Molly Lipscomb

Biographic Data

ID3955270
NAMEMolly Lipscomb
GIVEN NAMESMolly
FAMILY NAMELipscomb
SIGNATURELIPSCOMB M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Virginia
ORCID0000-0001-9680-1192
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Identifying the types of government interventions that work in the sanitation sector

    Open AccessBritta Augsburg, Habiba Djebbari et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2026

  • The impact of infrastructure investment on resilience to environmental shocks: Evidence from Ecuador

    Open AccessMolly Lipscomb, Cesar Montalvo et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2025References: 3

  • Evidence on designing sanitation interventions

    Open AccessBritta Augsburg, Andrew Foster et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2024References: 9

    Sanitation is a public good, the responsibility for which is shared between households and the government. Interventions in the sector, therefore, must be designed with an eye toward reducing crowd out. We discuss the new findings on sanitation provision from the 12 papers in this special issue in the context of a simple model of household choice of levels of sanitation investment in the face of joint responsibility between the government and hou…

  • Privatization of public goods: Evidence from the sanitation sector in Senegal

    Open AccessJoshua Deutschmann, Jared Gars et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2022Cited by: 2References: 5

    Privatization of a public good (the management of sewage treatment centers in Dakar, Senegal) leads to an increase in the productivity of downstream sewage dumping companies and a decrease in downstream prices of the services they provide to households. We use the universe of legal dumping of sanitation waste from May 2009 to May 2018 to show that legal dumping increased substantially following privatization-on average an increase of 74%, or an i…

  • Property rights and deforestation: Evidence from the Terra Legal land reform in the Brazilian Amazon

    Open AccessMolly Lipscomb, Niveditha PrabakaranARTICLEWorld Development2020Cited by: 10References: 2

  • Decentralization and Pollution Spillovers: Evidence from the Re-drawing of County Borders in Brazil

    Molly Lipscomb, Ahmed Mushfiq MobarakARTICLEThe Review of Economic Studies2017

    Decentralization can improve service delivery, but it can also generate externalities across jurisdictional boundaries. We examine the nature and size of water pollution externalities as rivers flow across jurisdictions. Panel data on water pollution in Brazilian rivers coupled with county splits that change the locations of borders allow us to identify the spatial patterns of pollution as rivers approach and cross borders, controlling for fixed …

  • Services Reform and Manufacturing Performance: Evidence from India

    Open AccessJens Matthias Arnold, Jens Arnold et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2016Cited by: 22References: 37

    Journal Article Services Reform and Manufacturing Performance: Evidence from India Get access Jens Matthias Arnold, Jens Matthias Arnold OECD Economics Department Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Beata Javorcik, Beata Javorcik University of Oxford and CEPR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Molly Lipscomb, Molly Lipscomb University of Virginia Search for other works by …