Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

2025

Sourabh Balgi, Adel Daoud, Jose M Pena, Geoffrey T Wodtke, Jesse Zhou, “Deep Learning with DAGs,” Sociological Methods and Research (accepted)

2024

Kakooei, Mohammad, Adel Daoud, “Increasing the confidence of predictive uncertainty: earth observations and deep learning for poverty estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3392605

Daoud, Adel, and Fredrik Johansson, “The Impact of Austerity on Children Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries,” Social Science Research

2023

Daoud, Adel, Felipe Jordan, Makkunda Sharma, Fredrik Johansson, Devdatt Dubhashi, Sourabh Paul, Subhashis Banerjee, “Using satellite images and deep learning to measure health and living standards in India,” Social Indicators Research, Vol 167, Issue 1 Pages 475-505, 10.1007/s11205-023-03112-x

Daoud, Adel, and Devdatt Dubhashi, “Statistical Modeling: The Three Cultures,” Harvard Data Science Review, Vol 5, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.89f6fe66

Koichiro Shiba, Adel Daoud, H Hikichi, A Yazawa, J Aida, K Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi, “Uncovering heterogeneous associations between disaster-related trauma and subsequent functional limitations: a machine-learning approach,” American J of Epidemiology, volume 192, Issue 2, February 2023, Pages 217-229, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwac187

2022

Koichiro Shiba, Hiroyuki Hikichi; Sakurako S. Okuzono; Tyler J. VanderWeele, Mariana Arcaya; Adel Daoud, Richard G. Cowden; Aki Yazawab; David T. Zhu; Jun Aida; Katsunori Kondol; Ichiro Kawachi, “Long-term Associations Between Disaster-related Home Loss and Health and Wellbeing of Older Survivors: Nine Years After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami,” Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 130, No. 7, https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP10903

Daoud, Adel, Anders Herlitz, and S V Subramanian, “IMF fairness: Calibrating the policies of the International Monetary Fund based on distributive justice,” World Development, Volume 157, September 2022, doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105924

Koichiro Shiba, Adel Daoud, Shiho Kino, Daisuke Nishi, Katsunori Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi, “Uncovering Heterogeneous Associations of Disaster-related Traumatic Experiences with Subsequent Mental Health Problems: a Machine Learning Approach,” Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Volume76, Issue 4, Pages 97-105 https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13322

2021

Koichiro Shiba, Adel Daoud, Hiroyuki Hikichi, Aki Yazawa, Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi, “Heterogeneity in cognitive decline after a major disaster: a natural experiment study,” Science Advances, Vol 7, Issue 40, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abj2610

Kino, Shiho, Yu-Tien, Koichiro Shiba, Ichiro Kawachi, and Adel Daoud, “A scoping review on the use of machine learning in the research on the social determinants of health: trends and research prospects,” Social Science & Medicine - Population Health, Volume 15, doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100836

Koichiro Shibaa, Jacqueline M. Torresc, Adel Daoud, Kosuke Inoue; Satoru Kanamori; Taishi Tsuji; Masamitsu Kamada, Katsunori Kondo, and Ichiro Kawachi, “Estimating the impact of sustained social participation on depressive symptoms in older adults,” Epidemiology, Volume 32, Number 6, 30 July 2021, pp. 886-895(10), https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001395

Koumakhov, Rouslan and Daoud, Adel, “Decisions and Structures: Dialogue between Herbert Simon and Critical Realists,” British Journal of Management, Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 1404-1420 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12439

2019

Daoud, Adel, Rockli Kim, and S V Subramanian, “Evaluating the predictive power of socioeconomic factors in capturing women’s height in 58 low- and middle-income countries: a machine learning approach,” Social Science & Medicine, 238 (2019) 112486

Daoud, Adel and Nandy, Shailen, “Implications of the politics of caste and class on child poverty in India,” Sociology of Development, Vol. 5, Number 4, pp 428-451, DOI: doi.org/10.1525/sod.2019.5.4.428

Daoud, Adel, Bernhard Reinsberg, Alexander Kentikelenis, Thomas Stubbs, Lawrence King. “The International Monetary Fund’s Interventions in Food and Agriculture: An Analysis of Loans and Conditions,” Food Policy, Vol 83, pp 204-218. doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.01.005

Kraamwinkel, N., Ekbrand, H., Davia, S., Daoud, A., “The influence of maternal agency on child well-being in conflict-ridden Nigeria: modelling heterogeneous treatment effects with machine learning,” PLoS ONE: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208937

2018

Daoud, Adel, and Bernhard Reinsberg, “Structural adjustment, state capacity, and child health: Evidence from IMF programs,” International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 445-454

Coutts, Adam, Adel Daoud, Ali Fakih, Walid Marrouch, and Bernhard Reinsberg, “Guns and Butter? Military Expenditure and Health Spending on the Eve of the Arab Spring,” Defence and Peace Economics, doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2018.1497372

Conklin, Annalijn, Adel Daoud, Riti Shimkhada, and Ninez Ponce, “The impact of rising food prices on obesity in women: A longitudinal analysis of 31 low- and middle-income countries from 2000-2014,” International Journal of Obesity, doi.org/10.1038/s41366-018-0178-y

Daoud, Adel, “Unifying studies of Scarcity, Abundance, and Sufficiency,” Ecological Economics, Vol 147, Issue: May, pp. 208 - 217. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.01.019

2017

Ponce, Ninez, Riti Shimkhada, Amy Raub, Adel Daoud, Arijit Nandi, Linda Richter, Jody Heymann, “The association of minimum wage change on child nutritional status in LMICs: A quasi-experimental multi-country study,” Global Public Health, August. Doi: 10.1080/17441692.2017.1359327

Daoud, Adel, Elias Nosrati, Bernhard Reinsberg, Alexander Kentikelenis, Thomas Stubbs, and Lawrence King., “Impact of International Monetary Fund programs on child health,” Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1617353114

Daoud, Adel, “A Framework for Synthesizing the Malthusian and Senian approaches: exemplified by the 1943 Bengal Famine,” Cambridge J of Economics, Vol 42, Issue 2, pp. 453-476, Doi: 10.1093/cje/bew071

Koumakhov, Rouslan and Adel Daoud, “Routine and reflexivity: Simonian cognitivism vs practice approach,” Industrial & Corporate Change, 26 (4): pp. 727-743

2016

Daoud, Adel, Bjorn Hallerod, and Deberati Guha Sapir, “What is the association between absolute child poverty, poor governance, and natural disasters? A global comparison of some of the realities of climate change,” PLoS ONE, 11(4), e0153296

Nandy, Shailen, Adel Daoud, David Gordon, “Examining the changing profile of undernutrition in the context of food price rises and greater inequality,” Social Science & Medicine, 149 (January), pp. 153-163

2015

Daoud, Adel, “Quality of Governance, Corruption, and Absolute Child Poverty in India,” Journal of South Asian Development, 10(2), pp. 1-20

2013

Hallerod, Bjorn Bo Rothstein; Adel Daoud; Shailen Nandy, “Bad Governance and Poor Children: A Comparative analysis of government efficiency and severe child deprivation in 68 low- and middle-income countries,” World Development, 48 (August), pp.19-31

2012

Soderberg, Johan and Adel Daoud, “Atoms want to be free too! - expanding the critique of intellectual property to physical goods,” in Critical Theory and Political Economy of the Internet @ Nordmedia 2011, Christian Fuchs and Goran Bolin (eds). Online at Cognition, Communication, Co-operation, 10(1), pp. 66-76

2011

Daoud, Adel and Goran Puaca., “An organic view of want formation: pragmatic rationality, habitus and reflexivity,” British Journal of Sociology of Education, 32 (4), pp. 603-622

Daoud, Adel and Bengt Larsson. “Economic Sociology - Old and New,” International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2(3), pp. 255-269

Puaca, Goran and Adel Daoud, “Vilja och framtid i fragor kring utbildningsval,” Pedagogisk Forskning, 16(2), 100-117

Daoud, Adel, “The Modus Vivendi of Material Simplicity: Counteracting Scarcity via the Deflation of Wants,” Review of Social Economy, 69(3), pp. 275-305

2010

Daoud, Adel, “Robbins and Malthus on Scarcity, Abundance, and Sufficiency: The Missing Sociocultural Element,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 69(4), pp. 1206-1229

2007

Daoud, Adel. “(Quasi)Scarcity and Global Hunger: A Sociological Critique of the Scarcity Postulate with an Effort to Synthesis,” Journal of Critical Realism, 6 (2), pp. 199-225

Computer Science Peer-Reviewed Conferences

2025

Zhu, Warren, Connor Jerzak, and Adel Daoud, “Learning to Encode Multi-level Dynamics in Effect Heterogeneity Estimation,” Fourth Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR)

2024

Zhu, Warren, Connor Jerzak, and Adel Daoud, “Learning to Encode Multi-level Dynamics in Effect Heterogeneity Estimation,” Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Workshop on Causal Representation Learning

Balgi, Sourabh, Jose Pena, and Adel Daoud, “rho-GNF: A Copula-based Sensitivity Analysis to Unobserved Confounding Using Normalizing Flows,” Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 246:1-18, 2024, Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM)

Balgi, Sourabh, Jose Pena, and Adel Daoud, “Counterfactually-Equivalent Structural Causal Modelling Using Causal Graphical Normalizing Flows,” Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 246:1-18, 2024 Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM)

Nicolas Audinet de Pieuchon, Adel Daoud, Connor Thomas Jerzak, Moa Johansson, Richard Johansson, “Can Large Language Models (or Humans) Distill Text?”, Sixth Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science at North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)

2023

Petterson, Markus, Mohammad Kakooei, Julia Ortheden, Fredrik Johansson, Adel Daoud, “Time series of satellite imagery improve deep learning estimates of neighborhood-level poverty in Africa,” On AI and Social Good at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

Connor Jerzak, Fredrik Johansson, Daoud, Adel, “Image-based Treatment Effect Heterogeneity,” Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR), the Journal of Machine Learning Research Workshop and Conference Proceedings

2022

Daoud, Adel, Connor Jerzak, and Richard Johansson, “Conceptualizing Treatment Leakage in Text-based Causal Inference,” North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)

Balgi, Sourabh, Adel Daoud, and Jose Pena, “Personalized Public Policy Analysis In Social Sciences Using Causal-Graphical Normalizing Flows,” AI for Social Impact Track in Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)

2019

Joakim Akerstrom, Adel Daoud, and Richard Johansson, “Natural Language Processing in Policy Evaluation: Extracting Policy Conditions from IMF Loan Agreements,” Published in the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa’19)