Karra Presents at PAA Annual Meeting

Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently attended the Population Association of America’s Annual Meeting in Austin, TX where he chaired a session on the determinants of child health and mortality and presented several papers and posters.

The papers and posters Karra presented on included “Distance to Facility and Healthcare Utilization in Tanzania: Unbiased and Consistent Estimation Using Perturbed Location Data,” “In-Utero Exposure to Ambient Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Child Mortality: Pooled Evidence From 43 Low- and Middle-Income Countries,” “Determinants of Child Health and Mortality,” “The Causal Effect of Improved Access to Family Planning on Postpartum Contraceptive Use: Evidence From a Field Experiment in Urban Malawi,” “Ethnolinguistic Concordance and the Provision of Postpartum IUD (PPIUD) Counseling Services in Sri Lanka,” and “Assessing the Role of Women’s Autonomy and Acceptability of Intimate Partner Violence on Maternal Health Care Utilization in 63 Low- and Middle-Income Countries.”

Karra’s academic and research interests are broadly in development economics, health economics, quantitative methods, and applied demography. His research utilizes experimental and non-experimental methods to investigate the relationships between population, health, and economic development in low- and middle-income countries.