RESEARCH PAGE
Refereed Publications:
(see also: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9164-2302)
Ø 2025 “Analytical Methods and Tools Used for Priority
Setting and Costing for Health Benefits Packages in Low- and Lower
Middle-Income Countries and Economies: Current Approaches” In Alwan, A; Mirutse, M.K.; Twea, P.D.; Norheim, O. F., eds.
2025. Country-Led Priority Setting for Health. Disease Control Priorities,
Fourth Edition: Volume 1. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Lead Author: David A.Watkins (University of Washington)
Co-authors: Pakwenja D. Twea; Karin Stenberg
Ø 2023 “Using costing to facilitate policy making towards
Universal Health Coverage: findings and recommendations from country-level
experiences” BMJ-Global Health 8:e010735
Co-authors: Wajeeha Raza; Jolene Skordis; Agnes Soucat; Karin Stenberg; Ala Alwan
Supplementary
Material (Online BMJ, PDFs)
- Costing Survey Questionnaire (Annex 1)
- Full Survey results (Annex 2)
- Basic Terminology in Context (Annex 3)
Ø 2021 “Identifying Major Health-System Challenges in
Developing Countries Using PERs: Equity is the Elephant in the Room” Health Systems and Reform 2(4)
Co-authors: Abdo Yazbeck
Open
access link (Taylor&Francis - KHSR)
Ø 2019 “Common Goods for Health: Economic Rationale and
Tools for Prioritization” Health Systems
and Reform 5(4)
Co-authors: Peter Smith, Abdo Yazbeck, Agnes Soucat
Open
access link (Taylor&Francis - KHSR)
Electronic
Supplementary Material (online)
Table A1 (own PDF file-CGH analysis of full
list of cost-effective interventions from DCP-3)
Ø 2019 “The Case for Public Financing of Environmental
Common Goods for Health” Health Systems
and Reform 5(4)
Co-authors: Carlos Corvalan, Alexandra Earle, Odd Hanssen,
Selina Lo, Maria Neira,
Annette Pruss-Ustun, and Agnes Soucat
Open
access link (Taylor&Francis - KHSR)
Electronic
Supplementary Material (online)
Appendix 1 (PDF, own proofed version)
Ø 2011 “Son Preference in Indian Families: Absolute Versus
Relative Wealth Effects.” Demography, 48
(1):342-370
Link to
Springer - Demography article online
Links to
Electronic Supplementary Material (on Demography/Springer website)
ESM 2: STABILITY
TESTS FOR SMALL SAMPLE PCA (DOC 53 kb):
ESM 3: ALTERNATIVE
LOCAL AREA GROUPINGS FOR NFHS-2 (DOC 57 kb):
ESM 4: ADDITIONAL
RESULTS (DOC 455 kb):
ESM 5: GEOGRAPHICAL
REACH OF MARRIAGES (DOC 33 kb)
Ø 2006 “Immunization in India 1993-1999: Wealth, Gender,
and Regional Inequalities Revisited” with Abdo Yazbeck (World Bank). Social Science and Medicine, Vol.
62(3), pp. 694-706
Abstract
Elsevier
- Science Direct article online
Ø 2006 “Effect of Price Information on Residential Water
Demand”. Applied Economics, Vol. 38(4), pp. 383-93
Abstract
Ø 2005 “Using Water Bills to Reinforce Price Signals:
Evidence from the
IWA publishing article online
Conference
version (IWA-Economics and Statistics, Rethymno,
Crete, July 2005)
Ø 2001 “Demand Specification for Municipal Water
Management: Evaluation of the Stone-Geary Form” With
Ron Griffin (
Abstract
UW Press - Land
Economics article online
Other Publications
Ø "Immunization in
Official
PDF: World Bank Documents Online
Ø Ph.D.
Thesis,
"Inter-Temporal and Spatial Choice Between Ground and Surface Water in Municipalities With Land
Subsidence"
2000. Dissertation Committee Chair: Peter Mieszkowski.
Abstract 3-page summary
Full-text
online
Working papers/ on-going projects:
Ø Two-dimensional analysis of relative efficiency of public expenditure in Education and Health.
Summary
document (not to be quoted)
Ø From Son-Preference to Daughter Neglect in India: Evidence from Childhood Immunization.
Ø Best practice in Evidence-Based Health Policy in Low and Middle Income Countries: Learning from ten years of World Bank Public Expenditure Reviews and Poverty Assessment.
Ø Constructing Health Achievement Indices with Inequality Aversion: an Application to Indian States.
Nov.
2008 Report prepared for the World-Bank: Construction of an Indian
States Health Achievement Index and Equality-Adjusted Health Achievement Index
(ISHAI and ISHAIEQ)
Other (unpublished research and collaborations):
Ø Statistical discrimination and returns to experience in the market place. With John List and Michael Price
Ø Using Water Bills as a Conservation Tool: Will Residential Consumers Get the Message?
Ø Resource Use and Verbal Sanctions: Can Normative Language on Utility Bills Promote Conservation?
Ø Heads Up, Heads Down: Optimal Groundwater Use in Growing Cities with Land Subsidence
2005 California Water Utility Billing Survey
Some
Research Links
Measuring Health Equity and
Financial Protection (ADePT)
WHO Global Health Expenditure database
(Based on NHA)
DHS-NHFS
(Demographic and Health Surveys)
HNP statistics, World Bank
(Health and Population)
Unesco Institute of
Statistics data (Education)
EDStats,
World Bank (Education)
Environmental Protection Index
(EPI) 2024
Worldwide
Governance Indicators
Center for Systemic Peace,
Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research (including Polity IV:
Regime Authority Characteristics and Transitions Datasets)