Health and development

My work focuses on developing and evaluating new and innovative approaches to improving health and development in low resource settings, and on measuring the long-term economic benefits of health improvements, particularly during the early childhood period. I am the principal investigator of ongoing cohort studies in Brazil, Laos, Peru, Tanzania and Zambia, and collaborating with on a range of global partners on intervention trials in Brazil, Congo DRC, Cote d’Ivoire, Pakistan, South Africa and Zambia.

Selected Publications

Fehr, D., Fink, G., & Jack, B. K. (2022). Poor and rational: decision-making under scarcity. Journal of Political Economy, 130(11), 2862–2897. https://doi.org/10.1086/720466

URLs

Fink, G., Kelsey Jack, B., & Masiye, F. (2020). Seasonal liquidity, rural labor markets, and agricultural production. Am Econ Rev, 110(11), 3351–3392. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20180607

URLs

Black, M. M., Walker, S. P., Fernald, L. C. H., Andersen, C. T., DiGirolamo, A. M., Lu, C., McCoy, D. C., Fink, G., Shawar, Y. R., Shiffman, J., Devercelli, A. E., Wodon, Q. T., Vargas-Barón, E., & Grantham-McGregor, S. (2017). Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course. The Lancet, 389(10064), 77–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)31389-7

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Prof. Dr. Günther Fink

Health and development

Selected Publications

Fehr, D., Fink, G., & Jack, B. K. (2022). Poor and rational: decision-making under scarcity. Journal of Political Economy, 130(11), 2862–2897. https://doi.org/10.1086/720466

Fink, G., Kelsey Jack, B., & Masiye, F. (2020). Seasonal liquidity, rural labor markets, and agricultural production. Am Econ Rev, 110(11), 3351–3392. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20180607