Eeshani Kandpal
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Eeshani Kandpal is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development. Her research informs development policy to improve maternal and child outcomes, focusing on the design and impacts of cash transfers to poor households, pay-for-performance contracts to improve health worker effort and maternal and child health care, and household-level determinants of investment in women's human capital. She previously served as a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. She holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA in Economics and Classics from Macalester College.
Recent work by Eeshani Kandpal
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Two decades on: The enduring costs of childhood abduction for women in Uganda
Twenty years after the Lord's Resistance Army conflict ended in northern Uganda, women who were abducted as children during the war and subsequently released show significantly higher rates of depression and perceived stress, reduced social support, ...
Published 12.05.26
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The price effects of cash transfer programmes: Insights from research
Cash transfer programmes are designed to reduce poverty and improve well-being, but do they also drive up local prices and harm those who don’t receive them?
Published 19.02.25
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Improving healthcare provisioning through decentralised financing: Evidence from Nigeria
Providing operating funds to public health facilities can be as effective as alternative pay-for-performance models, at half the cost
Published 06.12.21
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How cash transfers can have negative impact on non-beneficiaries: Evidence from Philippines
Cash transfers raised food prices and increased stunting among children from ineligible households in remote and poor areas
Published 28.05.21