study examines the process by which rural-to-urban migration generates and sustains new forms of education segregation in urban areas. The project highlights whether and how urban schools exacerbate educational […]