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Duke
University, Department of Economics 202 Social
Science Building P.O. Box 90097 Durham, NC, 27708
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Publications
o ``Growth
Reference Charts and the Nutritional Status of Indian Children"
(2008), Economics
and Human Biology, 6(3), 455-468.
o ``Using
Census and Survey Data to Estimate Poverty and Inequality for Small Areas", (March 2008), with Angus Deaton. Accepted for publication at the Review of Economics
and Statistics.
o ``Semiparametric
Efficiency in GMM Models with Auxiliary Data", with Xiaohong Chen and Han Hong. (2008). The
Annals of Statistics, 36(2), 808-843.
o A longer version with additional
results and more readable proofs for the semiparametric efficiency bounds can
be found here.
o ``Child
Nutrition in India in the Nineties"
(2007), with Aprajit Mahajan. Economic Development and
Cultural Change. 55(3), 441-486.
o ``Calculating
Comparable Statistics from Incomparable Surveys, with an Application to Poverty
in India" (2007). Journal of Business and Economic
Statistics, 25(3), 314-336.
o ``The Indian Public
Distribution System as Provider of Food Security: Evidence from Child Nutrition
in Andhra Pradesh," European Economic
Review, Volume 49, Issue 5, Pages 1305-1330 (July 2005).
Other Publications
o ``Commitment
Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-protecting Behavior: Preliminary Evidence
from Orissa (India)" (2009) (with Brian Blackburn, Aprajit Mahajan and Joanne Yoong). American
Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 99(2), 231-235.
o ``Prices and Poverty in
India," with Angus Deaton. now Chapter 16 in
Deaton and Kozel (2005), Data
and Dogma: The Great Indian Poverty Debate, New Delhi, Macmillan India.
Working Papers
o ``Can Census Data Alone
Signal Heterogeneity in the Estimation of Poverty Maps?" (April 2008),
Resubmitted to the Journal of Development Economics.
o ``Adjusting
to Trade Policy: Evidence from U.S. Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Catfish"
(October 2008). With Irene Brambilla
and Guido Porto. Revise
and Resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics.
o ``Microcredit, Family
Planning Programs and Contraceptive Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment
in Ethiopia" (October 2009), with Jaikishan
Desai. BREAD Working Paper No. 247, Resubmitted to Demography.
o ``Bednets, Information and
Malaria in Orissa" (June 2009), with Brian Blackburn, Aprajit Mahajan and Joanne Yoong. BREAD
Working Paper No. 211.
o ``Subjective
Risk Assessment and Reactions to Health-related Information: Evidence from
Bangladesh" (October 2009), with Lori Bennear,
Soumya
Balasubramanya and Alex Pfaff. Draft
available upon request.
o ``Bright Lines, Risk Beliefs, and Risk
Avoidance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Bangladesh" (October
2009), with Lori Bennear,
Soumya
Balasubramanya and Alex Pfaff. Draft
available upon request.
Work in Progress (all with very provisional
titles. More specific information upon request)
o ``Time
Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption: The case of Insecticide
Treated Nets," with Aprajit Mahajan.
o ``Fighting
Malaria with Microfinance: Evidence from Orissa (India)", with Brian Blackburn, Aprajit Mahajan and Joanne Yoong.
o ``Health-related
Information and Demand for Health Care: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled
Trial in Orissa (India)", with Brian Blackburn, Aprajit Mahajan, Joanne Yoong and Eddie Zhang.
o ``Lymphatic
Filariasis in Orissa, India: Expanded Endemic Range and A Call to Re-evaluate
Targeting of Mass Drug Administration Programs", with Brian Blackburn, Patricia Foo, Aprajit Mahajan and Joanne Yoong.
o ``Self-assessments
of Socio-Economic Status and Forecasts about the Future: New Evidence from
Indonesia", with Maria Genoni
and Duncan Thomas.
o ``On the
Impact of Microcredit: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in
Ethiopia", with Jaikishan
Desai and Kristin
Johnson.