Noemi Kreif
Biographic Data
| ID | 1741556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noemi Kreif |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noemi |
| FAMILY NAME | Kreif |
| SIGNATURE | KREIF N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9008-5690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring the heterogeneous impacts of Indonesia’s conditional cash transfer scheme (PKH) on maternal health care utilisation using instrumental causal forests
This paper uses instrumental causal forests, a novel machine learning method, to explore the treatment effect heterogeneity of Indonesia’s conditional cash transfer scheme on maternal health care utilisation. Using randomised programme assignment as an instrument for enrollment in the scheme, we estimate conditional local average treatment effects for four key outcomes: good assisted delivery, delivery in a health care facility, pre-natal visits,…
Health facility quality peer effects
Public Policies and Femicides during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Public Healthcare Financing during Counterinsurgency Efforts
How do government counterinsurgency efforts affect local public health financing during civil conflicts? We investigate this question in the context of the protracted conflict in Colombia. Using data on antinarcotics operations and health transfers from the central government to municipal governments, we employ both panel estimations and an instrumental variable to address concerns of endogeneity. We first show evidence of a government discretion…
The effect of conflict-related violence intensity and alcohol use on mental health
We investigated the causal impact of conflict-related violence on individual mental health and its potential pathways in Colombia. Using data from before and after the 2016 peace accord between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), we adopted a difference-in-differences empirical design combined with instrumental variables estimation. We also used formal mediation analysis to investigate a possible mediat…
Covid-19 and violence against women
The impact of civil conflict on child health
Inequalities in catastrophic health expenditures in conflict-affected areas and the Colombian peace agreement
Conflict-deescalation and the peace agreement may have facilitated lower-income groups to have access to health services, especially in territories highly impacted by conflict. This, consequently, may have led to higher levels of out-of-pocket expenditures and, therefore, to higher chances of experiencing catastrophic expenditures for lower-income groups in comparison to higher-income groups. Therefore, results indicate the importance of designin…
A light of hope? Inequalities in mental health before and after the peace agreement in Colombia
The reduction in the contribution of conflict-related variables for explaining mental health inequalities could mean that the negative consequences of conflict on mental health have started to diminish in the short run after the peace agreement. Nevertheless, conflict and the presence of other socioeconomic inequalities still contribute to persistent adverse mental health outcomes in the overall population. Thus, public policy should be oriented …
A framework for conducting economic evaluations alongside natural experiments
Internationally, policy makers are increasingly focussed on reducing the detrimental consequences and rising costs associated with unhealthy diets, inactivity, smoking, alcohol and other risk factors on the health of their populations. This has led to an increase in the demand for evidence-based, cost-effective Population Health Interventions (PHIs) to reverse this trend. Given that research designs such as randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are…
Estimating causal effects
Difference-in-differences (DiD) estimators provide unbiased treatment effect estimates when, in the absence of treatment, the average outcomes for the treated and control groups would have followed parallel trends over time. This assumption is implausible in many settings. An alternative assumption is that the potential outcomes are independent of treatment status, conditional on past outcomes. This paper considers three methods that share this a…
Health-related quality-of-life of people with HIV in the era of combination antiretroviral treatment
BACKGROUND: Combination antiretroviral therapy has substantially increased life-expectancy in people living with HIV, but the effects of chronic infection on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are unclear. We aimed to compare HRQoL in people with HIV and the general population. METHODS: We merged two UK cross-sectional surveys: the ASTRA study, which recruited participants aged 18 years or older with HIV from eight outpatient clinics in the U…
Validation of the SF-36 in patients with endometriosis
The SF-36--particularly BP and the PCS--appears to be a valid and responsive measure for endometriosis and its treatment
Validation of the SF-36 in patients with endometriosis
The SF-36--particularly BP and the PCS--appears to be a valid and responsive measure for endometriosis and its treatment
Health-related quality-of-life of people with HIV in the era of combination antiretroviral treatment
BACKGROUND: Combination antiretroviral therapy has substantially increased life-expectancy in people living with HIV, but the effects of chronic infection on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are unclear. We aimed to compare HRQoL in people with HIV and the general population. METHODS: We merged two UK cross-sectional surveys: the ASTRA study, which recruited participants aged 18 years or older with HIV from eight outpatient clinics in the U…
Estimating causal effects
Difference-in-differences (DiD) estimators provide unbiased treatment effect estimates when, in the absence of treatment, the average outcomes for the treated and control groups would have followed parallel trends over time. This assumption is implausible in many settings. An alternative assumption is that the potential outcomes are independent of treatment status, conditional on past outcomes. This paper considers three methods that share this a…
A framework for conducting economic evaluations alongside natural experiments
Internationally, policy makers are increasingly focussed on reducing the detrimental consequences and rising costs associated with unhealthy diets, inactivity, smoking, alcohol and other risk factors on the health of their populations. This has led to an increase in the demand for evidence-based, cost-effective Population Health Interventions (PHIs) to reverse this trend. Given that research designs such as randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are…
The impact of civil conflict on child health
Inequalities in catastrophic health expenditures in conflict-affected areas and the Colombian peace agreement
Conflict-deescalation and the peace agreement may have facilitated lower-income groups to have access to health services, especially in territories highly impacted by conflict. This, consequently, may have led to higher levels of out-of-pocket expenditures and, therefore, to higher chances of experiencing catastrophic expenditures for lower-income groups in comparison to higher-income groups. Therefore, results indicate the importance of designin…
A light of hope? Inequalities in mental health before and after the peace agreement in Colombia
The reduction in the contribution of conflict-related variables for explaining mental health inequalities could mean that the negative consequences of conflict on mental health have started to diminish in the short run after the peace agreement. Nevertheless, conflict and the presence of other socioeconomic inequalities still contribute to persistent adverse mental health outcomes in the overall population. Thus, public policy should be oriented …
Covid-19 and violence against women
Public Healthcare Financing during Counterinsurgency Efforts
How do government counterinsurgency efforts affect local public health financing during civil conflicts? We investigate this question in the context of the protracted conflict in Colombia. Using data on antinarcotics operations and health transfers from the central government to municipal governments, we employ both panel estimations and an instrumental variable to address concerns of endogeneity. We first show evidence of a government discretion…
The effect of conflict-related violence intensity and alcohol use on mental health
We investigated the causal impact of conflict-related violence on individual mental health and its potential pathways in Colombia. Using data from before and after the 2016 peace accord between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), we adopted a difference-in-differences empirical design combined with instrumental variables estimation. We also used formal mediation analysis to investigate a possible mediat…
Health facility quality peer effects
Public Policies and Femicides during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Exploring the heterogeneous impacts of Indonesia’s conditional cash transfer scheme (PKH) on maternal health care utilisation using instrumental causal forests
This paper uses instrumental causal forests, a novel machine learning method, to explore the treatment effect heterogeneity of Indonesia’s conditional cash transfer scheme on maternal health care utilisation. Using randomised programme assignment as an instrument for enrollment in the scheme, we estimate conditional local average treatment effects for four key outcomes: good assisted delivery, delivery in a health care facility, pre-natal visits,…
Medicine (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Demography (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works)