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Mansuri, Ghazala

Poverty Reduction and Equity Group, World Bank
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Rural Land, Labor and Credit Markets; Microfinance; Poverty Dynamics; Political Economy of Participatory Development; Field Experiments in Governance and Politics; Impact Evaluation of Institutional and Governance Reforms
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Last updated: July 6, 2023
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Ghazala Mansuri is a Lead Economist in the Poverty Reduction and Equity Group. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University and has published extensively in leading journals in Economics and Development. Her research spans four broad areas: Rural land, labor and credit markets; the economics of household behavior; the political economy of participatory development and institutional and governance reforms for development. Her research on the political economy of local development includes a number of evaluations of participatory development programs.  
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End date: 2022 × Sustainable Development Goals: SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being ×

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    The Impact of Social Mobilization on Health Service Delivery and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Rural Pakistan
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2018-01) Khalid, Salma; Gine, Xavier; Mansuri, Ghazala
    This paper uses a randomized community development program in rural Pakistan to assess the impact of citizen engagement on the quality of public health services. The program had a strong emphasis on organizing women, who also identified health services as a development priority at baseline. Assessing the program at midline, the paper finds that the mobilization effort alone had a significant impact on the performance of village-based health providers. The study detects economically large improvements in pregnancy and well-baby visits by lady health workers, as well as increased utilization of pre- and post-natal care by pregnant women. In contrast, the quality of supra-village health services did not improve, underscoring the importance of community enforcement and monitoring capacity for improving service delivery.
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    Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks: Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2019-10) Heath, Rachel; Mansuri, Ghazala; Rijkers, Bob
    Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market data that were collected in urban Ghana, this paper documents that men are 9 percentage points more likely to work in weeks in which another worker in the household is unexpectedly ill. The paper provides suggestive evidence that these effects are strongest among very risk averse men, men in poorer households, and men who are the highest earners in their household. By contrast, women display a net zero response to another worker's illness, even women who are the highest earners in their household.