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Working Papers

2008

1. Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics (2007) View citations

1997

2. Population Growth, Technical Change, and Forest Degradation
   Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania
3. Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth
   Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1999)

1996

4. Financial Intermediation, Transfers and Commitment: Do Banks Crowd Out Private Insurance Arrangements in Low-Income Rural Areas?
   Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania
   Also in Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania (1996)
   Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania (1996) View citations
5. Household Division, Inequality and Rural Economic Growth
   Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations
6. The Dynamics of Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Family Planning Experiment"
   Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations

1995

7. Analysis of Household Behavior when Households Choose Their Members: Marriage-Market Selection and Human Capital Allocations in Rural Bangladesh
   Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations
8. Imperfect Commitment, Altruism, and the Family: Evidence from Transfer Behavior in Low-Income Rural Areas
   Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations
   See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2001)

1994

9. Equilibrating the Marriage Market in a Rapidly Growing Population: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
   Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania
10. Program Effects and the Allocation of Resources within the Household
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania

1990

11. FERTILITY DECLINE IN AFRICA; ASSESSMENT AND PROSPECTS
    Working Papers, World Bank - Technical Papers

Undated

12. A Consistent Semiparametric Estimator of the Consumer Surplus Distribution
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania
    See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2000)
13. Comparative Advantage, Information and the Allocation of Workers to Tasks: Evidence from an Agricultural Labor Market
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (1996)
14. Dynamic Savings Decisions in Agricultural Environments with Incomplete Markets
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (1997)
15. Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1995)
16. Prices, Credit Constraints, and Child Growth in Low-Income Rural Areas
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations
17. Technical Change and Human Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1996)
18. The Dynamics of Agricultural Production and the Calorie-Income Relationship: Evidence from Pakistan
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (1997)

Journal Articles

2009

1. Voluntary Compliance, Pollution Levels, and Infant Mortality in Mexico
   American Economic Review, 2009, 99, (2), 191-97

2007

2. The social dimensions of microeconomic behavior in low-income communities: Introduction to a symposium
   Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 83, (2), 253-255

2004

3. Agricultural Productivity Growth, Rural Economic Diversity, and Economic Reforms: India, 1970-2000
   Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2004, 52, (3), 509-42 View citations
4. Technological change and the distribution of schooling: evidence from green-revolution India
   Journal of Development Economics, 2004, 74, (1), 87-111 View citations

2003

5. Economic Growth And The Rise Of Forests
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003, 118, (2), 601-637 View citations

2002

6. Household Division and Rural Economic Growth
   Review of Economic Studies, 2002, 69, (4), 839-69 View citations

2001

7. Imperfect Commitment, Altruism, And The Family: Evidence From Transfer Behavior In Low-Income Rural Areas
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001, 83, (3), 389-407 View citations
   See also Working Paper (1995)

2000

8. A consistent semiparametric estimation of the consumer surplus distribution
   Economics Letters, 2000, 69, (3), 245-251
   See also Working Paper

1999

9. Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth
   Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 107, (4), 682-714 View citations
   See also Working Paper (1997)

1997

10. Dynamic Savings Decisions in Agricultural Environments with Incomplete Markets
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1997, 15, (2), 282-92 View citations
    See also Working Paper
11. The dynamics of agricultural production and the calorie-income relationship: Evidence from Pakistan
    Journal of Econometrics, 1997, 77, (1), 187-207 View citations
    See also Working Paper

1996

12. Comparative Advantage, Information and the Allocation of Workers to Tasks: Evidence from an Agricultural Labour Market
    Review of Economic Studies, 1996, 63, (3), 347-74 View citations
    See also Working Paper
13. Huber correction for two-stage least squares estimates
    Stata Technical Bulletin, 1996, 5, (29) View citations
14. Population, economic development and the environment: K. Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg, ed., (Oxford University Press, New York, 1994), pp. xxii + 284, $29.95
    Journal of Development Economics, 1996, 49, (2), 394-399
15. Technical Change and Human-Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution
    American Economic Review, 1996, 86, (4), 931-53 View citations
    See also Working Paper

1995

16. Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture
    Journal of Political Economy, 1995, 103, (6), 1176-1209 View citations
    See also Working Paper
17. Nutrition and Health Investment
    American Economic Review, 1995, 85, (2), 148-52 View citations
18. Prices, Credit Markets and Child Growth in Low-Income Rural Areas
    Economic Journal, 1995, 105, (430), 551-70 View citations

1994

19. A Test for Moral Hazard in the Labor Market: Contractual Arrangements, Effort, and Health
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1994, 76, (2), 213-27 View citations
20. Poverty and Illness in Low-Income Rural Areas
    American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 216-20 View citations

Chapters

2008

1. Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment
   Elsevier View citations