All Outputs (6)

Secure communities as immigration enforcement: How secure is the child care market? (2024)
Journal Article
Ali, U., Brown, J. H., & Herbst, C. M. (2024). Secure communities as immigration enforcement: How secure is the child care market?. Journal of Public Economics, 233, Article 105101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105101

Immigrants comprise nearly 20% of the child care workforce in the U.S. This paper studies the impact of a major immigration enforcement policy, Secure Communities (SC), on the structure and functioning of the child care market. Relying on the stagger... Read More about Secure communities as immigration enforcement: How secure is the child care market?.

Efficacy of Technology-Aided Monitoring for Early Childhood Vaccination Coverage: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Ali, U., & Khalid, S. Efficacy of Technology-Aided Monitoring for Early Childhood Vaccination Coverage: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

The implementation of the Electronic Vaccine Registration System (E-VACCS) in Punjab, Pakistan, during late 2014 aimed to enhance early childhood vaccination rates. Utilizing data from 2010-2019, this study employs a difference-in-differences framewo... Read More about Efficacy of Technology-Aided Monitoring for Early Childhood Vaccination Coverage: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.

Minimum quality regulations and the demand for childcare labor (2024)
Journal Article
Ali, U., Herbst, C. M., & Makridis, C. A. (2024). Minimum quality regulations and the demand for childcare labor. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 43(3), 660-695. https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22568

Minimum quality regulations are often justified in the childcare market because of the presence of information frictions between parents and providers. However, regulations can also have unintended consequences for the quantity and quality of service... Read More about Minimum quality regulations and the demand for childcare labor.

The impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. child care market: Evidence from stay-at-home orders (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, U., Herbst, C. M., & Makridis, C. A. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. child care market: Evidence from stay-at-home orders. Economics of Education Review, 82, Article 102094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102094

Stay-at-home orders (SAHOs) were implemented in most U.S. states to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This paper quantifies the impact of these containment policies on a measure of the supply of child care. The supply of such services may be particula... Read More about The impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. child care market: Evidence from stay-at-home orders.

Iterative Design of an Immunization Information System in Pakistan (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Razaq, S., Batool, A., Ali, U., Khalid, M. S., Saif, U., & Naseem, M. (2016, November). Iterative Design of an Immunization Information System in Pakistan. Presented at ACM DEV '16: Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, Nairobi, Kenya

Routine early age child immunization is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions. The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools such as Immunization Information Systems (IIS) to improve efficiency of vaccination pr... Read More about Iterative Design of an Immunization Information System in Pakistan.

Child Immunization Health Card Redesign: an Iterative, User-Centered Approach (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Batool, A., Ali, U., Razaq, S., & Naseem, M. (2016, June). Child Immunization Health Card Redesign: an Iterative, User-Centered Approach. Poster presented at ICTD '16: Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Ann Arbor Michigan

This paper highlights some of the challenges associated with the current paper-based immunization health card being used in the Punjab province of Pakistan, and further discusses an iterative approach to redesign this card to be more informative for... Read More about Child Immunization Health Card Redesign: an Iterative, User-Centered Approach.