Clark Gray, Valerie Mueller
The consequences of environmental change for human migration have gained increasing attention in the context of climate change and recent large-scale natural disasters, but as yet relatively few large-scale and quantitative studies have addressed this issue. We investigate the consequences of climat...
Joyce Chen, Valerie Mueller
Warish Ahmed, Stuart L. Simpson, Paul M. Bertsch, Kyle Bibby et al.
Wastewater surveillance for pathogens using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is an effective and resource-efficient tool for gathering community-level public health information, including the incidence of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). Surveillance of Severe Acute Respira...
Andrew Reid Bell, David Wrathall, Valerie Mueller, Joyce Chen et al.
To date, projections of human migration induced by sea-level change (SLC) largely suggest large-scale displacement away from vulnerable coastlines. However, results from our model of Bangladesh suggest counterintuitively that people will continue to migrate toward the vulnerable coastline irrespecti...
Valerie Mueller, Agnes Quisumbing
Abstract Natural disasters devastate economies as they impede capital accumulation. The resilience of labour markets is crucial for the poor who rely on labour to reduce risk. We evaluate how the 1998 ‘flood of the century’ affected wages in Bangladesh. We find short-term declines in agricultural an...
Valerie Mueller, Karen A. Grépin, Atonu Rabbani, Bianca Navia et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted social distancing, workplace closures, and restrictions on mobility and trade that had cascading effects on economic activity, food prices, and employment in low- and middle-income countries. Using longitudinal data from Bangladesh, Kenya, and Nigeria covering a period...
Manuela De Allegri, Isabelle Agier, Justin Tiendrébeogo, Valérie R. Louis et al.
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to explore factors shaping the decision to undergo Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing among men in rural Burkina Faso. METHODS: The study took place in 2009 in the Nouna Health District and adopted a triangulation mixed methods design. The quantitative component ...
Warish Ahmed, Stuart L. Simpson, Paul M. Bertsch, Kyle Bibby et al.
Wastewater surveillance for pathogens using the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is an effective, resource-efficient tool for gathering additional community-level public health information, including the incidence and/or prevalence and trends of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-...
Valerie Mueller, Agnes Quisumbing
Natural disasters have particularly devastating impacts on economic growth in developing countries because they impede the accumulation of capital. The resilience of labor markets is crucial especially for the poor who rely only on labor to diversify their income portfolio and buffer against risk. S...
Xiaobo Zhang, Shahidur Rashid, Kaikaus Ahmad, Valerie Mueller et al.
Xiaobo Zhang, Shahidur Rashid, Kaikaus Ahmad, Valerie Mueller et al.
Using data from multiple sources, we show that in Bangladesh, the increase in real wages, particularly female wages, has accelerated since the late 2000s, suggesting that the Lewis turning point (the point at which the labor market starts to shift in favor of workers) has arrived in Bangladesh. Risi...
Valerie Mueller, Karen A. Grépin, Atonu Rabbani, Anne Ngũnjiri et al.
This article analyzes two longitudinal datasets (October – December 2020; April 2021) of 1,000 and 900 women in Kenya and Nigeria, respectively, alongside in-depth qualitative interviews with women at risk of changes to time use, to study two pandemic issues: women’s substitution of paid for unpaid ...
Joyce Chen, Valerie Mueller, Fabien Durand, Erika Lisco et al.
Anthropogenic environmental changes are having complex effects on all aspects of the hydrological cycle. In estuarine areas, these factors are coalescing to increase saline contamination. Between 2006 and 2007, coastal Bangladesh experienced a sudden and dramatic increase in water salinity, with the...
Karen A. Grépin, Valerie Mueller, Nicole Wu, Atonu Rabbani
High levels of compliance with public health measures are critical to ensure a successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies. However, most data on compliance are self-reported and the tendency to overreport due to social desirability could yield biased estimates o...
Joyce Chen, Valerie Mueller, Brian C. Thiede, Chen, Joyce et al.
Projections of sea-level rise and coastal flooding place Bangladesh as one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change by the end of this century. These changes are expected to have widespread consequences, including for population dynamics. We build upon a growing economic demography literat...