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Working Papers

2019

1. The Calculation of Spatial Prices in the Absence of Unit Values: Alternative Methodologies with Empirical Evidence from India
   Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics

2016

2. Global and Country Poverty Rates, Welfare Rankings of the Regions and Purchasing Power Parities: How Robust Are the Results?
   Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2015

3. Estimates of Spatial Prices in India and their Sensitivity to Alternative Estimation Methods and Choice of Items
   Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
4. Preferences, purchasing power parity, and inequality: analytical framework, propositions, and empirical evidence
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)

2014

5. A Unified Framework for the Estimation of Intra and Inter Country Food Purchasing Power Parities with Application to Cross Country Comparisons of Food Expenditure: India, Indonesia and Vietnam
   Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2013

6. The Estimation of Item Specific Intra and Inter Country Food Purchasing Power Parities with Application to Cross Country Comparisons of Food Expenditure: India, Indonesia and Vietnam
   Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics

2012

7. Preferences, Spatial Prices and Inequality
   Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Preferences, Spatial Prices and Inequality, Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals (2015) View citations (5) (2015)
8. Spatial Comparisons of Prices and Expenditure in a Heterogeneous Country: Methodology with Application to India
   Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (7)
   See also Journal Article SPATIAL COMPARISONS OF PRICES AND EXPENDITURE IN A HETEROGENEOUS COUNTRY: METHODOLOGY WITH APPLICATION TO INDIA, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Cambridge University Press (2015) View citations (7) (2015)

2011

9. Estimating Intra Country and Cross Country Purchasing Power Parities from Household Expenditure Data Using Single Equation and Complete Demand Systems Approach: India and Vietnam
   Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (4)
10. The Calculation of Rural Urban Food Price Differentials from Unit Values in Household Expenditure Surveys: A new procedure and comparison with existing methods
    Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (5)

2007

11. A Treatment of Absolute Indices of Polarization
    Staff General Research Papers Archive, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations (18)
    See also Journal Article A TREATMENT OF ABSOLUTE INDICES OF POLARIZATION*, The Japanese Economic Review, Japanese Economic Association (2007) View citations (20) (2007)

2005

12. Intersociety Literacy Comparisons
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

2004

13. Derivation of Nutrient Prices from Household level Food Expenditure Data: Methodology and Applications
    Econometric Society 2004 Australasian Meetings, Econometric Society View citations (1)

2001

14. On a Method of Calculating Regional Price Differentials with Illustrative Evidence from India
    ASARC Working Papers, The Australian National University, Australia South Asia Research Centre View citations (4)
    Also in Working Papers, Tasmania - Department of Economics (2001) View citations (2)

Journal Articles

2023

1. Estimation of sharing rule: an application of intra-household collective model on Indian data
   Indian Growth and Development Review, 2023, 16, (1), 74-90

2022

2. Optimal commodity taxation – a new computational procedure with application to India
   Indian Growth and Development Review, 2022, 15, (1), 123-138

2021

3. Should commodity tax rates be uniform across regions in a heterogeneous country? Evidence from India
   Journal of Policy Modeling, 2021, 43, (6), 1310-1331 View citations (1)

2020

4. Dropout Behaviour of Children: The Case of West Bengal
   Indian Journal of Human Development, 2020, 14, (2), 275-289 View citations (1)
5. National and subnational purchasing power parity: a review
   DECISION: Official Journal of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, 2020, 47, (2), 103-124 View citations (7)
6. The spatial price map of India drawn using pseudo unit values
   Indian Growth and Development Review, 2020, 13, (3), 537-560 View citations (1)

2018

7. A Framework for the Simultaneous Measurement of Spatial Variation and Temporal Movement in Prices in a Heterogeneous Country: The Dynamic Household Regional Product Dummy Model
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64, (3), 703-730 View citations (3)
8. Sensitivity of global and regional poverty rates to alternative purchasing power parities
   Indian Growth and Development Review, 2018, 11, (1), 34-56

2017

9. Estimates of Spatial Prices in India and Their Sensitivity to Alternative Estimation Methods and Choice of Commodities
   Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2017, 131, (1), 145-167 View citations (8)
10. Gender Bias in Education in West Bengal
    Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2017, 15, (1), 173-196 View citations (2)
11. Sensitivity of Purchasing Power Parity Estimates to Estimation Procedures and their Effect on Living Standards Comparisons
    Journal of Globalization and Development, 2017, 8, (1), 25 View citations (3)

2016

12. A unified framework for the estimation of intra and inter country food purchasing power parities
    Indian Growth and Development Review, 2016, 9, (1), 2-31 View citations (3)
13. Gender bias in household education expenditure: the case of West Bengal
    Indian Growth and Development Review, 2016, 9, (2), 129-150 View citations (1)

2015

14. Estimating Purchasing Power Parities from Household Expenditure Data Using Complete Demand Systems with Application to Living Standards Comparison: India and Vietnam
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2015, 61, (2), 302-328 View citations (20)
15. Household budget-share distributions and welfare implications: an application of multivariate distributional statistics
    Journal of Applied Statistics, 2015, 42, (12), 2754-2768
16. Preferences, Spatial Prices and Inequality
    Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51, (11), 1488-1501 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Preferences, Spatial Prices and Inequality, Monash Economics Working Papers (2012) View citations (2) (2012)
17. SPATIAL COMPARISONS OF PRICES AND EXPENDITURE IN A HETEROGENEOUS COUNTRY: METHODOLOGY WITH APPLICATION TO INDIA
    Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015, 19, (5), 931-989 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper Spatial Comparisons of Prices and Expenditure in a Heterogeneous Country: Methodology with Application to India, Monash Economics Working Papers (2012) View citations (7) (2012)

2014

18. Decomposition of inter-regional poverty gap in India: a spatial approach
    Empirical Economics, 2014, 46, (1), 65-99

2013

19. Temporal comparisons of prices, expenditure and growth in India: a state-wise analysis
    Indian Growth and Development Review, 2013, 6, (2), 195-211

2012

20. Calculating Rural-Urban Food Price Differentials from Unit Values in Household Expenditure Surveys: A Comparison with Existing Methods and A New Procedure
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2012, 94, (5), 1218-1235 View citations (37)

2011

21. District-level poverty estimation: a proposed method
    Journal of Applied Statistics, 2011, 38, (10), 2327-2343 View citations (2)
22. ESTIMATING SPATIAL CONSUMER PRICE INDICES THROUGH ENGEL CURVE ANALYSIS
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57, (1), 138-155 View citations (29)

2009

23. A characterization of the composite price variable to approximate a price aggregator function in the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System
    Economics Bulletin, 2009, 29, (3), 2050-2054
24. DEMAND THRESHOLD, ZERO EXPENDITURE AND HIERARCHICAL MODEL OF CONSUMER DEMAND
    Metroeconomica, 2009, 60, (1), 91-118 View citations (1)

2008

25. Millennium Development Goals: Measuring Progress towards their Achievement
    Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2008, 9, (1), 109-129 View citations (3)

2007

26. A TREATMENT OF ABSOLUTE INDICES OF POLARIZATION*
    The Japanese Economic Review, 2007, 58, (2), 273-293 View citations (20)
    See also Working Paper A Treatment of Absolute Indices of Polarization, Staff General Research Papers Archive (2007) View citations (18) (2007)

2006

27. Impact of Unequal Sharing of Household Resources on Poverty measurement: A Study of Four Indian States
    Indian Economic Review, 2006, 41, (2), 113-127

2005

28. Measuring Human Poverty: A Generalized Index and an Application Using Basic Dimensions of Life and Some Anthropometric Indicators
    Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2005, 6, (3), 275-299 View citations (13)

2004

29. A Method of Calculating Regional Consumer Price Differentials with Illustrative Evidence from India
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2004, 50, (1), 51-68 View citations (31)

2003

30. Relative cost of children: the case of rural Maharashtra, India
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 2003, 25, (1), 61-76

2001

31. Inequality, Polarisation and Welfare: Theory and Applications
    Australian Economic Papers, 2001, 40, (1), 1-13 View citations (64)

1996

32. Achievement and improvement in living standards
    Journal of Development Economics, 1996, 50, (1), 189-195 View citations (11)
33. Achievement and improvement in living standards—An empirical analysis
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1996, 37, (3), 269-280 View citations (7)

1995

34. Patterns of inter- and intra-regional inequality: A socio-economic approach
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1995, 34, (3), 325-338 View citations (6)

1992

35. Measuring Income Responses: A Log-Quadratic Demand Model for Consumers in India
    Empirical Economics, 1992, 17, (2), 315-21

1990

36. Distribution of Personal Income: Development of a New Model and Its Application to U.S. Income Data
    Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1990, 5, (2), 189-96 View citations (40)

1988

37. A note on optimal commodity taxation in India
    Economics Letters, 1988, 27, (2), 167-171 View citations (7)

1987

38. A System of Demand Equations Based on Price Independent Generalized Linearity
    International Economic Review, 1987, 28, (1), 213-28 View citations (3)
39. Use of Pooled Data- An Empirical Note on Demand Analysis
    Indian Economic Review, 1987, 22, (1), 79-93