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GRADUATE FIELDS:
Applied Economics and Management
Economics
International Development
Nutrition
Policy Analysis & Management
FACULTY FELLOW:
Institute of Social Sciences
Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility Theme Project Team, 2008-2011
DIVISION OF NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
CORNELL FOOD AND NUTRITION POLICY PROGRAM (CFNPP)
STRATEGIES AND ANALYSES FOR GROWTH AND ACCESS (SAGA)
IMPROVED POLICY ANALYSIS FOR ECONOMIC DECISION-MAKING (ILO)
CURRICULUM VITA
COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
"Measuring Intra-Household Inequality: Explorations Using the Body Mass Index," Health Economics Forthcoming (co-author: Stephen D. Younger).
"Weights on the Rise: Where and for Whom?" Journal of Economic Inequality Forthcoming.
"Living Standards in Africa." In Debates in the Measurement of Global Inequality, edited by Sudhir Anand, Paul Segal, and Joseph E. Stiglitz. Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, 2008 (co-author: Stephen D. Younger).
"Cognitive Skills among Children in Senegal: Disentangling the Roles of Schooling and Family Background," Economics of Education Review Forthcoming (co-author: Peter Glick).
"Are Africans Practicing Safer Sex: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys for Eight Countries," Economic Development and Cultural Change 56(2):397-439, January, 2008 (co-author: Peter Glick).
"Explaining Stunting in Nineteenth Century France," 2006. Prepared for the Third International Conference on Economics and Human Biology Conference, Strasbourg, France, June 22-24, 2006 (co-author: Gilles Postel-Vinay).
"The Joint Demand for Health Care, Leisure, and Commodities: Implications for Health Care Finance and Access in Vietnam," Journal of Development Studies 43(8):1475-1500, November 2007 (co-authors: Chad D. Meyerhoefer and Stephen D. Younger).
"Estimating the Consequences of Unintended Fertility for Child Health and Education in Romania: An Analysis Using Twins Data," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 69(5): 667-691, October, 2007 (co-authors: Peter J. Glick and Alessandra Marini).
"Changes in HIV/AIDS Knowledge And Testing Behavior In Africa: How Much and for Whom?" Journal of Population Economics 20(2):383-422, April 2007 (co-author: Peter Glick).
"Changes in Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Looking Beyond Income," Journal of Applied Economics IX(2):215-234, November, 2006 (co-author: Stephen D. Younger).
"Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons," Economic Journal 116(514):943-968, 2006 (co-authors: Jean-Yves Duclos and Stephen Younger).
"The Demand for Primary Schooling in Madagascar: Price, Quality, and the Choice between Public and Private Providers," Journal of Development Economics 79(1):118-145, 2006 (co-author: Peter Glick).
"Consistent Estimation of Panel Censored Demand Systems," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87(3):660-672, 2005. (co-authors: Chad Meyerhoefer and Christine R. Ranney).
"Improvements in Children’s Health: Does Inequality Matter?" Journal of Economic Inequality 3(2):125-143, 2005 (co-author: Stephen D. Younger).
"Intertemporal Female Labor Force Behavior in a Developing Country: What Can We Learn from a Limited Panel?" Labour Economics 12(1):23-45, 2005 (co-author: Peter Glick).
"Socioeconomic Determinants of Children’s Health in Russia: A Longitudinal Study" Economic Development and Cultural Change 53(2):479-500, 2005 (co-author: Leonid Federov).
"Child Allowances and Allocative Decisions in Romania Households," Applied Economics 36(14), 2004 (co-author: Ari Gerstle).
"Exploring Alternative Measures of Welfare in the Absence of Expenditure Data," Review of Income and Wealth 49(4):463-489, 2003 (co-author: David C. Stifel).
"Decomposing World Health Inequality," Journal of Health Economics 22(2):271-293, 2003 (co-authors: Menno Pradhan and Stephen Younger).
"The Demand for Health Care Services in Rural Tanzania," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 65(2):241-260, 2003 (co-authors: Stephen D. Younger and Garance Genicot).
COURSES:
| ECON 694/ AEM 694/NS 699: |
Poverty and Well-Being in Africa Team taught with Chris Barrett, Ravi Kanbur, and Stephen Younger |
| NS 457: | Health, Poverty and Inequality: A Global Perspective |
| NS 457/ECON 474: | Economics of Hunger and Malnutrition |
| ECON 771 |
Empirical Methods for the Analysis of Household Survey Data:
Applications to Health, Education and Poverty |
Last updated 22 August 2008