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Kathleen Beegle

Kathleen Beegle

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Economics and Finance

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53
Citations
12528
World Ranking
1182
National Ranking
714

Overview

Kathleen Beegle is affiliated with the World Bank in the United States. Their research spans economics, econometrics, finance, and social sciences, with subfields including economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, gender studies, safety research, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their work covers several important topics, such as microfinance and financial inclusion, income, poverty, and inequality, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, taxation and compliance studies, poverty, education and child welfare, global maternal and child health, and global health care issues.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kathleen Beegle include:

  • COVID-19 increased existing gender mortality gaps in high-income more than middle-income countries, 2024, International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Introduction to the journal of development economics special issue on methods and measurement, 2024, Journal of Development Economics
  • What Can We Learn from Experimenting with Survey Methods?, 2020, Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women-Led Businesses, 2022, The World Bank Research Observer
  • Premarital Fertility and Marital Timing in Malawi, 2021, Studies in Family Planning

Frequent co-authors with whom Kathleen Beegle has collaborated repeatedly include:

  • Gabriel Demombynes
  • Damien de Walque
  • Paul Gubbins
  • Jérémy Veillard
  • Clément Joubert

Major venues of publication include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • The World Bank Research Observer
  • Studies in Family Planning

Kathleen Beegle has contributed multiple book publications primarily linked to the World Bank and related publishers. Notable titles include:

  • The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women-Led Businesses, 2021
  • Financial Inclusion, Women, and Building Back Better, 2021
  • A Global View of Poverty, Gender, and Household Composition, 2021
  • Adapting Skills Training to Address Constraints to Women's Participation, 2020
  • The Equality Equation, 2020
  • Gender and Safety Nets: Priorities for Building Back Better, 2021
  • Missing SDG Gender Indicators, 2023
  • Women at Work: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban Djibouti, 2024
  • How Organized Is the Informal Sector?: The Role of Business Associations in Microenterprises in West Africa, 2025
  • COVID-19 Increased Existing Gender Mortality Gaps in High-Income Countries More than in Middle-Income Countries, 2024

Best Publications

  • Child labor and agricultural shocks

    Kathleen G. Beegle;Rajeev H. Dehejia;Roberta Gatti;Roberta Gatti

  • Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania : Evidence from a Tracking Survey

    Kathleen Beegle;Joachim De Weerdt;Stefan Dercon

  • Bargaining Power Within Couples and Use of Prenatal and Delivery Care in Indonesia

    Kathleen Beegle;Elizabeth Frankenberg;Duncan Thomas

  • Poverty in a Rising Africa

    Kathleen G. Beegle;Luc Christiaensen;Andrew L. Dabalen;Isis Gaddis

  • Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys: experimental results from Tanzania

    Kathleen Beegle;Joachim De Weerdt;Jed Friedman;John Gibson

  • Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys: Experimental results from Tanzania ☆

    Kathleen Beegle;Joachim De Weerdt;Jed Friedman;John Gibson

  • Helminth Infections: Soil-transmitted Helminth Infections and Schistosomiasis

    Peter J. Hotez;Donald A. P. Bundy;Kathleen Beegle;Simon Brooker

  • Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

    Kathleen Beegle;Rajeev H. Dehejia;Roberta Gatti

  • The impact of women's schooling on fertility and contraceptive use : a study of fourteen Sub-Saharan African countries

    Martha Ainsworth;Kathleen Beegle;Andrew Nyamete

  • Education in a crisis

    Duncan Thomas;Kathleen Beegle;Elizabeth Frankenberg;Bondan Sikoki

  • The real costs of Indonesias economic crisis: preliminary findings from the Indonesia Family Life Surveys.

    Elizabeth Frankenberg;Duncan Thomas;Kathleen Beegle

  • The Impact of Adult Mortality and Parental Deaths on Primary Schooling in North-Western Tanzania

    Martha Ainsworth;Kathleen Beegle;Godlike Koda

  • World development report 2013 : jobs

    Kathleen G. Beegle;Jesko S. Hentschel;Martin G. Rama

  • Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS

    Kathleen Beegle;Joachim De Weerdt;Stefan Dercon

  • Reliability of recall in agricultural data

    Kathleen Beegle;Calogero Carletto;Kristen Himelein

  • The state of the poor : where are the poor, where is extreme poverty harder to end, and what is the current profile of the world's poor?

    Kathleen G. Beegle;Pedro Olinto;Carlos E. Sobrado;Hiroki Uematsu

  • Why Should We Care about Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

    Rajeev H. Dehejia;Kathleen Beegle;Roberta Gatti

  • The effect of school type on academic achievement : evidence from Indonesia

    David Newhouse;Kathleen Beegle

  • Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa

    Kathleen G. Beegle;Luc Christiaensen

  • A Database on Poverty and Growth in India

    Berk Özler;Gaurav Datt;Martin Ravallion;Kathleen Beegle

  • Do labor statistics depend on how and to whom the questions are asked? : results from a survey experiment in Tanzania

    Elena Bardasi;Kathleen Beegle;Andrew Dillon;Pieter Serneels

  • Labor effects of adult mortality in Tanzanian households

    Kathleen Beegle

  • Orphanhood and the long-run impact on children

    Kathleen Beegle;Joachim De Weerdt;Stefan Dercon

  • Realizing the Full Potential of Social Safety Nets in Africa

    Kathleen Beegle;Aline Coudouel;Emma Monsalve

Frequent Co-Authors

John Gibson
John Gibson University of Waikato
Stefan Dercon
Stefan Dercon University of Oxford
Rajeev H. Dehejia
Rajeev H. Dehejia New York University
Elizabeth Frankenberg
Elizabeth Frankenberg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Duncan Thomas
Duncan Thomas Duke University
Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion Georgetown University
Deon Filmer
Deon Filmer World Bank
James P. Smith
James P. Smith Princeton University

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