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Working Papers

2021

1. Fleshing Out the Olive? On Income Polarization in China
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
2. Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
3. Macroeconomic Misery by Levels of Income in America
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
4. Missing Top Income Recipients
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
5. On the Gains from Tradeable Benefits-in-Kind
   Working Papers, Georgetown University, Department of Economics
6. On the Welfare Gains from Tradeable Benefits-in-Kind
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
7. Poverty in China since 1950: A Counterfactual Perspective
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
8. Reconciling the Conflicting Narratives on Poverty in China
   Working Papers, Georgetown University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020) View citations (2)

2020

9. Can the World’s Poor Protect Themselves from the New Coronavirus?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (25)
10. Inequality and the Coronavirus: Socioeconomic Covariates of Behavioral Responses and Viral Outcomes Across US Counties
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (26)
11. On the Origins of the Idea of Ending Poverty
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
12. SDG1: The Last Three Percent
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (1)
13. Scarred but Wiser: World War 2's COVID Legacy
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020) View citations (1)
14. Should the Randomistas (Continue to) Rule?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
    Also in Working Papers, Center for Global Development (2019) View citations (1)
15. Unpacking Household Engel Curves
    PSE Working Papers, HAL
    Also in Working Papers, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation) (2020)
    Working Papers, HAL (2020)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020)

2019

16. A Market for Work Permits
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
17. Ethnic Inequality and Poverty in Malaysia Since 1969
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
18. Food Stamps and America’s Poorest
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
19. Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
20. On Measuring Global Poverty
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Annual Review of Economics (2020)
21. The Missing Market for Work Permits
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2018

22. Global Inequality When Unequal Countries Create Unequal People
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2017)
    See also Journal Article in European Economic Review (2019)
23. Guaranteed Employment or Guaranteed Income?
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in World Development (2019)
24. Social Protection and Economic Development: Are the Poorest Being Lifted-Up or Left-Behind?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
25. What might explain today's conflicting narratives on global inequality?
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (1)

2017

26. Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence using Nutrition Data for Africa
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2017) View citations (8)
27. For India's rural poor, growing towns matter more than growing cities
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (30)
    See also Journal Article in World Development (2017)
28. Inequality and globalization: A review essay
    Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Literature (2018)
29. Welfare-Consistent Global Poverty Measures
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2017) View citations (8)

2016

30. A Poor Means Test? Econometric Targeting in Africa
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (14)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2016) View citations (27)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2018)
31. Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India
    Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (7)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2016) View citations (5)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016) View citations (5)
32. Social Frictions to Knowledge Diffusion: Evidence from an Information Intervention
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2015

33. Are the world’s poorest being left behind?
    Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality View citations (1)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Growth (2016)
34. Benefit Incidence with Incentive Effects, Measurement Errors and Latent Heterogeneity: A Case Study for China
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2015)
35. Inconsistent Policy Evaluation: A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)
36. Inequality when Effort Matters
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    Also in Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (2015)
37. Long-Term Gains from Electrification in Rural India
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (9)
    Also in PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2015) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2017)
38. The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints - Working Paper 400
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development
39. Toward Better Global Poverty Measures
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2016)
40. Toward Better Global Poverty Measures - Working Paper 417
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (4)

2014

41. An Exploration of the International Comparison Program's New Global Economic Landscape
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)
42. Intergenerational Mobility and Interpersonal Inequality in an African Economy
    Working Papers, HAL View citations (28)
    Also in PSE Working Papers, HAL (2014) View citations (28)
    PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2014) View citations (17)
    PSE - Labex "OSE-Ouvrir la Science Economique", HAL (2014) View citations (28)
    CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb), CEPREMAP (2014) View citations (31)
    Post-Print, HAL (2014) View citations (29)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2014)
43. The Luxembourg Income Study
    Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
    See also Journal Article in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2015)

2013

44. Benefit incidence with incentive effects, measurement errors and latent heterogeneity
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
45. Can subjective questions on economic welfare be trusted ? evidence for three developing countries
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
46. How long will it take to lift one billion people out of poverty ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (48)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Research Observer (2013)
47. Is workfare cost-effective against poverty in a poor labor-surplus economy?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2016)
48. Long-term impacts of household electrification in rural India
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (42)
49. Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
50. The Idea of Antipoverty Policy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
51. Trade insulation as social protection
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
    See also Chapter (2014)

2012

52. Benchmarking global poverty reduction
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
53. Can we trust shoestring evaluations ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2014)
54. Does India's employment guarantee scheme guarantee employment ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (46)
55. Evaluating workfare when the work is unpleasant: evidence for India's national rural employment guarantee scheme
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
56. More relatively-poor people in a less absolutely-poor world
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (2013)
57. Poor, or just feeling poor ? on using subjective data in measuring poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)

2011

58. Do Poorer Countries Have Less Capacity for Redistribution?
    One Pager Chinese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth View citations (1)
    Also in One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (2009) View citations (5)
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2009) View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Globalization and Development (2010)
59. Is It What You Inherited Or What You Learnt?: Intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2011) View citations (1)
60. Knowledgeable bankers ? the demand for research in World Bank operations
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Effectiveness (2013)
61. On multidimensional indices of poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (173)
    See also Journal Article in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2011)
62. On the implications of essential heterogeneity for estimating causal impacts using social experiments
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometric Methods (2015)
63. The two poverty enlightenments: historical insights from digitized books spanning three centuries
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)

2010

64. A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Human Development
    PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2007) View citations (2)
    Post-Print, HAL (2010)
    Research Unit Working Papers, Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA (2007) View citations (1)
65. Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2004) View citations (5)
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) (2005) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in World Development (2006)
66. Mashup indices of development
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (18)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Research Observer (2012)
67. On measuring scientific influence
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
68. Poverty lines across the world
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
69. Price levels and economic growth: making sense of the PPP changes between ICP rounds
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
70. Research for development a World Bank perspective on future directions for research
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
71. The World Bank's publication record
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
    See also Journal Article in The Review of International Organizations (2012)
72. Troubling tradeoffs in the Human Development Index
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2012)
73. Têm os Países mais Pobres menos Capacidade de Redistribuição?
    One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
74. ¿Los Países Más Pobres Tienen Menos Capacidad de Redistribución?
    One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth

2009

75. A Pobreza Global Reavaliada: Uma Réplica a Reddy
    One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
76. A comparative perspective on poverty reduction in Brazil, China and India
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Research Observer (2011)
77. Definindo o Crescimento Pró-Pobres: uma Resposta para Kakwani
    One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
78. Designing impact evaluations: different perspectives
    3ie Publications, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) View citations (3)
79. Définition de la croissance favorable aux pauvres: une Réponse Nanak Kakwani
    One Pager French, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
80. Frame-of-reference bias in subjective welfare regressions
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
81. Hacia una Definición de Crecimiento Económico Favorable a los Pobres: una Respuesta a Kakwani
    One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
82. Has India's economic growth become more pro-poor in the wake of economic reforms ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2011)
83. Nueva Evaluación de la Pobreza Mundial: una Respuesta a Reddy
    One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
84. The pattern of growth and poverty reduction in China
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Comparative Economics (2010)
85. Weakly relative poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2011)
86. Why don't we see poverty convergence ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2012)

2008

87. Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas ? Evidence from rural China
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
88. Are there lessons for africa from China's success against poverty ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in World Development (2009)
89. Bailing out the world's poorest
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article in Challenge (2009)
90. China is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (27)
91. Dollar a day revisited
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (32)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2009)
92. Evaluation in the practice of development
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article in World Bank Research Observer (2009)
93. Global Poverty Reassessed: A Reply to Reddy
    One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth View citations (1)
94. Global poverty and inequality: a review of the evidence
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (23)
95. On the welfarist rationale for relative poverty lines
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (11)
96. Qual Linha de Pobreza? Uma Resposta a Reddy
    One Pager Portuguese, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
97. Quel Seuil de Pauvreté? Une Réponse à Reddy
    One Pager French, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
98. The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (75)
    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2010)
99. Which Poverty Line? A Response to Reddy
    One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
100. ¿Cual Línea de Pobreza? Una Respuesta a Reddy
     One Pager Spanish, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth

2007

101. Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981-2004
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (41)
102. Economic growth and poverty reduction: Do poor countries need to worry about inequality?
     2020 vision briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (2)
103. Geographic inequity in a decentralized anti-poverty program: a case study of China
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
104. How relevant is targeting to the success of an antipoverty program ?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
105. New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (198)
     See also Journal Article in Population and Development Review (2007)
106. Poverty reduction without economic growth ? explaining Brazil's poverty dynamics, 1985-2004
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2010)
107. The changing profile of poverty in the world
     2020 vision briefs, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (3)

2006

108. Di Bao: a guaranteed minimum income in urban China?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
109. Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (12)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2008)
110. Partially awakened giants: uneven growth in China and India
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (19)

2005

111. A poverty-inequality trade-off?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (16)
     See also Journal Article in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2005)
112. An econometric method of correcting for unit nonresponse bias in surveys
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2007)
113. Evaluating anti-poverty programs
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (35)
     See also Chapter (2008)
114. Inequality is bad for the poor
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)
115. Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
116. Lasting local impacts of an economywide crisis
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
117. On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
118. Searching for the economic gradient in self-assessed health
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
119. Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (12)
     See also Journal Article in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2006)
120. Who cares about relative deprivation ?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (25)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2010)

2004

121. China's (uneven) progress against poverty
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (51)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2007)
122. Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (49)
123. Defining pro-poor growth: a response to Kakwani
     One Pager, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth View citations (6)
124. Gainers and losers from trade reform in Morocco
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (51)
125. How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (89)
     See also Journal Article in World Bank Research Observer (2004)
126. Pro-poor growth: A primer
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (67)

2003

127. A Model-Based Assessment of India's Progress in Reducing Poverty in the 1990s
     Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (6)
128. Externalities in Rural Development: Evidence for China
     WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (3)
     Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2002) View citations (6)
129. Hidden impact ? Ex-post evaluation of an anti-poverty program
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
130. Household welfare impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)
131. In measuring aggregate"social efficiency"
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
     See also Journal Article in Economic Development and Cultural Change (2005)
132. Land allocation in Vietnam's agrarian transition
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (16)
133. On the utility consistency of poverty lines
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (21)
134. Social protection in a crisis - Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (38)
     See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2004)
135. Survey compliance and the distribution of income
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (25)
136. Targeted transfers in poor countries: revisiting the trade-offs and policy options
     Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes, The World Bank View citations (21)
     Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2003) View citations (14)
137. The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality: why measurement matters
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (55)
     See also Journal Article in QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2004)

2002

138. Household Income Dynamics in Rural China
     WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (4)
     Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2001) View citations (28)
139. Is India's economic growth leaving the poor behind?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (74)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Perspectives (2002)
140. Rich and powerful? Subjective power and welfare in Russia
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2005)

2001

141. Assisting the transition from workfare to work: a randomized experiment
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (35)
     See also Journal Article in ILR Review (2004)
142. Breaking up the collective farm: welfare outcomes of Vietnam's massive land privatization
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (11)
143. Do workfare participants recover quickly from retrenchment?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
144. Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India ?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (32)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2003)
145. Growth, inequality, and poverty: looking beyond averages
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (396)
     See also Journal Article in World Development (2001)
146. Inequality convergence
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (11)
     See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2003)
147. Is Knowledge Shared within Households? Theory and Evidence for Bangladesh
     Working Papers, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore View citations (5)
148. Is inequality bad for business: a non-linear microeconomic model of wealth effects on self-employment
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
149. Measuring aggregate welfare in developing countries - How well do national accounts and surveys agree?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (18)
     See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2003)
150. Measuring pro-poor growth
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (81)
     See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2003)
151. On the urbanization of poverty
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2002)
152. Qualitative and Quantitative Poverty Appraisal: Complementarities, Tensions and the Way Forward
     Working Papers, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management
153. Wealth Distribution and Self-Employment in a Developing Economy
     CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (8)
154. Who wants Safer Streets? Explaining Concern for Public Safety in Brazil
     Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Psychology (2003)

2000

155. Are the poor protected from budget cuts? theory and evidence for Argentina
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
156. Distributional outcomes of a decentralized welfare program
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (25)
157. Estimating the Benefit Incidence of an Antipoverty Program by Propensity Score Matching
     Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers, Econometric Society View citations (33)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (2003)
158. How did the world's poorest fare in the 1990s ?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (29)
     See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (2001)
159. Identifying welfare effects from subjective questions
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (74)
     See also Journal Article in Economica (2001)
160. Las líneas de pobreza en la teoría y en la práctica
     Sede de la CEPAL en Santiago (Estudios e Investigaciones), Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
161. Short-lived shocks with long-lived impacts? - household income dynamics in a transition economy
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (24)
162. What can we learn about country performance from conditional comparisons across countries?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)

1999

163. Demand for public safety
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
164. Does child labor displace schooling? - evidence on behavioral responses to an enrollment subsidy
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (107)
     See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2000)
165. Income gains to the poor from workfare - estimates for Argentina's TRABAJAR Program
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (26)
166. Is knowledge shared within households?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)
167. Is more targeting consistent with less spending?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (15)
     See also Journal Article in International Tax and Public Finance (1999)
168. Monitoring targeting performance when decentralized allocation to the poor are unobserved
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
     See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (2000)
169. Proceedings of a Conference of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium: On Reform, Food Prices and Poverty in India
     1998: Policy Reform, Market Stability, and Food Security Conference, June 1998, Alexandria VA, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium
170. Protecting the Poor in a Crisis - and Beyond
     World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (1)
171. Protecting the poor from macroeconomic shocks
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (15)
172. Subjective economic welfare
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (24)
173. Themystery of the vanishing benefits: Ms. Speedy Analyst's introduction to evaluation
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
174. When is growth pro-poor? Evidence from the diverse experiences of India's states
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (64)
175. Who wants to redistribute? Russia's tunnel effect in the 1990's
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (6)

1998

176. Appraising workfare programs
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
177. Behavioral responses to risk in rural China
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2001)
178. Benefit incidence and the timing of program capture
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (14)
179. Determinants of transient and chronic poverty: evidence from rural China
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)
180. Evaluating a targeted social program when placement is decentralized
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (5)
181. Farm productivity and rural poverty in India
     FCND discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (139)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Studies (1998)
182. Geographic Poverty Traps?
     Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development View citations (59)
183. Measuring poverty using qualitative perceptions of welfare
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (20)
184. Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice
     Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (107)
185. Reaching poor areas in a federal system
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
186. When economic reform is faster than statistical reform - measuring and explaining inequality in rural China
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (11)

1997

187. Are the poor less well-insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (35)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (1999)
188. Banking on the poor? Branch placement and nonfarm rural development in Bangladesh
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
189. Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (231)
     See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (1997)
190. Poor areas, or only poor people?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (73)
191. Spatial poverty traps?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (13)
192. Why have some Indian states performed better than others at reducing rural poverty?
     FCND discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (9)

1996

193. Are there dynamic gains from a poor-area development program?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1998)
194. Comparaisons de la Pauverte. Concepts et methodes
     Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (2)
195. Equity and growth in developing countries: old and new perspectives on the policy issues
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (95)
196. Famines and economics
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Literature (1997)
197. India's Checkered History in Fight against Poverty: Are There Lessons for the Future?
     Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (24)
198. Issues in measuring and modeling poverty
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (49)
     See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (1996)
199. Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring
     FCND discussion papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) View citations (12)
     Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (1996) View citations (2)
200. Transient poverty in rural China
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
201. What can new survey data tell us about recent changes in distribution and poverty?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (30)
     See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (1997)
202. Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (64)

1995

203. Decomposing social indicators using distributional data
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
     See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (1997)
204. Growth and poverty in rural India
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (30)
205. Is Targeting Through a Work Requirement Efficient? Some Evidence for Rural India
     Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (70)

1994

206. How important to India's poor is the urban - rural composition of growth?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (12)
207. How land-based targeting affects rural poverty
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
208. Poverty and household size
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)
     See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (1995)
209. When method matters: toward a resolution of the debate about Bangladesh's poverty measures
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)

1993

210. How robust is a poverty profile?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
     See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (1994)
211. Is poverty increasing in the developing world?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (40)
     See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (1994)
212. Poverty and policy
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (122)
     See also Chapter (1995)

1992

213. Poverty Comparisons - A Guide to Concepts and Methods
     Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (159)

1991

214. Does undernutrition respond to incomes and prices? dominance tests for indonesia
     Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (1)
     See also Journal Article in World Bank Economic Review (1992)
215. Growth and Redistribution Components of Changes in Poverty Measures
     Working Papers, World Bank - Living Standards Measurement View citations (76)
216. Higher wages for relief work can make many of the poor worse off: recent evidence from Maharashtra's"Employment Guarantee Scheme"
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
217. On hunger and public action
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
218. Quantifying the magnitude and severity of absolute poverty in the developing world in the mid-1980s
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)
219. The challenging arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)

1990

220. REACHING THE POOR THROUGH RURAL PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT; A SURVEY OF THEORY AND EVIDENCE
     World Bank - Discussion Papers, World Bank View citations (5)
221. Regional disparities, targeting, and poverty in India
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (53)
222. The sectoral structure of poverty during an adjustment period: evidence for Indonesia in the mid-1980s
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
     See also Journal Article in World Development (1991)

1989

223. Cost of living differences between urban and rural areas in Indonesia
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
224. Do price increases for staple foods help or hurt the rural poor?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (7)
225. Is undernutrition responsive to changes in incomes?
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
226. Poverty and undernutrition in Indonesia during the 1980s
     Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
227. Reciprocity Without Commitment: Characterization and Performance of Informal Risk-Sharing Arrangements
     Working Papers, Warwick - Development Economics Research Centre View citations (11)

1987

228. Market Responses to Anti-Hunger Policies
     WIDER Working Papers, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (6)
229. Market Responses to Anti-Hunger Policies: Effects on Wages, Prices and Employment
     WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (7)

Journal Articles

2020

1. Book review of Measuring Poverty around the World
   The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2020, 18, (1), 131-136
2. Ethnic inequality and poverty in Malaysia since May 1969. Part 1: Inequality
   World Development, 2020, 134, (C) View citations (3)
3. Ethnic inequality and poverty in Malaysia since May 1969. Part 2: Poverty
   World Development, 2020, 134, (C) View citations (3)
4. Highly prized experiments
   World Development, 2020, 127, (C)
5. On Measuring Global Poverty
   Annual Review of Economics, 2020, 12, (1), 167-188 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper (2019)
6. Poverty and Growth in India over Six Decades
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 102, (1), 4-27 View citations (4)
7. “Poverty and Growth in India over the Past Six Decades” – Authors' Response to Comment
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 102, (1), 30-31

2019

8. Estimating within‐cluster spillover effects using a cluster randomization with application to knowledge diffusion in rural India
   Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34, (1), 110-128 View citations (3)
9. Global inequality when unequal countries create unequal people
   European Economic Review, 2019, 111, (C), 85-97 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper (2018)
10. Global poverty measurement when relative income matters
    Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 177, (C), - View citations (35)
11. Guaranteed employment or guaranteed income?
    World Development, 2019, 115, (C), 209-221 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper (2018)
12. Lifting the floor? Economic development, social protection and the developing World's poorest
    Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 139, (C), 97-108 View citations (5)
13. Most of Africa's Nutritionally Deprived Women and Children are Not Found in Poor Households
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101, (4), 631-644 View citations (15)

2018

14. A poor means test? Econometric targeting in Africa
    Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 134, (C), 109-124 View citations (28)
    See also Working Paper (2016)
15. An exploration of the changes in the international comparison program’s global economic landscape
    World Development, 2018, 105, (C), 201-216 View citations (1)
16. Inequality and Globalization: A Review Essay
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2018, 56, (2), 620-42 View citations (20)
    See also Working Paper (2017)
17. Workfare versus transfers in rural India
    World Development, 2018, 112, (C), 244-258 View citations (8)

2017

18. A concave log-like transformation allowing non-positive values
    Economics Letters, 2017, 161, (C), 130-132 View citations (29)
19. For India’s Rural Poor, Growing Towns Matter More Than Growing Cities
    World Development, 2017, 98, (C), 413-429 View citations (29)
    See also Working Paper (2017)
20. Inequality and Poverty When Effort Matters
    Econometrics, 2017, 5, (4), 1-19 View citations (4)
21. Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India
    World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31, (2), 385-411 View citations (38)
    See also Working Paper (2015)

2016

22. Are the world’s poorest being left behind?
    Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21, (2), 139-164 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper (2015)
23. Can Subjective Questions on Economic Welfare Be Trusted?
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64, (4), 697 - 726 View citations (12)
24. Is Workfare Cost-effective against Poverty in a Poor Labor-Surplus Economy?
    World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30, (3), 413-445 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper (2013)
25. The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30, (1), 77-94 View citations (8)
26. Toward better global poverty measures
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14, (2), 227-248 View citations (9)
    Also in The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14, (2), 227-248 (2016) View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper (2015)

2015

27. Benefit incidence with incentive effects, measurement errors and latent heterogeneity: A case study for China
    Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 128, (C), 124-132 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper (2015)
28. Empowering poor people through public information? Lessons from a movie in rural India
    Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 132, (C), 13-22 View citations (24)
29. On testing the scale sensitivity of poverty measures
    Economics Letters, 2015, 137, (C), 88-90 View citations (7)
30. On the Implications of Essential Heterogeneity for Estimating Causal Impacts Using Social Experiments
    Journal of Econometric Methods, 2015, 4, (1), 7
    See also Working Paper (2011)
31. The Luxembourg Income Study
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13, (4), 527-547 View citations (23)
    See also Working Paper (2014)

2014

32. Can We Trust Shoestring Evaluations?
    World Bank Economic Review, 2014, 28, (3), 413-431 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper (2012)
33. Intergenerational mobility and interpersonal inequality in an African economy
    Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 110, (C), 327-344 View citations (38)
    See also Working Paper (2014)
34. On the Role of Aid in The Great Escape
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60, (4), 967-984 View citations (3)

2013

35. A Proposal for Truly Global Poverty Measures
    Global Policy, 2013, 4, (3), 258-265 View citations (13)
36. How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?
    World Bank Research Observer, 2013, 28, (2), 139-158 View citations (47)
    See also Working Paper (2013)
37. Knowledgeable bankers? The demand for research in World Bank operations
    Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2013, 5, (1), 1-29 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper (2011)
38. More Relatively-Poor People in a Less Absolutely-Poor World
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59, (1), 1-28 View citations (48)
    See also Working Paper (2012)
39. Price Levels and Economic Growth: Making Sense of Revisions to Data on Real Incomes
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59, (4), 593-613 View citations (10)
40. Reply to Robert Inklaar
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59, (4), 623-628 View citations (2)

2012

41. Fighting Poverty One Experiment at a Time: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty: Review Essay
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50, (1), 103-14 View citations (4)
42. Frame-of-reference bias in subjective welfare
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 81, (2), 556-570 View citations (33)
43. Mashup Indices of Development
    World Bank Research Observer, 2012, 27, (1), 1-32 View citations (30)
    See also Working Paper (2010)
44. The World Bank’s publication record
    The Review of International Organizations, 2012, 7, (4), 343-368 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper (2010)
45. Troubling tradeoffs in the Human Development Index
    Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99, (2), 201-209 View citations (83)
    See also Working Paper (2010)
46. Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?
    American Economic Review, 2012, 102, (1), 504-23 View citations (80)
    See also Working Paper (2009)

2011

47. A Comparative Perspective on Poverty Reduction in Brazil, China, and India
    World Bank Research Observer, 2011, 26, (1), 71-104 View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper (2009)
48. Has India's Economic Growth Become More Pro-Poor in the Wake of Economic Reforms?
    World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25, (2), 157-189 View citations (27)
    See also Working Paper (2009)
49. On measuring scholarly influence by citations
    Scientometrics, 2011, 88, (1), 321-337 View citations (8)
50. On multidimensional indices of poverty
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9, (2), 235-248 View citations (173)
    See also Working Paper (2011)
51. The human development index: a response to Klugman, Rodriguez and Choi
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9, (3), 475-478 View citations (12)
52. Weakly Relative Poverty
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93, (4), 1251-1261 View citations (72)
    See also Working Paper (2009)

2010

53. A Micro‐Decomposition Analysis of Aggregate Human Development Outcomes*
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72, (2), 119-145 View citations (1)
54. Do Poorer Countries Have Less Capacity for Redistribution?
    Journal of Globalization and Development, 2010, 1, (2), 1-31 View citations (31)
    See also Working Paper (2011)
55. Poverty reduction without economic growth?: Explaining Brazil's poverty dynamics, 1985-2004
    Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 93, (1), 20-36 View citations (36)
    See also Working Paper (2007)
56. The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010, 125, (4), 1577-1625 View citations (195)
    See also Working Paper (2008)
57. The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) Middle Class
    World Development, 2010, 38, (4), 445-454 View citations (40)
58. The pattern of growth and poverty reduction in China
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38, (1), 2-16 View citations (62)
    See also Working Paper (2009)
59. Understanding PPPs and PPP-Based National Accounts: Comment
    American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2, (4), 46-52 View citations (8)
60. Who cares about relative deprivation?
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 73, (2), 171-185 View citations (61)
    See also Working Paper (2005)

2009

61. Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success Against Poverty?
    World Development, 2009, 37, (2), 303-313 View citations (25)
    See also Working Paper (2008)
62. Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas?
    Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, (3-4), 512-528 View citations (49)
63. Bailing Out the World's Poorest
    Challenge, 2009, 52, (2), 55-80 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper (2008)
64. Dollar a Day Revisited
    World Bank Economic Review, 2009, 23, (2), 163-184 View citations (28)
    See also Working Paper (2008)
65. Evaluating three stylised interventions
    Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2009, 1, (3), 227-236 View citations (3)
66. Evaluation in the Practice of Development
    World Bank Research Observer, 2009, 24, (1), 29-53 View citations (43)
    See also Working Paper (2008)
67. Should the Randomistas Rule?
    The Economists' Voice, 2009, 6, (2), 1-5 View citations (34)

2008

68. Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition?
    Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 87, (2), 191-209 View citations (23)
    See also Working Paper (2006)
69. Miss-targeted or miss-measured?
    Economics Letters, 2008, 100, (1), 9-12 View citations (10)
70. Testing for an economic gradient in health status using subjective data
    Health Economics, 2008, 17, (11), 1237-1259 View citations (15)

2007

71. "Achieving Child-Health-Related Millennium Development Goals: The Role of Infrastructure"--A Comment
    World Development, 2007, 35, (5), 920-928 View citations (12)
72. An econometric method of correcting for unit nonresponse bias in surveys
    Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 136, (1), 213-235 View citations (41)
    See also Working Paper (2005)
73. China's (uneven) progress against poverty
    Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 82, (1), 1-42 View citations (278)
    See also Working Paper (2004)
74. Lasting Impacts of Indonesia’s Financial Crisis
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 56, (1), 27-56 View citations (17)
75. New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty
    Population and Development Review, 2007, 33, (4), 667-701 View citations (151)
    See also Working Paper (2007)

2006

76. Land Reallocation in an Agrarian Transition
    Economic Journal, 2006, 116, (514), 924-942 View citations (23)
77. Looking beyond averages in the trade and poverty debate
    World Development, 2006, 34, (8), 1374-1392 View citations (29)
    See also Working Paper (2010)
78. Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2006, 4, (1), 33-55 View citations (84)
    See also Working Paper (2005)
79. TESTING POVERTY LINES
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2006, 52, (3), 399-421 View citations (14)
80. The Wealth Effect on New Business Startups in a Developing Economy
    Economica, 2006, 73, (291), 367-392 View citations (35)

2005

81. A poverty-inequality trade off?
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3, (2), 169-181 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper (2005)
82. Decentralized targeting of an antipoverty program
    Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (4), 705-727 View citations (201)
83. Hidden impact? Household saving in response to a poor-area development project
    Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (11-12), 2183-2204 View citations (44)
84. On Measuring Aggregate "Social Efficiency."
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 53, (2), 273-92 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
85. Rich and powerful?: Subjective power and welfare in Russia
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2005, 56, (2), 141-172 View citations (30)
    See also Working Paper (2002)
86. What Can Ex-Participants Reveal about a Program’s Impact?
    Journal of Human Resources, 2005, 40, (1) View citations (32)

2004

87. Assisting the Transition from Workfare to Work: A Randomized Experiment
    ILR Review, 2004, 58, (1), 128-142 View citations (32)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
88. Breaking up the collective farms
    The Economics of Transition, 2004, 12, (2), 201-236 View citations (9)
89. Household Income Dynamics in Two Transition Economies
    Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 2004, 8, (3), 1-33 View citations (57)
90. How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?
    World Bank Research Observer, 2004, 19, (2), 141-169 View citations (93)
    See also Working Paper (2004)
91. Social Protection in a Crisis: Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas
    World Bank Economic Review, 2004, 18, (3), 367-399 View citations (44)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
92. The Debate on Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: why Measurement Matters
    QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, 2004, (1) View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
93. Welfare Impacts of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization
    World Bank Economic Review, 2004, 18, (1), 29-57 View citations (67)

2003

94. Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India?
    Journal of Econometrics, 2003, 112, (1), 153-173 View citations (221)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
95. Estimating the Benefit Incidence of an Antipoverty Program by Propensity-Score Matching
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2003, 21, (1), 19-30 View citations (103)
    See also Working Paper (2000)
96. Inequality convergence
    Economics Letters, 2003, 80, (3), 351-356 View citations (65)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
97. Measuring Aggregate Welfare in Developing Countries: How Well Do National Accounts and Surveys Agree?
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85, (3), 645-652 View citations (89)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
98. Measuring pro-poor growth
    Economics Letters, 2003, 78, (1), 93-99 View citations (389)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
99. Who wants safer streets? Explaining concern for public safety in Brazil
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2003, 24, (1), 17-33 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper (2001)

2002

100. Are the Poor Protected from Budget Cuts? Evidence for Argentina
     Journal of Applied Economics, 2002, 05, (1), 27 View citations (3)
     Also in Journal of Applied Economics, 2002, 5, 95-121 (2002) View citations (4)
     Journal of Applied Economics, 2002, 5, (1), 95-121 (2002)
101. Is India's Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind?
     Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002, 16, (3), 89-108 View citations (95)
     See also Working Paper (2002)
102. On the urbanization of poverty
     Journal of Development Economics, 2002, 68, (2), 435-442 View citations (53)
     See also Working Paper (2001)
103. Self-rated economic welfare in Russia
     European Economic Review, 2002, 46, (8), 1453-1473 View citations (161)
104. Why has economic growth been more pro-poor in some states of India than others?
     Journal of Development Economics, 2002, 68, (2), 381-400 View citations (259)

2001

105. Behavioral responses to risk in rural China
     Journal of Development Economics, 2001, 66, (1), 23-49 View citations (81)
     See also Working Paper (1998)
106. Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Looking Beyond Averages
     World Development, 2001, 29, (11), 1803-1815 View citations (428)
     See also Working Paper (2001)
107. How did the world's poorest fare in the 1990s?
     Review of Income and Wealth, 2001, 47, (3), 283-300 View citations (55)
     See also Working Paper (2000)
108. Identifying Welfare Effects from Subjective Questions
     Economica, 2001, 68, (271), 335-357 View citations (94)
     See also Working Paper (2000)
109. Is literacy shared within households? Theory and evidence for Bangladesh
     Labour Economics, 2001, 8, (6), 649-665 View citations (35)
110. Note: On Assessing the Efficiency of the Welfare State: A Comment
     Kyklos, 2001, 54, (1), 115-124

2000

111. Banking on the Poor? Branch Location and Nonfarm Rural Development in Bangladesh
     Review of Development Economics, 2000, 4, (2), 121-139 View citations (1)
112. Carbon Emissions and Income Inequality
     Oxford Economic Papers, 2000, 52, (4), 651-69 View citations (81)
113. Does Child Labour Displace Schooling? Evidence on Behavioural Responses to an Enrollment Subsidy
     Economic Journal, 2000, 110, (462), C158-75 View citations (257)
     See also Working Paper (1999)
114. Is transient poverty different? Evidence for rural China
     Journal of Development Studies, 2000, 36, (6), 82-99 View citations (138)
115. Measuring Poverty Using Qualitative Perceptions Of Consumption Adequacy
     The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000, 82, (3), 462-471 View citations (151)
116. Monitoring Targeting Performance When Decentralized Allocations to the Poor Are Unobserved
     World Bank Economic Review, 2000, 14, (2), 331-45 View citations (40)
     See also Working Paper (1999)
117. Prices, wages and poverty in rural India: what lessons do the time series data hold for policy?
     Food Policy, 2000, 25, (3), 351-364 View citations (19)
118. Welfare Impacts of the 1998 Financial Crisis in Russia and the Response of the Public Safety Net
     The Economics of Transition, 2000, 8, (2), 269-295 View citations (49)
119. Who wants to redistribute?: The tunnel effect in 1990s Russia
     Journal of Public Economics, 2000, 76, (1), 87-104 View citations (199)

1999

120. Appraising Workfare
     World Bank Research Observer, 1999, 14, (1), 31-48 View citations (31)
121. Are poorer states worse at targeting their poor?
     Economics Letters, 1999, 65, (3), 373-377 View citations (19)
122. Are the poor less well insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China
     Journal of Development Economics, 1999, 58, (1), 61-81 View citations (196)
     See also Working Paper (1997)
123. Benefit Incidence, Public Spending Reforms, and the Timing of Program Capture
     World Bank Economic Review, 1999, 13, (2), 257-73 View citations (69)
124. China's Lagging Poor Areas
     American Economic Review, 1999, 89, (2), 301-305 View citations (20)
125. Is More Targeting Consistent with Less Spending?
     International Tax and Public Finance, 1999, 6, (3), 411-419 View citations (14)
     See also Working Paper (1999)
126. When Economic Reform is Faster Then Statistical Reform: Measuring and Explaining Income Inequality in Rural China
     Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1999, 61, (1), 33-56 View citations (50)

1998

127. Are there dynamic gains from a poor-area development program?
     Journal of Public Economics, 1998, 67, (1), 65-85 View citations (71)
     See also Working Paper (1996)
128. Does aggregation hide the harmful effects of inequality on growth?
     Economics Letters, 1998, 61, (1), 73-77 View citations (48)
129. Farm productivity and rural poverty in India
     Journal of Development Studies, 1998, 34, (4), 62-85 View citations (143)
     See also Working Paper (1998)
130. Transient Poverty in Postreform Rural China
     Journal of Comparative Economics, 1998, 26, (2), 338-357 View citations (141)

1997

131. A Comment on Rati Ram's Test of the Kuznets Hypothesis
     Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1997, 46, (1), 187-90 View citations (3)
132. Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?
     Economics Letters, 1997, 56, (1), 51-57 View citations (251)
     See also Working Paper (1997)
133. Decomposing social indicators using distributional data
     Journal of Econometrics, 1997, 77, (1), 125-139 View citations (120)
     See also Working Paper (1995)
134. Famines and Economics
     Journal of Economic Literature, 1997, 35, (3), 1205-1242 View citations (52)
     See also Working Paper (1996)
135. Good and bad growth: The human development reports
     World Development, 1997, 25, (5), 631-638 View citations (106)
136. Macroeconomic Crises and Poverty Monitoring: A Case Study for India
     Review of Development Economics, 1997, 1, (2), 135-152
137. Risk and Insurance in Village India: Comment
     Econometrica, 1997, 65, (1), 171-184 View citations (110)
138. What Can New Survey Data Tell Us about Recent Changes in Distribution and Poverty?
     World Bank Economic Review, 1997, 11, (2), 357-82 View citations (301)
     See also Working Paper (1996)

1996

139. Data in transition: Assessing rural living standards in Southern China
     China Economic Review, 1996, 7, (1), 23-56 View citations (94)
140. Growth divergence due to spatial externalities
     Economics Letters, 1996, 53, (2), 227-232 View citations (28)
141. How Important to India's Poor Is the Sectoral Composition of Economic Growth?
     World Bank Economic Review, 1996, 10, (1), 1-25 View citations (227)
142. How Well Can Method Substitute for Data? Five Experiments in Poverty Analysis
     World Bank Research Observer, 1996, 11, (2), 199-221 View citations (18)
143. Issues in Measuring and Modelling Poverty
     Economic Journal, 1996, 106, (438), 1328-43 View citations (105)
     See also Working Paper (1996)
144. When Method Matters: Monitoring Poverty in Bangladesh
     Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1996, 44, (4), 761-92 View citations (23)

1995

145. Growth and poverty: Evidence for developing countries in the 1980s
     Economics Letters, 1995, 48, (3-4), 411-417 View citations (79)
146. Poverty and Household Size
     Economic Journal, 1995, 105, (433), 1415-34 View citations (226)
     See also Working Paper (1994)
147. Testing a social safety net
     Journal of Public Economics, 1995, 57, (2), 175-199 View citations (14)

1994

148. How Robust Is a Poverty Profile?
     World Bank Economic Review, 1994, 8, (1), 75-102 View citations (156)
     See also Working Paper (1993)
149. How well do static indicators identify the chronically poor?
     Journal of Public Economics, 1994, 53, (3), 367-394 View citations (54)
150. IS POVERTY INCREASING IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD?
     Review of Income and Wealth, 1994, 40, (4), 359-376 View citations (14)
     See also Working Paper (1993)
151. Impacts on rural poverty of land-based targeting: Further results for Bangladesh
     World Development, 1994, 22, (6), 823-838 View citations (16)
152. Measuring Social Welfare with and without Poverty Lines
     American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 359-64 View citations (25)
153. Poverty rankings using noisy data on living standards
     Economics Letters, 1994, 45, (4), 481-485 View citations (18)
154. Transfer Benefits from Public-Works Employment: Evidence for Rural India
     Economic Journal, 1994, 104, (427), 1346-69 View citations (68)

1993

155. Does Household Consumption Behave as a Martingale? A Test for Rural South India
     The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1993, 75, (3), 500-504 View citations (5)
     See also Chapter (2006)
156. Does Maharashtra's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment? Effects of the 1988 Wage Increase
     Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1993, 41, (2), 251-75 View citations (32)
157. Employment and Length of the Working Week in a Unionized Economy in which Hours of Work Influence Productivity
     The Economic Record, 1993, 69, (4), 428-436 View citations (13)
158. Human Development in Poor Countries: On the Role of Private Incomes and Public Services
     Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993, 7, (1), 133-150 View citations (301)
159. Reciprocity without commitment: Characterization and performance of informal insurance arrangements
     Journal of Development Economics, 1993, 40, (1), 1-24 View citations (273)

1992

160. Does Undernutrition Respond to Incomes and Prices? Dominance Tests for Indonesia
     World Bank Economic Review, 1992, 6, (1), 109-24 View citations (8)
     See also Working Paper (1991)
161. Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures: A decomposition with applications to Brazil and India in the 1980s
     Journal of Development Economics, 1992, 38, (2), 275-295 View citations (355)
162. On "Hunger and Public Action": A Review Article
     World Bank Research Observer, 1992, 7, (1), 1-16

1991

163. A Dynamic Econometric Model of Agricultural Wage Determination in Bangladesh
     Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1991, 53, (4), 361-76 View citations (30)
164. Measuring Changes in Poverty: A Methodological Case Study of Indonesia during an Adjustment Period
     World Bank Economic Review, 1991, 5, (1), 57-82 View citations (106)
165. QUANTIFYING ABSOLUTE POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
     Review of Income and Wealth, 1991, 37, (4), 345-361 View citations (107)
166. Reaching the Rural Poor through Public Employment: Arguments, Evidence, and Lessons from South Asia
     World Bank Research Observer, 1991, 6, (2), 153-75 View citations (46)
167. The impact on poverty of food pricing reforms: A welfare analysis for Indonesia
     Journal of Policy Modeling, 1991, 13, (2), 281-299 View citations (52)
168. The sectoral structure of poverty during an adjustment period: Evidence for Indonesia in the mid-1980s
     World Development, 1991, 19, (12), 1653-1678 View citations (22)
     See also Working Paper (1990)
169. Urban-rural cost-of-living differentials in a developing economy
     Journal of Urban Economics, 1991, 29, (1), 113-127 View citations (18)

1990

170. Famine, biosocial society series: G. Ainsworth Harrison, ed., No. 1 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988) pp. xvi + 166, [UK pound]30.00
     Journal of Development Economics, 1990, 33, (1), 165-170
171. Income Effects on Undernutrition
     Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1990, 38, (3), 489-515 View citations (32)
172. On the coverage of public employment schemes for poverty alleviation
     Journal of Development Economics, 1990, 34, (1-2), 57-79 View citations (16)
173. Rural Welfare Effects of Food Price Changes under Induced Wage Responses: Theory and Evidence for Bangladesh
     Oxford Economic Papers, 1990, 42, (3), 574-85 View citations (80)
174. Rural indebtedness in the Punjab 1878: Results of a household survey
     Explorations in Economic History, 1990, 27, (2), 178-196

1989

175. Land-contingent poverty alleviation schemes
     World Development, 1989, 17, (8), 1223-1233 View citations (10)
176. Targeted policies for poverty alleviation under imperfect information: Algorithms and applications
     Journal of Policy Modeling, 1989, 11, (2), 213-224 View citations (43)
177. The welfare cost of housing standards: Theory with application to Jakarta
     Journal of Urban Economics, 1989, 26, (2), 197-211 View citations (2)

1988

178. Expected Poverty under Risk-Induced Welfare Variability
     Economic Journal, 1988, 98, (393), 1171-82 View citations (111)
179. Liberalization and inequality in Sri Lanka: A comment
     Journal of Development Economics, 1988, 28, (2), 247-255
180. Rational expectations as long-run equilibria: Tests for Indian securities
     Economics Letters, 1988, 26, (4), 363-367 View citations (2)
181. Social Security in a "Moral Economy": An Empirical Analysis for Java
     The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1988, 70, (1), 36-44 View citations (69)

1987

182. Towards a theory of famine relief policy
     Journal of Public Economics, 1987, 33, (1), 21-39 View citations (1)
183. Trade and stabilization: Another look at British India's controversial foodgrain exports
     Explorations in Economic History, 1987, 24, (4), 354-370 View citations (8)

1986

184. On Expectations Formation when Future Welfare is Contemplated
     Kyklos, 1986, 39, (4), 564-573
185. On some estimates of an asian savings function
     Economics Letters, 1986, 20, (2), 121-124 View citations (1)
186. Testing Market Integration
     American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1986, 68, (1), 102-109 View citations (98)

1985

187. The Information Efficiency of Traders' Price Expectations in a Bangladesh Price Market
     Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1985, 47, (2), 171-84 View citations (2)
188. The Performance of Rice Markets in Bangladesh during the 1974 Famine
     Economic Journal, 1985, 95, (377), 15-29 View citations (14)

1984

189. How Much Is a Transfer Payment Worth to a Rural Worker?
     Oxford Economic Papers, 1984, 36, (3), 478-89 View citations (4)
190. The social appraisal of local public spending using revealed fiscal preferences
     Journal of Urban Economics, 1984, 16, (1), 46-64 View citations (2)

1983

191. Commodity transfers and the international economic order: A comment
     Journal of Development Economics, 1983, 13, (1-2), 205-212 View citations (2)

1979

192. A Note on Intra-Urban Wage Differentials1
     Urban Studies, 1979, 16, (2), 213-215 View citations (2)

Undated

193. Decentralizing Eligibility for a Federal Antipoverty Program: A Case Study for China
     World Bank Economic Review, 23, (1), 1-30 View citations (1)

Books

2016

1. The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (106)

2014

2. Right to Work? Assessing India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (30)

2008

3. Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (42)

Chapters

2014

1. Trade Insulation as Social Protection
   A chapter in The Economics of Food Price Volatility, 2014, pp 345-366 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper (2013)

2008

2. Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs
   Elsevier View citations (66)
   See also Working Paper (2005)

2006

3. DOES HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION BEHAVE AS A MARTINGALE? A TEST FOR RURAL SOUTH INDIA
   Chapter 6 in Econometrics, Statistics And Computational Approaches In Food And Health Sciences, 2006, pp 99-103
   See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (1993)
4. On the Consistency of Poverty Lines
   Springer

1995

5. Poverty and policy
   Chapter 41 in Handbook of Development Economics, 1995, vol. 3, Part 2, pp 2551-2657 View citations (177)
   See also Working Paper (1993)