Education
Some Children Left Behind? Distributional Impacts of Increasing Teaching Literacy in Uganda. Julie Buhl-Wiggers, Jason Kerwin, Juan Sebastián Muñoz, Jeffrey Smith, and Rebecca Thornton. Accepted at the Journal of Econometrics.
Boys lagging behind: Unpacking Gender Differences in Academic Achievement across East Africa. Buhl-Wiggers, Julie, Sam Jones, and Rebecca Thornton. 2021. International Journal of Educational Development. 83, 102382.
The Effects of a Multi-Faceted Education Program on Enrollment, Equity, Learning and School Management: Evidence from India. Delavallade, Clara, Alan Griffith, and Rebecca Thornton. 2021. World Bank Economic Review.
Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures? Jason Kerwin and Rebecca Thornton. 2020. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 103 (2): 251-264.
Education as Liberation? Willa Friedman, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, and Rebecca Thornton. 2016. Economica, 83: 1-30.
Incentives to Learn Kremer, Michael, Edward Miguel, and Rebecca Thornton. 2009. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 91 (3):437-456.
Health
“Surviving Bad News: Health Information Without Treatment Options.” Alberto Ciancioa, Fabrice Kampfen, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Rebecca Thornton. Accepted at American Economic Review Insights. Working Paper.
The Mother in Law Effect: Heterogeneous Impacts of Counseling on Family Planning Take-up in Jordan. 2024. Priyasmita Ghosh and Rebecca Thornton. Review of Economics of the Household. Working Paper.
Factors associated with knowledge and use of home pregnancy test kits in Uganda. Kamei, Akito, Ryoko Sato and Rebecca Thornton. 2023. PLOS Global Health, 3(7): e0002165.
Effect of Soda Taxes on Youth Consumption: Evidence from a Developing Country. Cawley, John, Michael Daly, and Rebecca Thornton. 2022. Health Economics, 31(6): 1033-1045.
Effect of Pregnancy Tests on Demand for Family Planning: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda. Akito Kamei, Ryoko Sato, and Rebecca Thornton. 2021. Reproductive Health, 18, 231.
How do Women Learn they Are Pregnant? The Introduction of Clinics and Pregnancy Uncertainty in Nepal. Isabel Musse, Rebecca Thornton, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2022. Studies in Family Planning, 53(1): 43-59.
The Effects of Health Insurance within Families: Experimental Evidence from Nicaragua. Fitzpatrick, Anne, and Rebecca Thornton. 2019. World Bank Economic Review, 33(3): 736–749, Online Appendix
Making Marriages Last: Trust is Good, Credible Information is Better. Kohler, Hans Peter, and Rebecca Thornton. 2018. In Siwan Anderson, Lori Beaman and Jean-Philippe Platteau (Ed.), Towards Gender Equity in Development. Oxford University Press; UNU-WIDER.
Responding to Risk: Circumcision, Information, and HIV Prevention. Godlonton, Susan, Alister Munthali, and Rebecca Thornton. 2016. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 98(2): 333-349.
Demand for Medical Male Circumcision. Chinkhumba, Jobiba, Godlonton, Susan, and Rebecca Thornton. 2014. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6(2): 152-77.
Learning from Others’ HIV Testing: Updating Beliefs and Responding to Risk. Godlonton, Susan, and Rebecca Thornton. 2013. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 103(3): 439-444.
Determinants of Technology Adoption: Peer Effects in Menstrual Cup Take-Up. Oster, Emily and Rebecca Thornton. 2012. Journal of the European Economic Association, 10(6): 1263-1293. Online Appendix
Evaluating the Impact of Health Programmes on Productivity. Burns, Justine, Malcolm Keswell, and Rebecca Thornton. 2012. African Development Review, 24(4): 302-315.
HIV Testing, Subjective Beliefs and Economic Behavior. Thornton, Rebecca. 2012. Journal of Development Economics, 99(2): 300–313.
Conditional Cash Transfers and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Unconditionally Promising? Kohler, Hans-Peter and Rebecca Thornton. 2012. World Bank Economic Review, 26: 165-190. Online Appendix
Peer Effects in Learning HIV Results. Godlonton, Susan and Rebecca Thornton. 2012. Journal of Development Economics, 97(1): 118–129.
Menstruation, Sanitary Products and School Attendance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation. Oster, Emily and Rebecca Thornton. 2011. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(1): 91-100. Online Appendix
Social Security Health Insurance for the Informal Sector in Nicaragua: A Randomized Evaluation. Thornton, Rebecca, Laurel Hatt, Erica Field, Mursaleena Islam, Freddy Solís, and Martha Azuzena González Moncada. 2010. Health Economics, 19(S1): 181–206.
Geospatial Analysis of Condom Availability and Accessibility in Urban Malawi. Shacham, Enbal, Rebecca Thornton, Susan Godlonton, Ryan Murphy, and Jake Gilliland. 2016. International Journal of STD & AIDS, Jan; 27(1): 44-50.
Medical Male Circumcision: How does price affect the risk-profile of take-up? Godlonton Susan, and Rebecca Thornton. 2016. Preventive Medicine, Nov;92:68-73.
Counseling Women and Couples on Family Planning: A Randomized Study El-Khoury, Marianne Rebecca Thornton, Minki Chatterji, Sarah Kamhawi, Phoebe Sloane, Mays Halassa. 2016. Studies in Family Planning, 47(3): 222-238.
What Do People Actually Take Away From Public Health Education Campaigns? Incorrect Inferences about Male Circumcision and Female HIV Infection Risk in a Cluster Randomized Trial in Malawi Maughan-Brown, Brendan, Susan Godlonton, Rebecca Thornton, and Atheendar S. Venkataramani. 2015. AIDS and Behavior, Jul; 19(7): 1170-1177.
How Evidence-Based Medicine Affects Family Planning Providers: A Randomized Experiment in Jordan. El-Khoury, Marianne, Rebecca Thornton, Minki Chatterji, Maha Shadid, and Soonie Choi. 2015. BMC Health Services Research, 15:449.
Perceptions of Male Circumcision among Married Couples in Rural Malawi. Shacham, Enbal, Susan Godlonton, and Rebecca Thornton. 2014. Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, Sept-Oct; 13(5): 443-449.
Cohort Profile: The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH). Kohler, Hans-Peter; Watkins, Susan C.; Behrman, Jere R.; Anglewicz, Philip; Kohler, Iliana V.; Thornton, Rebecca L.; Mkandawire, James; Honde, Hastings; Hawara, Augustine; Chilima, Ben; Bandawe, Chiwoza and Mwapasa, Victor. 2014. International Journal of Epidemiology, 44(2): 394-404. Online Appendix
Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Oral Sex among Rural and Urban Malawian Men. Kerwin, Jason, Rebecca Thornton, and Sallie M. Foley. 2013. International Journal of Sexual Behavior, 26(1): 66-77.
Missing Safer Sex Strategies in HIV Prevention: A Call for Further Research. Kerwin, Jason T., Sallie M. Foley, Rebecca L. Thornton, Paulin Basinga, and Jobiba Chinkhumba. 2011. African Population Studies Journal, 25(2):267-285.
Acceptance of Repeat Population-Based Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV in Rural Malawi. Obare, Francis, Peter Fleming, Philip Anglewicz, Rebecca Thornton, Francis Martinson, Agatha Kapatuka, Michelle Poulin, Susan Watkins, Hans-Peter Kohler. 2009. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 85: 139-144.
Increasing the Acceptability of HIV Counseling and Testing with Three C’s: Convenience, Confidentiality and Credibility. Angotti N, Bula A, Gaydosh L, Kimchi E, Thornton R, and Yeatman S. 2009. Social Science & Medicine, 68(12): 2263-2270.
The Demand for, and Impact of, Learning HIV Status. Thornton, Rebecca. 2008. American Economic Review, 98(5): 1829–1863.
Gender
Moving in Academia: Who Moves and What Happens After? Gualavisi, Melani, Marieke Kleemans, and Rebecca Thornton. 2024. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 114: 232-237.
Fully Promoted: The Distribution and Determinants of Full Professorship in the Economics Profession. Kleemans, Marieke and Rebecca Thornton. 2023. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 111:117-112.
Gender Differences in Economics Course-Taking and Majoring: Findings from an RCT. Halim, Daniel, Elizabeth Powers, and Rebecca Thornton. 2022. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 112: 597-602.
Who Belongs? The Determinants of Selective Membership into the National Bureau of Economic Research. Kleemans, Marieke, and Rebecca Thornton. 2021. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 111: 117-122.
The Consequences of Early Marriage in the Developing World Jensen, Robert, and Rebecca Thornton. 2003. Oxfam Journal of Gender and Development, 11(2): 9-19.
Other Research
New Cellular Networks in Malawi: Correlates of Service Rollout and Effects on Employment. Batzilis, Dimitrios, Taryn Dinkelman, Emily Oster, Rebecca Thornton and Deric Zanera. 2016. in NBER Volume on African Economic Successes, (eds.) S. Edwards, S. Johnson, and D. Weil. University of Chicago Press.