Eeshani Kandpal

Biographic Data

ID2546109
NAMEEeshani Kandpal
GIVEN NAMESEeshani
FAMILY NAMEKandpal
SIGNATUREKANDPAL E
AFFILIATIONSWorld Bank Group
ORCID0000-0001-9055-6296
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS21
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • From childhood abduction to adulthood

    Open AccessAlessandra Cassar, Eeshani Kandpal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2026References: 13

  • Know-do gaps in the clinical management of childhood illness

    Open AccessEmma Clarke-Deelder, Pablo Amor Fernandez et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    To improve quality of care, it is critical to understand why providers do not consistently follow clinical guidelines. Our findings suggest that adherence to protocols is low, but that knowledge is not the primary barrier. Interventions to improve quality must go beyond improving knowledge to also address other drivers of provider behavior such as motivation, workload, and systemic constraints

  • The effect of performance-based financing interventions on health worker motivation and job satisfaction

    Open AccessSneha Lamba, Jed Friedman et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025References: 43

    A long-standing concern suggests that performance-based financing (PBF) may undermine the intrinsic motivation of health workers by heightening extrinsic motivation concerns via the novel introduction of financial incentives. However, the theoretical effect of PBF on worker motivation and job satisfaction is ambiguous as these programs may also improve working conditions, staff engagement, and other factors that determine health worker morale. We…

  • Nutritional Inequality and Policy Targeting in South Asia

    Open AccessCaitlin Brown, Eeshani Kandpal et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review2025References: 83

    How much intra‐household inequality is there in nutritional outcomes, and what does this mean for policy targeting? Using Demographic and Health Survey data for the South Asia region, we show that two‐thirds of undernourished individuals live in households with others who are not undernourished. Within‐household inequality contributes almost as much to overall nutritional inequality as between‐household inequality. While wealth is significantly c…

  • Cash Transfers, Food Prices, and Nutrition Impacts on Ineligible Children

    Deon Filmer, Jed Friedman et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2023

    Can cash aid harm nonrecipients by raising local prices? We show that a household-targeted cash transfer in the Philippines increases the prices of perishable foods in some markets and raises stunting among nonbeneficiary children by 11 percentage points (34%). Impacts increase in the size of the village income shock and remoteness---and are sustained two and a half years after program introduction. Price effects from an experimental sample are c…

  • Why addressing inequality must be central to pandemic preparedness

    Open AccessSherin Varkey, Eeshani Kandpal et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Inequality in the Quality of Health Services

    Günther Fink, Eeshani Kandpal et al.ARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…2022Cited by: 2References: 34

    We use unique data on direct observations of patient-provider interactions linked to detailed patient exit interviews and household surveys to study the relationship between patients’ socioeconomic status and the quality of antenatal care in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We find a significant wealth-quality gradient: a 1 standard deviation in household wealth is associated with a 1.6–3.2 percentage point increase in protocol compliance, depen…

  • Disruptions in maternal and child health service utilization during Covid-19

    Open AccessGilad Shapira, Tashrik Ahmed et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    The coronavirus-19 pandemic and its secondary effects threaten the continuity of essential health services delivery, which may lead to worsened population health and a protracted public health crisis. We quantify such disruptions, focusing on maternal and child health, in eight sub-Saharan countries. Service volumes are extracted from administrative systems for 63 954 facilities in eight countries: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia,…

  • The Social Lives of Married Women Peer Effects in Female Autonomy and Investments in Children

    Kathy Baylis, Eeshani KandpalBOOK2019

    In patriarchal societies, sticky norms affect married women's social circles, their autonomy, and the outcomes of intra-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends, and over 80 percent do not have any friends of another caste. This paper examines the effect of a shock to friends' empowerment on a woman's autonomy, specifically physical mobility, access…

  • The social lives of married women

    Open AccessEeshani Kandpal, Kathy BaylisARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2019Cited by: 12References: 9

  • Beyond Average Treatment Effects

    Open AccessEeshani KandpalARTICLEWorld Development2011Cited by: 7References: 3