Sebastian Linnemayr is an Associate Economist at RAND. He recently finished his position as postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. His dissertation evaluated a large-scale, randomized nutrition intervention as part of a World Bank project and investigated the impact of HIV on consumption behavior in South Africa. His current research focuses on the impact of HIV on fertility as well as on the role social interactions play in determining fertility. Linnemayr joined RAND in August 2009.
HIV Research
Factors Associated with Intention to Conceive and its Communication to Providers Among HIV Clients in Uganda (with Glenn Wagner, Cissy Kityo, and Peter Mugyenyi), Maternal and Child Health Journal (2012)
Persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) must discuss their fertility intentions with healthcare providers to receive...
Economic Status and Coping Mechanisms of Individuals Seeking HIV Care in Uganda (with Brooke Stearns Lawson, Peter Glick, and Glenn Wagner), Journal of African Economies (2011)
This study uses novel data to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the demographic and economic...
Consumption Smoothing and HIV/AIDS: The Case of Two Communities in South Africa, Economic Development and Cultural Change (2010)
HIV/AIDS threatens to overstretch the already frail informal safety nets in countries heavily affected by...
Nutrition Research
Almost random: Evaluating a large-scale randomized nutrition program in the presence of crossover (with Harold Alderman), Journal of Development Economics (2011)
Large-scale randomized interventions have the potential to uncover the causal effect of programs applying to...
Anemia in low-income countries is unlikely to be addressed by economic development without additional programs (with Harold Alderman), Food and Nutrition Bulletin (2009)
Although governments may decline to invest in iron fortification or supplementation influenced by the view...
Determinants of malnutrition in Senegal: Individual, household, community variables, and their interaction (with Harold Alderman and Abdoulaye Ka), Economics and Human Biology (2008)
The relationship between poverty and nutrition is a two-sided one: on the one hand, economic...
Effectiveness of a community-based intervention to improve nutrition in young children in Senegal: a difference in difference analysis (with Harold Alderman, Biram Ndiaye, Abdoulaye Ka, Claudia Rokx, Khadidiatou Dieng, and Menno Mulder-Sibanda), Public Health Nutrition (2008)
There are few studies of community growth promotion as a means of addressing malnutrition that...