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Antonella Bancalari is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews. She is also a Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). She has completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has also served as Consultant for the Government of Peru. Her research lies at the intersection of development, health, and public economics. She investigates the principles underlying effective public goods delivery and its impact on early-life mortality and health. More details about her research can be found on her personal website.
Posts by Antonella Bancalari
Incentivising quality of public infrastructure: Does it work?
Community toilets in slums are often poorly maintained, and upgrading facilities is difficult due to low willingness-to-pay among potential users and ‘free riding’. Based on an experiment in Uttar...
- Alex Armand Britta Augsburg Antonella Bancalari
- 08 October, 2021
- Articles
Covid-19: Debunking fake news among slum-dwellers
Urban slum-dwellers are among the groups that are most at-risk of Covid-19, and their precarious situation is further compounded by rampant misinformation regarding the Virus. Based on a survey of abo...
- Alex Armand Britta Augsburg Antonella Bancalari
- 21 January, 2021
- Articles
Covid-19: Willingness to vaccinate among slum-dwellers
Vaccination is among the success stories in modern-day medicine, and is seen by the WHO as a key element of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this note, Augsburg et al. discuss findings from a...
- Alex Armand Britta Augsburg Antonella Bancalari
- 05 August, 2020
- Notes from the Field