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Research Program in Development Studies

Working Papers

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Selected working papers are highlighted in Research Briefs:

Date Author(s) Title of Paper Publication Information Paper No.
11/09 A. Deaton and O. Dupriez Purchasing power parity exchange rates for the global poor    
11/09 A. Deaton and A. Heston Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts NBER Working Paper No. 14499 (new version, original Nov. 2008)  
03/09 A. Case and C. Paxson The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: Evidence from demographic health surveys NBER Working Paper No. 15000, forthcoming, Demography  
01/09 A. Deaton Instruments of development: randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development Keynes Lecture, British Academy, October 9, 2008  
12/08 A. Deaton, J. Fortson, and R. Tortora Life (evaluation), HIV/AIDS, and death in Africa    
11/08 A. Deaton Maximum Prophet: Review of Common Wealth, by Jeff Sachs, and Reinventing Foreign Aid, by Bill Easterly The Lancet, November 2008  
10/08 A. Deaton, C. Bozzoli, and C. Quintana-Domeque Adult height and childhood disease October 2008, forthcoming Demography  
05/08 A. Case,
C. Paxson, and
M. Islam
Making Sense of the Labor Market Height Premium: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey May 2008, NBER Working Paper: 14007  
04/08 A. Deaton, and
J. Drèze
Nutrition in India: Facts and Interpretations April 2008  
02/08 A. Case and
C. Paxson
Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages May 2008, American Economic Review, vol. 98, iss. 2, pp. 463-467  
01/08 C. Ardington,
A. Case and
V. Hosegood
Labor supply responses to large social transfers: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa May 2008, American Economic Review, vol. 98, iss. 2, 468-474  
01/08 A. Deaton Height, health, and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India May 2008, American Economic Review, vol. 98, iss. 2, pp. 468-474  
01/08 A. Deaton Price trends in India and their implications for measuring poverty Economic and Political Weekly, February 9, 2008, v. 43, iss. 6, pp. 43-49  
01/08 A. Case and
C. Paxson
Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages May 2008, American Economic Review, vol. 98, iss. 2, pp. 463-467  
01/08 A. Case and
C. Paxson
Additional Materials for “Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages” May 2008, American Economic Review, vol. 98, iss. 2, pp. 463-467  
10/07 A. Case,
D. Lee and
C. Paxson
The Income Gradient In Children's Health: A Comment On Currie, Shields And Wheatley Price NBER WP 13495, Oct 2007, Journal of Health Economics, , v. 27, iss. 3, pp. 801-807  
10/07 A. Case and
A. Menendez
Sex Differences In Obesity Rates In Poor Countries: Evidence From South Africa October 2007, NBER Working Paper: 13541  
10/07 C. Ardington,
A. Case and
V. Hosegood
Labor supply responses to large social transfers: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa September 2007, NBER Working Paper: 13442  
9/07 A. Deaton Height, health, and development Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August, 2007, v.104 iss. 33, pp. 13232 - 13237  
8/07 A. Deaton Income, aging, health and wellbeing around the world: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2008  
6/07 A. Tarozzi and
A. Deaton
Using Census and Survey Data to Estimate Poverty and Inequality for Small Areas Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming  
3/07 C. Bozzoli,
A. Deaton and
C. Quintana-Domeque
Child mortality, income and adult height

March 2007, replaced by Adult height and childhood disease, October 2008, above

 
9/06 A. Deaton Global patterns of income and health: facts, interpretations, and policies WIDER Annual Lecture, Helsinki, September 2006  
9/06 A. Deaton Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates for the Poor: Using Household Surveys to Construct PPPs September 2006  
8/06 A. Case and
C. Paxson
Stature and status: Height, ability, and labor market outcomes Journal of Political Econony 116(3), June 2008  
5/06 A. Case,
C. Paxson and
T. Vogl
Socioeconomic Status and Health in Childhood: A Comment on Chen, Martin and Matthews NBER Working Paper 12267, Forthcoming. Social Science & Medicine, 2006  
1/06 A. Case and
A. Deaton
Health and Wellbeing in Udaipur and South Africa Forthcoming, Developments in the Economics of Aging, David Wise, editor, University of Chicago Press, 2006  
12/05 D. Cutler,
A. Deaton and
A. Lleras-Muney
The Determinants of Mortality Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20(3), Summer 2006  
8/05 A. Deaton and V. Kozel Data and Dogma: The Great Indian Poverty Debate The World Bank Research Observer, August 2005 231
4/05 A. Case, A. Menendez, C. Ardington Health Seeking Behavior in Northern KwaZulu-Natal   238
4/05 A. Deaton The Great Escape: A Review Essay on Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 Journal of Economic Literature, XLIV (March), 2006 237
3/05 C. Paxson and N. Schady Cognitive Development Among Young Children in Ecuador: The Roles of Wealth, Health and Parenting   236
12/04 C. Paxson and N. Schady Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru   235
12/04 A. Case, V. Hosegood, and F. Lund The Reach and Impact of Child Support Grants: Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal  Development Southern Africa, October 2005,
22(4), 467-482
234
02/06 A. Case and C. Ardington The Impact of Parental Death on School Enrollment and Achievement: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa   233
12/04 A. Deaton and A. Case Health and Wealth Among the Poor: India and South Africa Compared American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2005; Revised 4/05 232
7/04 A. Deaton Measuring Poverty   230
4/04 A. Case and C. Paxson Sex Differences in Morbidity & Mortality Demography, May 2005,
v. 42(2), pp. 189-214
229 
4/04 A. Deaton Health in an Age of Globalization  Brookings Trade Forum, April 2004; Revised 7/04 228
2/04 A. Deaton, J. Friedman, and V. Alatas Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates from Household Survey Data Revised 5/04 227
1/04 A. Case, I. Le Roux, and A. Menendez Medical Compliance and Income-Health Gradients American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2004, v. 94, iss. 2, pp. 331-335. 226
12/03 A. Banerjee, A. Deaton, E. Duflo Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan American Economic Review, May 2004 225 
10/03 A. Case, V. Hosegood, and F. Lund The Reach of the South African Child Support Grant: Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal Revised 12/03 224
8/03 A. Deaton Regional Poverty Estimates for India, 1999-2000   223
6/03 A. Deaton "Measuring Poverty in a Growing World" (or "Measuring Growth in a Poor World") July 2003, NBER Working Paper: 9822; Revised 2/04 222
2/03  A. Deaton "How to monitor poverty for the Millennium Development Goals" Journal of Human Development, 2003, v. 4, iss. 3, pp. 353-378 221
11/02 E. Field "Entitled to Work: Urban Property Rights and Labor Supply in Peru"   220 
11/02 D. Karlan "Social Capital and Group Banking"   219
11/02 D. Karlan "Using Experimental
Economics to Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial Decisions"
  218
7/02 A. Case, C. Paxson, and J. Ableidinger "Orphans in Africa: Parental Death, Poverty, and School Enrollment" Demography, August 2004, v. 41, iss. 3, pp. 483-508 217
10/01 K. Anderson, A. Case, and D. Lam "Causes and Consequences of Schooling Outcomes in South Africa: Evidence from Survey Data" Social Dynamics, 2001, v. 27, iss. 1, pp. 37-59 216
7/02 A. Deaton and J. Dreze "Poverty and Inequality in India: a Reexamination" Economic and Political Weekly, September 7, 2002, pp. 3729-3748 215
5/02 A. Tarozzi "The Indian Public Distribution System as Provider of Public Security: Evidence from Child Anthropometry in Andhra Pradesh"   214
5/02 A. Tarozzi "Estimating Comparable Poverty Counts from Incomparable Surveys: Measuring Poverty in India"   213
7/02 A. Case and A. Deaton "Consumption, Health, Gender, & Poverty"   212
2/98 J. Morduch "Does Microfinance Really Help the Poor? New Evidence of Flagship Programs in Bangladesh"   211
12/01 A. Deaton "Prices and poverty in India,
1987-2000"
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 25, 2003, pp. 362-368 210
11/01 A. Deaton "Adjusted Indian poverty estimates for 1999-2000" Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 25, 2003, pp. 322-326 209
6/02 A. Deaton and G. Laroque "A model of commodity prices after Sir Arthur Lewis" Journal of Development Economics, August 2003, v. 71, iss. 2, pp. 289-310 208
5/02 C. Paxson Comment on Krueger and Maleckova, “Education, Poverty, Political Violence and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?”   207
2/02 A. Deaton and D. Lubotsky

"Mortality, Inequality and Race in American Cities and States"

Addendum

Social Science and Medicine, v. 56, iss. 6, pp. 1139-1153 205
8/01 A. Case "Does Money Protect Health Status? Evidence from South African Pensions" October 2001, pp. 17, NBER Working Paper: 8495 204
6/01 A. Case "The Primacy of Education" Revised 7/04 203
5/01 A. Case "Health, Income and Economic Development" Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 2001/2002, pp. 221-241 202
4/01 J. Vere "Education, Technology and the Wage Structure in Taiwan, 1979-1998"   201
8/02 A. Deaton "Health, Inequality, and Economic Development" Journal of Economic Literature, March 2003, v. 41, iss. 1, pp. 113-58 200
2/01 M. Rozada and A. Menendez "Public University in Argentina: Subsidizing the Rich" Economics of Education Review, August 2002, v. 21, iss. 4, pp. 341-51 199
2/01 M. Wittenberg "Conflictual Intra-household Allocations"   198
8/00 A. Deaton "Counting the World's Poor: Problems and Possible Solutions" World Bank Research Observer, Fall 2001, v. 16, iss. 2, pp. 125-47 197
8/00 A. Deaton and A. Tarozzi "Prices and Poverty in India"   196
8/00 D. Lubotsky  "Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings"  August 2000, pp. 39, Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section Working Paper: 445 195
6/00 D. Clark and C. Hsieh "Schooling and Labor Market Impact of the 1968 Nine-Year Education Program in Taiwan"   194
1/00 M. Gonzalez and A. Menendez "The Effect of Unemployment on Labor Earnings Inequality: Argentina in the Nineties" Economics of Education Review, August 2002, v. 21, iss. 4, pp. 341-51 193
10/99 A. Deaton and S. Zaidi "Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis" 2002, pp. xi, 104, Living Standards Measurement Study Working Paper, no. 135. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank 192
9/99 A. Deaton and M. Grosh "Consumption" Grosh and Glewwe (eds.), Designing Household Survey Questionnaires for Developing Countries: Lessons from Ten Years of LSMS Experience, 2000, Chapter 5, pp. 91-133 191
9/99 A. Case and M. Yogo "Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Schools in South Africa" October 1999, pp. 23,
NBER Working Paper : 7399
190
7/99 J. Baraka "Does Type of Degree Explain Taiwan's Gender Gap?"   189
7/99 J. Baraka "The Gap Remains: Gender and Earnings in Taiwan"   188
7/99 J. Baraka "Returns to Education in Taiwan: A Cross-Sectional and Cohort Analysis"   187
12/98 A. Deaton "Commodity Prices and Growth in Africa" Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999, v. 13, iss. 3, pp. 23-40 186
12/98
4/99
A. Deaton and G. Laroque "Housing, Land Prices, and the Link between Growth and Saving" Journal of Economic Growth, June 2001, v. 6, iss. 2, pp. 87-105 185
11/98 A. Case "Income Distribution and Expenditure Patterns in South Africa"   184
05/98 A. Deaton and C. Paxson "Growth, Demographic Structure and National Saving in Taiwan" Population and Development Review, Supplement 2000, v. 26, iss. 0, pp. 141-73 183 
02/98 A. Deaton and C. Paxson "Saving and Growth Among Individuals and Households" (previously named "Saving and Growth: Another Look at the Cohort Evidence") Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2000, v. 82, iss. 2, pp. 212-25 182
01/98 A. Deaton and C. Paxson "Aging and Inequality in Income and Health" American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1998, v. 88, iss. 2, pp. 248-53 181
11/97 A. Deaton "Saving and Growth" Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Luis Servén (eds.), The Economics of Saving and Growth: Theory, evidence and implications for policy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, Chapter 3, pp. 33-70 180
11/97 A. Deaton and C. Paxson

"Poverty Among Children and the Elderly in Developing Countries"

Figures

  179
11/97 A. Deaton and C. Paxson "Economies of Scale, Household Size, and the Demand for Food" Journal of Political Economy, October 1998, v. 106, iss. 5, pp. 897-930
 
178
04/97 A. Case

"Election Goals and Income Redistribution: Recent Evidence from Albania"

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European Economic Review, 45, March 2001, v. 45, iss. 3, pp. 405-423 177
04/96 A. Case and A. Deaton "Large Cash Transfers to the Elderly in South Africa" Economic Journal, September 1998, v. 108, iss. 450, pp. 1330-1361 176
01/95 A. Deaton and
C. Paxson

“Saving, Inequality and Aging: An East Asian Perspective”

Asia-Pacific Economic Review, (inaugural issue) 1995, v. 1, iss. 1, pp. 7-19  
05/94 A. Deaton and S. Subramanian "The Demand for Food and Calories" Journal of Political Economy, February 199, v. 104, iss. 1, pp. 133-162 175
05/94 T. Besley and A. Case "Diffusion as a Learning Process: Evidence From HYV Cotton"   174
04/94 S. Chaudhuri and C. Paxson "Smoothing Consumption Under Seasonality: Buffer Stocks vs. Credit Markets"   173
08/93 A. Deaton "Data and Econometric Tools for Development Analysis" In J. Behrman and T.N. Srinivasan (eds.), Handbook of Development Economics, North-Holland: Amsterdam and New York, 3A, 1995, pp. 1785-1882 172
07/93 T. Besley "The Role of Informal Finance in Household Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Taiwan" Economic Journal, January 1996, v. 106, iss. 434, pp. 39-59 171
04/93 T. Besley "Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Micro-evidence from Ghana" Journal of Political Economy, October 1995, v. 103, iss. 5, pp. 903-37 170 
03/93 T. Guinnane and R. Miller "The Limits to Land Reform: The Land Acts in Ireland, 1870-1909" Economic Development and Cultural Change, April 1997, v. 45, iss. 3, pp. 591-612 169
02/93 A. Deaton and C. Paxson "Intertemporal Choice and Inequality" Journal of Political Economy, 1994, v. 102, iss. 3, pp. 437-467 168
02/93 T. Besley "Savings, Credit and Insurance" Handbook of development economics. Volume 3A, 1995, pp. 2123-2207, Handbooks in Economics, vol. 9. Amsterdam; New York and Oxford: Elsevier Science, North Holland,
 
167
12/92 A. Deaton "International Commodity Prices, Macroeconomic Performance, and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa" Princeton Studies in International Finance, 79, Princeton, NJ; Princeton University; International Finance Section 166
11/92 T. Guinnane "A Failed Institutional Transplant: Raiffeisen's Credit Cooperatives in Ireland, 1894-1914"  Explorations in Economic History, January 1994, v. 31, iss. 1, pp. 38-61 165
07/92 H. Alderman and C. Paxson "Do the Poor Insure? A Synthesis of the Literature on Risk and Consumption in Developing Countries" In Bacha (ed.) Economics in a Changing World: Volume 4: Development, Trade and the Environment, London: MacMillan Press, 1994 164
07/92 T. Besley, S. Coate, and G. Loury "On the Allocative Performance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations" Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1994, v. 109, iss. 2, pp. 491-515 163
07/92 T. Besley "How Do Market Failures Justify Interventions in Rural Credit Markets?" World Bank Research Observer, 9(1), January 1994, 22-47 162
06/92 A. Deaton and C. Paxson "Saving, Growth, and Aging in Taiwan" In D. Wise (ed.) Studies in the Economics of Aging, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp. 331-357 161
07/92 A. Banerjee, T. Besley, and T. Guinnane "Thy Neighbor's Keeper: The Design of a Credit Cooperative with Theory and a Test"   160
05/92 T. Besley "Monopsony and Time-Consistency: Sustainable Pricing Policies for Perennial Crops" Review of Development Economics, February 1997, v. 1, iss. 1, pp. 57-70 159
03/92 T. Guinnane and R. Miller "Bonds without Bondsmen: Tenant-Right in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" Journal of Economic History, March 1996, v. 56, iss. 1, pp. 113-42 158
01/92 T. Besley, S. Coate, and G. Loury "The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations" American Economic Review, September 1993, v. 83, iss. 4, pp. 792-810 157
01/92 A. Deaton "Saving and Income Smoothing in Côte d'Ivoire" Journal of African Economies, 1992, v. 1, iss. 1, pp. 1-24 156
11/91 J. Hoddinott and L. Haddad "Household Expenditures, Child Anthropometric Status and the Intrahousehold Division of Income: Evidence from the Côte d'Ivoire"   155
11/91 A. Deaton and G. Laroque "Estimating the Commodity Price Model" November 1991, pp. 40, ENSAE/INSEE Unite de Recherche Document de Travail: 9131 154
08/91 A. Deaton "Household Saving in LDC's: Credit Markets, Insurance, and Welfare" Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 94(2), 1992, 253-273 153
06/91 T. Besley and S. Coate "Group Lending, Repayment Incentives and Social Collateral" Journal of Development Economics, February 1995, v. 46, iss. 1, pp. 1-18 152
02/91 A. Deaton and F. Grimard "Demand Analysis for Tax Reform in Pakistan"   151
01/91 C. Paxson "Consumption and Income Seasonality in Thailand" Journal of Political Economy, February 1993, v. 101, iss. 1, pp. 39-72 150
05/90 T. Besley, S. Coate, and G. Loury "The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations" American Economic Review, September 1993, v. 83, iss. 4, pp. 792-810 149
05/90 A. Deaton and C. Paxson "Patterns of Aging in Thailand and Côte d'Ivoire" In D. Wise (ed.), Topics in the Economics of Aging, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, pp. 163-206 148
04/90 A. Deaton and S. Subramanian "Gender Effects in Indian Consumption Patterns" Sarvekshana, 1991, v. 14, iss. 4, pp. 1-12 147
10/89 T. Besley "Targeting Taxes and Transfers: Administrative Costs and Policy Design in Developing Economies" The economics of rural organization: Theory, practice, and policy., 1993, pp. 374-405, Oxford; New York; Toronto and Melbourne: Oxford University Press for the World Bank 146
07/89 A. Deaton and G. Laroque "On the Behavior of Commodity Prices" Review of Economic Studies, January 1992, v. 59, iss. 1, pp. 1-23 145
03/89 A. Deaton "Saving in Developing Countries: Theory and Review" World Bank Economic Review, Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics, 1989, pp. 61-96 144
12/88 J. Azam and T. Besley "General Equilibrium with Parallel Markets for Goods and Foreign Exchange: Theory and Application to Ghana" World Development, December 1989, v. 17, iss. 12, pp. 1921-30 143
10/88 T. Besley and S. Coate "Workfare versus Welfare Incentive Arguments for Work Requirements in Poverty-Alleviation Programs" American Economic Review, March 1992, v. 82, iss. 1, pp. 249-61 142
11/88 H. Jacoby "A Shadow Wage Approach to Estimating a Labor Supply Model for Peasant Households: An Application to the Peruvian Sierra" Dissertion 1989 141
11/88 D. Benjamin "Household Composition, Labor Markets, and Labor Demand: Testing for Separation in Agricultural Household Models" Econometrica, March 1992, v. 60, iss. 2, pp. 287-322 140
07/88 A. Deaton "Household Survey Data and Pricing Policies in Developing Countries"
(formerly "New Approaches to Household Survey Data from Developing Countries")
World Bank Economic Review, 1989, v. 3, iss. 2, pp. 183-210 139
05/88 A. Deaton "Price Elasticities from Survey Data: Extensions and Indonesian Results" Journal of Econometrics, 1990, v. 44, pp. 281-309 138
02/88 C. Paxson "Using Weather Variability to Estimate the Response of Savings to Transitory Income in Thailand"
(formerly "Household Savings in Thailand: Responses to Income Shocks")
American Economic Review, March 1992, v. 82, iss. 1, pp. 15-33 137
02/88 A. Deaton  "Agricultural Pricing Policies and Demand Patterns in Thailand" Published under the title "Rice Prices and Income Distribution in Thailand: A Non-parametric Analysis," Economic Journal, Supplement 1989, v. 99, iss. 395, pp. 1-37 136