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Working Papers

2022

1. Child Growth and Refugee Status: Evidence from Syrian Migrants in Turkey
   RF Berlin - CReAM Discussion Paper Series, Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin) - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) View citations (3)
2. Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2020

3. Income Segregation: Up or Down, and for Whom?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)

2019

4. The Democracy Effect: a Weights-Based Identification Strategy
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (18)

2017

5. Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size
   Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University View citations (60)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2017) View citations (59)
6. Start What You Finish! Ex Ante Risk and Schooling Investments in the Presence of Dynamic Complementarities
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
7. The Uptick in Income Segregation: Real Trend or Random Sampling Variance
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2015

8. Household Recombination, Retrospective Evaluation, and the Effects of a Health and Family Planning Intervention
   Working Papers, eSocialSciences

2011

9. Creating Good Employment Opportunities for the Rural Sector
   ADB Economics Working Paper Series, Asian Development Bank View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Creating Good Employment Opportunities for the Rural Sector, Asian Development Review, Asian Development Bank (2012) View citations (2) (2012)

2010

10. Is There Surplus Labor in Rural India?
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University View citations (39)
    Also in Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2010) View citations (38)
    Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics (2010) View citations (39)
11. Microeconomics of Technology Adoption
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center View citations (367)
    Also in Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2010) View citations (342)
    Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics (2010) View citations (359)
    See also Journal Article Microeconomics of Technology Adoption, Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews (2010) View citations (364) (2010)

2008

12. Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
    Also in Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics (2007) View citations (15)
    See also Journal Article Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2010) View citations (272) (2010)

1997

13. Population Growth, Technical Change, and Forest Degradation
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania
14. Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (15)
    See also Journal Article Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (1999) View citations (86) (1999)

1996

15. Financial Intermediation, Transfers and Commitment: Do Banks Crowd Out Private Insurance Arrangements in Low-Income Rural Areas?
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (4)
    Also in Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania (1996) View citations (5)
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania (1996) View citations (2)
16. Household Division, Inequality and Rural Economic Growth
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (5)
17. The Dynamics of Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Family Planning Experiment"
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (15)

1995

18. 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 (3)
19. Imperfect Commitment, Altruism, and the Family: Evidence from Transfer Behavior in Low-Income Rural Areas
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article Imperfect Commitment, Altruism, And The Family: Evidence From Transfer Behavior In Low-Income Rural Areas, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2001) View citations (248) (2001)

1994

20. Equilibrating the Marriage Market in a Rapidly Growing Population: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (2)
21. Program Effects and the Allocation of Resources within the Household
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (1)

1990

22. FERTILITY DECLINE IN AFRICA; ASSESSMENT AND PROSPECTS
    Working Papers, World Bank - Technical Papers View citations (7)

Undated

23. A Consistent Semiparametric Estimator of the Consumer Surplus Distribution
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania
    See also Journal Article A consistent semiparametric estimation of the consumer surplus distribution, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2000) View citations (8) (2000)
24. Comparative Advantage, Information and the Allocation of Workers to Tasks: Evidence from an Agricultural Labor Market
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (15)
25. Dynamic Savings Decisions in Agricultural Environments with Incomplete Markets
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Dynamic Savings Decisions in Agricultural Environments with Incomplete Markets, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, American Statistical Association (1997) View citations (16) (1997)
26. Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (43)
    See also Journal Article Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (1995) View citations (1160) (1995)
27. Prices, Credit Constraints, and Child Growth in Low-Income Rural Areas
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (2)
28. Technical Change and Human Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article Technical Change and Human-Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (1996) View citations (383) (1996)
29. The Dynamics of Agricultural Production and the Calorie-Income Relationship: Evidence from Pakistan
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article The dynamics of agricultural production and the calorie-income relationship: Evidence from Pakistan, Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier (1997) View citations (79) (1997)

Journal Articles

2015

1. Development Economics and Method: A Quarter Century of ABCDE
   The World Bank Economic Review, 2015, 29, (suppl_1), S2-S8 View citations (2)
2. Editors' Introduction
   The World Bank Economic Review, 2015, 29, (suppl_1), S1
3. Racial segregation and quality of care disparity in US nursing homes
   Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 39, (C), 1-16 View citations (5)
4. Research Opportunities in Emerging Markets: an Inter-disciplinary Perspective from Marketing, Economics, and Psychology
   Customer Needs and Solutions, 2015, 2, (4), 264-276 View citations (18)
5. Staffing subsidies and the quality of care in nursing homes
   Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 41, (C), 133-147 View citations (5)

2012

6. Creating Good Employment Opportunities for the Rural Sector
   Asian Development Review, 2012, 29, (1), 1-28 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Creating Good Employment Opportunities for the Rural Sector, ADB Economics Working Paper Series (2011) View citations (1) (2011)

2010

7. Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy
   American Economic Review, 2010, 100, (5), 2205-29 View citations (272)
   See also Working Paper Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy, NBER Working Papers (2008) View citations (5) (2008)
8. Microeconomics of Technology Adoption
   Annual Review of Economics, 2010, 2, (1), 395-424 View citations (364)
   See also Working Paper Microeconomics of Technology Adoption, Center Discussion Papers (2010) View citations (367) (2010)

2009

9. Voluntary Compliance, Pollution Levels, and Infant Mortality in Mexico
   American Economic Review, 2009, 99, (2), 191-97 View citations (48)

2007

10. Does Economic Growth Reduce Fertility? Rural India 1971-99
    India Policy Forum, 2007, 3, (1), 179-213 View citations (6)
11. The social dimensions of microeconomic behavior in low-income communities: Introduction to a symposium
    Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 83, (2), 253-255

2004

12. Agricultural Productivity Growth, Rural Economic Diversity, and Economic Reforms: India, 1970-2000
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2004, 52, (3), 509-42 View citations (108)
13. Technological change and the distribution of schooling: evidence from green-revolution India
    Journal of Development Economics, 2004, 74, (1), 87-111 View citations (42)

2001

14. 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 (248)
    See also Working Paper Imperfect Commitment, Altruism, and the Family: Evidence from Transfer Behavior in Low-Income Rural Areas, Home Pages (1995) View citations (13) (1995)
15. Receiving Help at Home
    The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2001, 56, (6), S374-S382 View citations (2)

2000

16. A consistent semiparametric estimation of the consumer surplus distribution
    Economics Letters, 2000, 69, (3), 245-251 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper A Consistent Semiparametric Estimator of the Consumer Surplus Distribution, Home Pages

1999

17. Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth
    Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 107, (4), 682-714 View citations (86)
    See also Working Paper Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth, Home Pages (1997) View citations (15) (1997)

1998

18. Reconstructing the size of the African American population by age and sex, 1930–1990
    Demography, 1998, 35, (1), 1-21 View citations (11)

1997

19. Dynamic Savings Decisions in Agricultural Environments with Incomplete Markets
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1997, 15, (2), 282-92 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper Dynamic Savings Decisions in Agricultural Environments with Incomplete Markets, Home Pages View citations (2)
20. The dynamics of agricultural production and the calorie-income relationship: Evidence from Pakistan
    Journal of Econometrics, 1997, 77, (1), 187-207 View citations (79)
    See also Working Paper The Dynamics of Agricultural Production and the Calorie-Income Relationship: Evidence from Pakistan, Home Pages View citations (5)

1996

21. Huber correction for two-stage least squares estimates
    Stata Technical Bulletin, 1996, 5, (29) View citations (12)
22. 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
23. Technical Change and Human-Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution
    American Economic Review, 1996, 86, (4), 931-53 View citations (383)
    See also Working Paper Technical Change and Human Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution, Home Pages View citations (6)

1995

24. 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 (1160)
    See also Working Paper Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture, Home Pages View citations (43)
25. Nutrition and Health Investment
    American Economic Review, 1995, 85, (2), 148-52 View citations (14)
26. Prices, Credit Markets and Child Growth in Low-Income Rural Areas
    Economic Journal, 1995, 105, (430), 551-70 View citations (126)

1994

27. 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 (98)
28. Poverty and Illness in Low-Income Rural Areas
    American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 216-20 View citations (18)

1992

29. Older widow mortality in rural Bangladesh
    Social Science & Medicine, 1992, 34, (1), 89-96 View citations (15)

1991

30. Are Cohort Mortality Rates Autocorrelated?
    Demography, 1991, 28, (4), 619-637

Chapters

2008

1. Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment
   Elsevier View citations (32)

Editor

1. Population Studies
   Taylor & Francis Journals