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Working Papers

2023

1. Classroom Competition, Student Effort, and Peer Effects
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2022

2. Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2020

3. Is Fish Brain Food or Brain Poison? Sea Surface Temperature, Methyl-mercury and Child Cognitive Development
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2019

4. Assessing the Benefits of Long-Run Weather Forecasting for the Rural Poor: Farmer Investments and Worker Migration in a Dynamic Equilibrium Model
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
5. Housing Prices, Inter-generational Co-residence, and “Excess” Savings by the Young: Evidence using Chinese Data
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
6. The Effects of Schooling on Costless Health Maintenance: Overweight Adolescents and Children in Rural China
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2017

7. Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (53)
   Also in Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2017) View citations (54)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (2022)

2016

8. External Validity in a Stochastic World
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
   Also in Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2016) View citations (11)
   Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2016) View citations (9)
   Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2016) View citations (9)

2015

9. Identifying the Cost of a Public Health Success: Arsenic Well Water Contamination and Productivity in Bangladesh
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (2021)
10. Insiders and Outsiders: Local Ethnic Politics and Public Goods Provision
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (18)
11. Networks and Misallocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap
    Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge View citations (3)
    Also in CReAM Discussion Paper Series, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London (2015) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2016)

2014

12. Co-residence, Life-Cycle Savings and Inter- Generational Support in Urban China
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University View citations (24)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014) View citations (23)
    Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics (2014) View citations (24)
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2014) View citations (23)
13. Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (28)
    Also in Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2014) View citations (28)
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2014) View citations (28)
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2014) View citations (25)
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2014)
14. Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (22)
    Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2014) View citations (21)
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2013) View citations (11)
    Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics (2013) View citations (11)
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2013) View citations (11)

2013

15. Forecasting Profitabilithy
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center View citations (3)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013) View citations (3)
    Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics (2013) View citations (3)
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2013) View citations (2)
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2013) View citations (3)
16. Networks, Commitment, and Competence: Caste in Indian Local Politics
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)

2012

17. Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences View citations (5)
    Also in Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics (2012) View citations (5)
    ADB Economics Working Paper Series, Asian Development Bank (2012) View citations (5)
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2012) View citations (5)
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2012) View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2013)
18. Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University View citations (121)
    Also in Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2012) View citations (122)
    Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics (2012) View citations (124)
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2012) View citations (122)

2010

19. Global Wage Inequality and the International Flow of Migrants
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University View citations (15)
    Also in Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics (2010) View citations (15)
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2010) View citations (14)
20. Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University View citations (20)
21. Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based Economy
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center View citations (15)
    Also in Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics (2010) View citations (16)
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2012)
22. Is There Surplus Labor in Rural India?
    Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics View citations (36)
    Also in Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2010) View citations (35)
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2010) View citations (36)
23. Microeconomic Approaches to Development: Schooling, Learning, and Growth
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University View citations (23)
    Also in Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2010) View citations (22)
    Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics (2010) View citations (22)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Perspectives (2010)
24. Microeconomics of Technology Adoption
    Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics View citations (313)
    Also in Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2010) View citations (313)
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2010) View citations (322)
    See also Journal Article in Annual Review of Economics (2010)

2009

25. Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
    Also in CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University (2005) View citations (38)

2008

26. Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources: Sophie's Choice in Mao's Mass Send Down Movement
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center
    Also in Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2008)
    Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics (2008) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (2010)
27. From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (16)
28. Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (36)
29. The Determinants of the Wages of Immigrants
    2008 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics
30. The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Government
    Working Papers, Yale University, Department of Economics View citations (26)
    Also in Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2008) View citations (29)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008) View citations (28)
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center (2008) View citations (25)

2006

31. Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China's 'One Child' Policy
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center View citations (19)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2006) View citations (35)
    Working Papers, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2006) View citations (14)
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (2009)

2005

32. Sharing the Burden of Disease: Gender, the Household Division of Labor and the Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University View citations (2)

2004

33. Immigrant Health--Selectivity and Acculturation
    Labor and Demography, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (120)
    Also in IFS Working Papers, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2004) View citations (143)
34. The New Immigrant Survey Pilot (NIS-P): Overview and New Findings about U.S. Legal Immigrants at Admission
    Labor and Demography, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (16)
    See also Journal Article in Demography (2000)

1998

35. The Changing Skills of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (31)
    See also Chapter (2000)

1997

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

1996

38. Financial Intermediation, Transfers and Commitment: Do Banks Crowd Out Private Insurance Arrangements in Low-Income Rural Areas?
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (2)
    Also in Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania (1996) View citations (3)
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania (1996) View citations (2)
39. Household Division, Inequality and Rural Economic Growth
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (5)

1995

40. Imperfect Commitment, Altruism, and the Family: Evidence from Transfer Behavior in Low-Income Rural Areas
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2001)

1992

41. Wealth, weather risk, and the composition and profitability of agricultural investments
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (27)
    Also in Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center (1989) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (1993)

1990

42. Credit Markets, Risk Pooling and Risk Taking in Low-Income Countries
    1990 Quantifying Long Run Agricultural Risks and Evaluating Farmer Responses to Risk Meeting, January 28-31, 1990, Sanibel Island, Florida, Regional Research Projects > S-232: Quantifying Long Run Agricultural Risks and Evaluating Farmer Responses to Risk

1989

43. Credit Market Constraints, Consumption Smoothing and the Accumulation of Durable Production Assets in Low-Income Countries: Investments in Bullocks in India
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1993)
44. How infrastructure and financial institutions affect agricultural output and investment in India
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (17)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (1993)
45. Productivity, Health and Inequality in the Intrahousehold Distribution of Food in Low-Income Countries
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center View citations (11)
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1990)
46. The Selectivity of Fertility and the Determinants of Human Capital Investments: Parametric and Semi-Parametric Estimates
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center View citations (12)

1987

47. Consumption Smoothing, Migration and Marriage: Evidence from Rural India
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center View citations (41)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1989)
48. English Language Skill Acquisition, Locational Choice and Labor Market Returns Among the Major Foreign-Born Language Groups in the United States in 1900 and 1980
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center
49. Estimating the Intrafamily Incidence of Health: Child Illness and Gender Inequality in Indonesian Households
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center
50. Fertility and Investments in Human Capital: Estimates of the Consequences of Imperfect Fertility Control in Malaysia
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center View citations (46)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (1987)
51. Human Capital, Population Growth and Economic Development: Beyond Correlations
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Policy Modeling (1988)
52. Labor Markets in Low Income Countries: Distortions, Mobility and Migration
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center View citations (5)

1986

53. Risk, Implicit Contracts and the Family in Rural Areas of Low-Income Countries
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (1988)

1985

54. What's In a Name? Country-of-Origin Influences on the Earnings of Immigrants in the United States
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center View citations (9)

1984

55. Agricultural Prices, Food Consumption and the Health and Productivity of Farmers
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center View citations (18)
56. Externalities, Heterogeneity and the Optimal Distribution of Public Programs: Child Health and Family Planning Interventions
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center
57. Heterogeneity, Intrafamily Distribution and Child Health
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Human Resources (1988)
58. Migration Selectivity and the Effects of Public Programs
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1988)
59. Specific Experience, Household Structure and Intergenerational Transfers: Farm Family Land and Labor Arrangements in Developing Countries
    Bulletins, University of Minnesota, Economic Development Center
    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (1985)
60. The Demand for and Supply of Births: Fertility and its Life-Cycle Consequences
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1985)

1980

61. Governmental Interventions and Household Behavior in a Developing Country: Anticipating the Unanticipated Consequences of Social Programs
    Center Discussion Papers, Yale University, Economic Growth Center View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (1982)
62. Household and non-household activities of youths: issues of modelling, data and estimation strategies
    ILO Working Papers, International Labour Organization View citations (2)

1976

63. The Demand of Farm Families for the Quantity and Quality of Schooling for their Children in the United States
    1976 Annual Meeting, August 15-18, State College, Pennsylvania, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
    See also Journal Article in American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1976)

Undated

64. Comparative Advantage, Information and the Allocation of Workers to Tasks: Evidence from an Agricultural Labor Market
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (15)
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (1996)
65. Dynamic Savings Decisions in Agricultural Environments with Incomplete Markets
    Home Pages, University of Pennsylvania View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (1997)
66. 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 in Journal of Political Economy (1995)
67. 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 in American Economic Review (1996)
68. 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 in Journal of Econometrics (1997)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities, and Optimal Farm Size
   Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130, (3), 636 - 680 View citations (21)
   See also Working Paper (2017)

2021

2. Identifying the Costs of a Public Health Success: Arsenic Well Water Contamination and Productivity in Bangladesh
   (Individual Variations in Inorganic Arsenic Metabolism Associated with AS3MT Genetic Polymorphisms)
   Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88, (5), 2479-2526 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper (2015)

2020

3. External Validity in a Stochastic World: Evidence from Low-Income Countries
   Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87, (1), 343-381 View citations (21)

2017

4. Foreword for the symposium in honour of Gary Becker
   Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45, (2), 217-218

2016

5. Networks and Misallocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap
   American Economic Review, 2016, 106, (1), 46-98 View citations (190)
   See also Working Paper (2015)

2014

6. Rainfall Forecasts, Weather, and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle
   American Economic Review, 2014, 104, (5), 278-83 View citations (27)
   See also Working Paper (2014)

2013

7. Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes: Evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese twins
   Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 104, (C), 245-260 View citations (34)
   See also Working Paper (2012)
8. Informal Risk Sharing, Index Insurance, and Risk Taking in Developing Countries
   American Economic Review, 2013, 103, (3), 375-80 View citations (106)

2012

9. Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based Economy
   American Economic Review, 2012, 102, (7), 3531-60 View citations (111)
   See also Working Paper (2010)
10. Symposium Honoring T. Paul Schultz: A Pioneer in Economic Demography and Development
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61, (1), 1 - 6
11. Thinking Small: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty: Review Essay
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50, (1), 115-27 View citations (16)

2010

12. Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources: Sophie's Choice in Mao's Mass Send-Down Movement
    Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 118, (1), 1-38 View citations (52)
    See also Working Paper (2008)
13. Microeconomic Approaches to Development: Schooling, Learning, and Growth
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2010, 24, (3), 81-96 View citations (21)
    See also Working Paper (2010)
14. Microeconomics of Technology Adoption
    Annual Review of Economics, 2010, 2, (1), 395-424 View citations (316)
    See also Working Paper (2010)

2009

15. Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birth Weight and China's "One-Child" Policy
    Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76, (3), 1149-1174 View citations (219)
    See also Working Paper (2006)

2007

16. Does Economic Growth Reduce Fertility? Rural India 1971-99
    India Policy Forum, 2007, 3, (1), 179-213 View citations (5)
    Also in India Policy Forum, 2006, 3, (1), 179-213 (2006) View citations (9)

2006

17. Editorial
    Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 79, (2), v-v
18. Parental Wealth and Adult Children's Welfare in Marriage
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88, (3), 496-509 View citations (16)
19. The circulation migration of the skilled and economic development
    Proceedings, 2006, 147-170 View citations (3)
20. Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern World: Caste, Gender, and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy
    American Economic Review, 2006, 96, (4), 1225-1252 View citations (335)

2005

21. Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Reply
    American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (5), 1745-1751 View citations (43)
22. Economic development and the decline of rural and urban community‐based networks
    The Economics of Transition, 2005, 13, (3), 427-443 View citations (8)
23. Immigration, health, and New York City: early results based on the U.S. new immigrant cohort of 2003
    Economic Policy Review, 2005, (Dec), 127-151 View citations (9)

2004

24. Agricultural Productivity Growth, Rural Economic Diversity, and Economic Reforms: India, 1970-2000
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2004, 52, (3), 509-42 View citations (106)
25. Marriage, Networks, and Jobs in Third World Cities
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2, (2-3), 437-446 View citations (6)
26. New research on education in developing economies
    Journal of Development Economics, 2004, 74, (1), 1-2 View citations (1)
27. Parental Allocations to Children: New Evidence on Bequest Differences among Siblings
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86, (2), 637-640 View citations (53)
28. Returns to Birthweight
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86, (2), 586-601 View citations (536)
29. Technological change and the distribution of schooling: evidence from green-revolution India
    Journal of Development Economics, 2004, 74, (1), 87-111 View citations (38)

2003

30. Economic Growth and the Rise of Forests
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003, 118, (2), 601-637 View citations (123)
31. Payoffs from Panels in Low-Income Countries: Economic Development and Economic Mobility
    American Economic Review, 2003, 93, (2), 112-117 View citations (38)

2002

32. Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation?
    American Economic Review, 2002, 92, (1), 323-334 View citations (456)
33. Household Division and Rural Economic Growth
    Review of Economic Studies, 2002, 69, (4), 839-869 View citations (64)

2001

34. 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 (244)
    See also Working Paper (1995)
35. Savings behaviour in low-income countries
    Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2001, 17, (1), 40-54 View citations (46)

2000

36. Natural "Natural Experiments" in Economics
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2000, 38, (4), 827-874 View citations (249)
37. The Consequences of the Agricultural Productivity Growth for Rural Landless Households: Findings from Research Based on the Indian Green Revolution Experience
    The Pakistan Development Review, 2000, 39, (4), 337-361
38. The new immigrant survey pilot (NIS-P): Overview and new findings about U.S. Legal immigrants at admission
    Demography, 2000, 37, (1), 127-138 View citations (40)
    See also Working Paper (2004)

1999

39. "Ability" biases in schooling returns and twins: a test and new estimates
    Economics of Education Review, 1999, 18, (2), 159-167 View citations (78)
40. Welfare, Marital Prospects, and Nonmarital Childbearing
    Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 107, (S6), S3-S32 View citations (70)
41. Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth
    Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 107, (4), 682-714 View citations (84)
    See also Working Paper (1997)

1997

42. Dynamic Savings Decisions in Agricultural Environments with Incomplete Markets
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1997, 15, (2), 282-92 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper
43. 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
44. The effects of improved nutrition, sanitation, and water quality on child health in high-mortality populations
    Journal of Econometrics, 1997, 77, (1), 209-235 View citations (83)

1996

45. College Choice and Wages: Estimates Using Data on Female Twins
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1996, 78, (4), 672-85 View citations (123)
46. Comparative Advantage, Information and the Allocation of Workers to Tasks: Evidence from an Agricultural Labour Market
    Review of Economic Studies, 1996, 63, (3), 347-374 View citations (58)
    See also Working Paper
47. Information Constraints, Strategic Behavior, and Migration: Theory and Evidence
    International Regional Science Review, 1996, 19, (1-2), 185-190
48. Technical Change and Human-Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution
    American Economic Review, 1996, 86, (4), 931-53 View citations (361)
    See also Working Paper
49. When Investing in Education Matters and When It Does Not
    Challenge, 1996, 39, (1), 22-29 View citations (1)

1995

50. 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 (1050)
    See also Working Paper
51. Sisters, Siblings, and Mothers: The Effect of Teen-Age Childbearing on Birth Outcomes in a Dynamic Family Context
    Econometrica, 1995, 63, (2), 303-26 View citations (93)
52. Why Are There Returns to Schooling?
    American Economic Review, 1995, 85, (2), 153-58 View citations (134)

1994

53. 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 (93)
54. Are There Increasing Returns to the Intergenerational Production of Human Capital? Maternal Schooling and Child Intellectual Achievement
    Journal of Human Resources, 1994, 29, (2) View citations (82)
55. Caveat emptor: Cross-country data on education and the labor force
    Journal of Development Economics, 1994, 44, (1), 147-171 View citations (52)
56. Endowments and the Allocation of Schooling in the Family and in the Marriage Market: The Twins Experiment
    Journal of Political Economy, 1994, 102, (6), 1131-74 View citations (263)
57. Inequality among Young Adult Siblings, Public Assistance Programs, and Intergenerational Living Arrangements
    Journal of Human Resources, 1994, 29, (4) View citations (17)
58. Parental and Public Transfers to Young Women and Their Children
    American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (5), 1195-1212 View citations (83)

1993

59. Credit Market Constraints, Consumption Smoothing, and the Accumulation of Durable Production Assets in Low-Income Countries: Investment in Bullocks in India
    Journal of Political Economy, 1993, 101, (2), 223-44 View citations (608)
    See also Working Paper (1989)
60. How infrastructure and financial institutions affect agricultural output and investment in India
    Journal of Development Economics, 1993, 41, (2), 337-366 View citations (183)
    See also Working Paper (1989)
61. Information, Learning, and Wage Rates in Low-Income Rural Areas
    Journal of Human Resources, 1993, 28, (4), 759-790 View citations (38)
62. Intergenerational Support and the Life-Cycle Incomes of Young Men and Their Parents: Human Capital Investments, Coresidence, and Intergenerational Financial Transfers
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1993, 11, (1), 84-112 View citations (122)
63. Introduction
    Psychology and Developing Societies, 1993, 5, (2), 121-122
64. Maternal Expectations and Ex Post Rationalizations: The Usefulness of Survey Information on the Wantedness of Children
    Journal of Human Resources, 1993, 28, (2), 205-229 View citations (25)
65. The Determinants and Consequences of the Placement of Government Programs in Indonesia
    The World Bank Economic Review, 1993, 7, (3), 319-48 View citations (107)
66. Wealth, Weather Risk and the Composition and Profitability of Agricultural Investments
    Economic Journal, 1993, 103, (416), 56-78 View citations (444)
    See also Working Paper (1992)
67. Women, Insurance Capital, and Economic Development in Rural India
    Journal of Human Resources, 1993, 28, (4), 735-758 View citations (7)

1991

68. Inequality at birth: The scope for policy intervention
    Journal of Econometrics, 1991, 50, (1-2), 205-228 View citations (33)
69. Who Receives Medical Care?: Income, Implicit Prices, and the Distribution of Medical Services among Pregnant Women in the United States
    Journal of Human Resources, 1991, 26, (3), 473-508 View citations (14)

1990

70. Estimating the Intrahousehold Incidence of Illness: Child Health and Gender-Inequality in the Allocation of Time
    International Economic Review, 1990, 31, (4), 969-80 View citations (81)
71. Population Growth and Human Capital Investments: Theory and Evidence
    Journal of Political Economy, 1990, 98, (5), S38-70 View citations (102)
72. Productivity, Health, and Inequality in the Intrahousehold Distribution of Food in Low-Income Countries
    American Economic Review, 1990, 80, (5), 1139-56 View citations (204)
    See also Working Paper (1989)
73. Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants: Comment
    American Economic Review, 1990, 80, (1), 298-304 View citations (32)

1989

74. Consumption Smoothing, Migration, and Marriage: Evidence from Rural India
    Journal of Political Economy, 1989, 97, (4), 905-26 View citations (562)
    See also Working Paper (1987)
75. Schooling, Information and Nonmarket Productivity: Contraceptive Use and Its Effectiveness
    International Economic Review, 1989, 30, (2), 457-77 View citations (104)

1988

76. Heterogeneity, Intrafamily Distribution, and Child Health
    Journal of Human Resources, 1988, 23, (4), 437-461 View citations (81)
    See also Working Paper (1984)
77. Human capital, population growth, and economic development: Beyond correlations
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 1988, 10, (1), 83-111 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper (1987)
78. Migration selectivity and the effects of public programs
    Journal of Public Economics, 1988, 37, (3), 265-289 View citations (53)
    See also Working Paper (1984)
79. Risk, Implicit Contracts and the Family in Rural Areas of Low-income Countries
    Economic Journal, 1988, 98, (393), 1148-70 View citations (322)
    See also Working Paper (1986)
80. Risk, Private Information, and the Family
    American Economic Review, 1988, 78, (2), 245-50 View citations (38)
81. The Stability of Household Production Technology: A Replication
    Journal of Human Resources, 1988, 23, (4), 535-549 View citations (28)

1987

82. Fertility and investments in human capital: Estimates of the consequence of imperfect fertility control in Malaysia
    Journal of Econometrics, 1987, 36, (1-2), 163-184 View citations (55)
    See also Working Paper (1987)

1986

83. Birth Spacing and Sibling Inequality: Asymmetric Information within the Family
    International Economic Review, 1986, 27, (1), 55-76 View citations (30)
84. Evaluating the Effects of Optimally Distributed Public Programs: ChildHealth and Family Planning Interventions
    American Economic Review, 1986, 76, (3), 470-82 View citations (153)
85. Family reunification and the immigration multiplier: U.S. immigration law, origin-country conditions, and the reproduction of immigrants
    Demography, 1986, 23, (3), 291-311 View citations (33)
86. Program interventions, intrahousehold distribution and the welfare of individuals: Modelling household behavior
    World Development, 1986, 14, (2), 233-243 View citations (13)

1985

87. Health and Nutrient Consumption across and within Farm Households
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1985, 67, (2), 212-23 View citations (73)
88. Specific Experience, Household Structure, and Intergenerational Transfers: Farm Family Land and Labor Arrangements in Developing Countries
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1985, 100, (Supplement), 961-987 View citations (156)
    See also Working Paper (1984)
89. The Demand for and Supply of Births: Fertility and Its Life Cycle Consequences
    American Economic Review, 1985, 75, (5), 992-1015 View citations (114)
    See also Working Paper (1984)

1984

90. Market Opportunities, Genetic Endowments, and Intrafamily Resource Distribution: Reply
    American Economic Review, 1984, 74, (3), 521-22 View citations (14)
91. Schooling, Search, and Spouse Selection: Testing Economic Theories of Marriage and Household Behavior
    Journal of Political Economy, 1984, 92, (4), 712-32 View citations (81)

1983

92. Consumer Demand and Household Production: The Relationship between Fertility and Child Mortality
    American Economic Review, 1983, 73, (2), 38-42 View citations (37)
93. Estimating a Household Production Function: Heterogeneity, the Demand for Health Inputs, and Their Effects on Birth Weight
    Journal of Political Economy, 1983, 91, (5), 723-46 View citations (103)

1982

94. Education and Contraceptive Choice: A Conditional Demand Framework
    International Economic Review, 1982, 23, (1), 171-98 View citations (10)
95. Educational Subsidy, Agricultural Development, and Fertility Change
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1982, 97, (1), 67-88 View citations (22)
96. Estimating the emigration rates of legal immigrants using administrative and survey data: The 1971 cohort of immigrants to the United States
    Demography, 1982, 19, (3), 279-290 View citations (83)
97. Governmental interventions and household behavior in a developing country: Anticipating the unanticipated consequences of social programs
    Journal of Development Economics, 1982, 10, (2), 209-225 View citations (31)
    See also Working Paper (1980)
98. Market Opportunities, Genetic Endowments, and Intrafamily Resource Distribution: Child Survival in Rural India
    American Economic Review, 1982, 72, (4), 803-15 View citations (315)

1980

99. Life-Cycle Labor Supply and Fertility: Causal Inferences from Household Models
    Journal of Political Economy, 1980, 88, (2), 328-48 View citations (179)
100. Neoclassical Theory and the Optimizing Peasant: An Econometric Analysis of Market Family Labor Supply in a Developing Country
     The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1980, 94, (1), 31-55 View citations (132)
101. Testing the Quantity-Quality Fertility Model: The Use of Twins as a Natural Experiment
     Econometrica, 1980, 48, (1), 227-40 View citations (393)

1978

102. Age, biological factors, and socioeconomic determinants of fertility: A new measure of cumulative fertility for use in the empirical analysis of family size
     Demography, 1978, 15, (4), 487-497 View citations (3)
103. Rural Wages, Labor Supply, and Land Reform: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
     American Economic Review, 1978, 68, (5), 847-61 View citations (46)

1977

104. Farm-Family Schooling Decisions: Determinants of the Quantity and Quality of Education in Agricultural Populations
     Journal of Human Resources, 1977, 12, (1), 71-91 View citations (8)
105. Fertility, Schooling, and the Economic Contribution of Children in Rural India: An Econometric Analysis
     Econometrica, 1977, 45, (5), 1065-79 View citations (188)
106. The Demand for Children in Farm Households
     Journal of Political Economy, 1977, 85, (1), 123-46 View citations (9)

1976

107. Female labor-force participation, occupational choice, and fertility in developing countries
     Journal of Development Economics, 1976, 3, (2), 141-160 View citations (15)
108. Female work experience, employment status, and birth expectations: Sequential decision-making in the Philippines
     Demography, 1976, 13, (3), 339-356 View citations (8)
109. Nonlinear Earnings Functions, Age, and Experience: A Nondogmatic Reply and Some Additional Evidence
     Journal of Human Resources, 1976, 11, (1), 23-27 View citations (9)
110. The Demand of Farm Families for the Quantity and Quality of Schooling for Their Children in the United States
     American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1976, 58, (5), 842-847 View citations (1)
     See also Working Paper (1976)
111. Wage Discrimination: A Comment
     Journal of Human Resources, 1976, 11, (1), 3-7 View citations (5)

1975

112. Comment on N. K. Namboodiri’s “which couples at given parities expect to have additional births? an exercise in discriminant analysis”
     Demography, 1975, 12, (4), 665-668 View citations (2)

Edited books

2010

1. Handbook of Development Economics, vol 5
   Handbook of Development Economics, Elsevier View citations (199)

1997

2. Handbook of Population and Family Economics, vol 1
   Handbook of Population and Family Economics, Elsevier View citations (308)

Chapters

2008

1. Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment
   Elsevier View citations (31)

2000

2. The Changing Skill of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants
   A chapter in Issues in the Economics of Immigration, 2000, pp 185-226 View citations (41)
   See also Working Paper (1998)

1993

3. Introduction: Population and family economics
   Chapter 01 in Handbook of Population and Family Economics, 1993, vol. 1, Part A, pp 1-17 View citations (1)

1988

4. Labor markets in low-income countries
   Chapter 15 in Handbook of Development Economics, 1988, vol. 1, pp 713-762 View citations (128)

1982

5. The Behavior of Mothers as Inputs to Child Health: The Determinants of Birth Weight, Gestation, and Rate of Fetal Growth
   A chapter in Economic Aspects of Health, 1982, pp 53-92 View citations (101)

Editor

1. Handbook of Population and Family Economics
   Elsevier
2. Handbook of Population and Family Economics
   Elsevier
3. Journal of Development Economics
   Elsevier