Bryce Millett Steinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 5737479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryce Millett Steinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryce Millett |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinberg |
| SIGNATURE | STEINBERG B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Water, Health and Wealth
Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured. Frequently, the water supply fails in the developing world, especially when users do not pay the marginal cost of water. This paper uses the timing of frequent, unexpected water service outages in Lusaka, Zambia to identify the short‐term impacts of piped water access on contagious disease, economic activity and time use. We use microdata f…
Transforming cities
Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change? Regional Studies. Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public action and enhance the effectiveness of uprisings. Second, cities may increase the demand for democracy relative to dicta…
Drought of Opportunities
Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time allocation differ by age. Using data on test scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to age 2) but decrease human capital from age 5 to 16. Children switch out of school …
Do IT service centers promote school enrollment? Evidence from India
Drought of Opportunities
Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time allocation differ by age. Using data on test scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to age 2) but decrease human capital from age 5 to 16. Children switch out of school …
Transforming cities
Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change? Regional Studies. Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public action and enhance the effectiveness of uprisings. Second, cities may increase the demand for democracy relative to dicta…
Do IT service centers promote school enrollment? Evidence from India
Water, Health and Wealth
Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured. Frequently, the water supply fails in the developing world, especially when users do not pay the marginal cost of water. This paper uses the timing of frequent, unexpected water service outages in Lusaka, Zambia to identify the short‐term impacts of piped water access on contagious disease, economic activity and time use. We use microdata f…
Do IT service centers promote school enrollment? Evidence from India
Transforming cities
Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change? Regional Studies. Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public action and enhance the effectiveness of uprisings. Second, cities may increase the demand for democracy relative to dicta…
Drought of Opportunities
Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time allocation differ by age. Using data on test scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to age 2) but decrease human capital from age 5 to 16. Children switch out of school …
Water, Health and Wealth
Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured. Frequently, the water supply fails in the developing world, especially when users do not pay the marginal cost of water. This paper uses the timing of frequent, unexpected water service outages in Lusaka, Zambia to identify the short‐term impacts of piped water access on contagious disease, economic activity and time use. We use microdata f…
Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Capital (architecture (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (1 work)