Karra Speaks in Malawi on Family Planning Field Experiment
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently presented the preliminary results from his family planning field experiment to the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Karra gave a talk entitled “The Causal Effect of Improved Access to Family Planning: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Urban Malawi.”
The two seminars were the first of several planned outreach efforts to engage with stakeholders and policymakers in women’s health and well-being, including with the Malawi Ministry of Health and Reproductive Health Directorate, to discuss the policy and programmatic implications of the results from the experiment.
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.