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Date Author(s) Title Publication Information
01/10 A. Deaton Price indexes, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty forthcoming, American Economic Review, March 2010
11/09 A. Deaton and O. Dupriez Purchasing power parity exchange rates for the global poor  
11/09 A. Deaton and A. Heston Understanding PPPsand PPP-based national accounts NBER Working Paper No. 14499 (new version, original version Nov. 2008)
11/09 A. Deaton Are economists human? The Lancet, 374, Nov. 7, 2009
08/09 A. Deaton Aging, religion and health August 2009
06/09 A. Deaton and O. Dupriez Global Poverty and Global Price Indexes  
07/09 A. Deaton and R. Arora Life at the top: the benefits of height Economics and Human Biology, Vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 133-136, July 2009
1/09 A. Deaton Instruments of development: Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development Proceedings of the British Academy, 2008 Lectures, Vol. 162, Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp 123-160
1/09 A. Deaton The World Development Report at Thirty: A Birthday Tribute or A Funeral Elegy? Commentary on S. Yusuf, Development economics through the decades, Washington DC, The World Bank
2009 A. Deaton and D. Lubotsky Income inequality and mortality in U.S. cities: Weighing the evidence. A response to Ash. Social Science and Medicine, 68 (2009) 1914-1917
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 1, 2008,
10/08 A. Deaton, C. Bozzoli and C. Quintana-Domeque Adult height and childhood disease October 2008, Forthcoming Demography
4/08 A. Deaton and Jean Drèze Food and Nutrition in India: Facts and Interpretations Economic and Political Weekly, v. 44, no. 7, pp. 42-65
1/08 A. Deaton Height, health, and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India

American Economic Review, May 2008 
1/08 A. Deaton Price trends in India and their implications for measuring poverty

Economic and Political Weekly, February 9, 2008
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 Prespectives, 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
09/06 A. Deaton, A. Banerjee, N. Lustig, and K. Rogoff An Evaluation of World Bank Research, 1998-2005 Published by the World Bank, September 24, 2006
9/06 A. Deaton Equity and population health The Hastings Center Report, Sept-Oct 2006, vol. 35, pp. 5-6
9/06 A. Deaton Global patterns of income and health: facts, interpretations, and policies WIDER Annual Lecture, Helsinki, September 2006
9/06 A. Deaton STONE, JOHN RICHARD NICHOLAS (1913-1991) New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition, 2008
8/06 A. Deaton Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates for the Poor: Using Household Surveys to Construct PPPs August 2006
7/06 A. Deaton Evidence-based aid must not become the latest in a long string of development fads The Boston Review, New Democracy Forum, Jul/Aug 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
12/05 A. Deaton and C. Paxson Engel's What? A response to Gan and Vernon Journal of Political Economy, 111(6), 2003, ppg. 1378-1381
8/05 A. Deaton and
V. Kozel 		Data and Dogma: The Great Indian Poverty Debate The World Bank Research Observer, August, 2005
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
3/05 A. Deaton Franco Modigliani and the Life Cycle Theory of Consumption Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, June-Sep 2005, v. 58, iss. (233-234), pp 91-107
2005 A. Deaton and A. Tarozzi Prices and Poverty in India Chapter 16 in The great Indian poverty debate, New Delhi, India, MacMillan, 2005, pp. 381-411
12/04 A. Case and A. Deaton Health and Wealth Among the Poor: India and South Africa Compared American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2005; Revised 4/05
7/04 A. Deaton Measuring Poverty In Abhijit Banerjee, Roland Benabou, and Dilip Mookerjee (eds.), Understanding Poverty, Oxford University Press, 2006.
4/04 A. Deaton Health in an Age of Globalization Brookings Trade Forum, edited by Susan Collins and Carol Graham, Washington DC. The Brookings Institute, 2004
2/04 A. Banerjee, A. Deaton, and E. Duflo Health Care Delivery in Rural Rajasthan Economic and Political Weekly, February 28, 2004, v. 39, iss. 9, pp. 944-949
2/04 A. Deaton, J. Friedman, and V. Alatas Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates from Household Survey Data: India and Indonesia Revised 5/04
2004 A. Deaton and C. Paxson Mortality, income, and income inequality over time in Britain and the United States In David A. Wise (ed.), Perspectives on the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press for NBER, Chapter 6, pp. 247-280
12/03 A. Banerjee, A. Deaton, and E. Duflo Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan American Economic Review, May 2004, v. 94, iss. 2, pp. 326-330
8/03 A. Deaton Regional Poverty Estimates for India, 1999-2000  
6/03 A. Deaton Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World) Review of Economic Statistics, Vol 87(1), pp1-19, February 2005
6/03 A. Case and A. Deaton Broken Down by Work and Sex: How Our Health Declines Chapter 6 in David A. Wise (ed.), Analyses in the Economics of Aging, Chicago University Press for NBER, v. 10
03/03 A. Deaton Health, Inequality, and Economic Development Journal of Economic Literature, March 2003, v. 41, iss. 1, pp. 113-158
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
1/03 A. Deaton Prices and Poverty in India, 1987-2000 Economic and Political Weekly, January 25, 2003, pp. 362-368
2002 A. Deaton, P. Gourinchas,
and C. Paxson		 Social Security and Inequality over the Life Cycle Chapter 4 In Martin Feldstein and Jeff Leibman (eds.), The Distributional Effects of Social Security Reform, Chicago University Press for NBER, 2002, pp. 115-148
9/02 A. Deaton and J. Dreze Poverty and Inequality in India: a Reexamination Economic and Political Weekly, September 7, 2002, pp. 3729-3748
7/02 A. Deaton and A. Case Consumption, Health, Gender, and Poverty June 2002
6/02 A. Deaton Is World Poverty Falling? Finance and Development: A Quarterly Magazine of the IMF, June 2002, v. 39, iss. 2
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
4/02 A. Deaton Policy Implications of the Gradient of Health and Wealth Health Affairs, March/April 2002, v. 21, iss. 2, pp. 13-30
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
2002 A. Deaton and S. Zaidi Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis The World Bank, Washington, DC, 2002 (Spanish version: Directrices para construir agregados de consumo para analizar el bienestar; also in Russian)
11/01 A. Deaton Adjusted Indian Poverty Estimates for 1999-2000 Economic and Political Weekly, January 25, 2003, pp. 322-326
10/01 A. Deaton and C. Paxson Mortality, Income, and Income Inequality Over Time in Britain and the United States October 2001, NBER Working Paper: 8534; in David Wise (ed.), Perspectives on the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press for NBER, 427-480
9/01 A. Deaton Counting the World's Poor: Problems and Possible Solutions World Bank Research Observer, Fall 2001, v. 16, iss. 2, pp. 125-147
6/01 A. Deaton and G. Laroque Housing, Land Prices, and Growth Journal of Economic Growth, June 2001, v. 6, iss. 2, pp. 87-105
5/01 A. Deaton Relative Deprivation, Inequality, and Mortality  
2000 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
2000 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
7/00 A. Deaton and A. Tarozzi Prices and Poverty in India in Angus Deaton and Valerie Kozel (eds.), Data and Dogma: The Great Indian Poverty Debate, New Delhi, India. MacMillian.
5/00 A. Deaton and C. Paxson Growth and Saving 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
1999 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
10/99 A. Deaton and S. Zaidi Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis 2002, Living Standards Measurement Study Working Paper: 135. v. 104, pp. xi, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank
8/99 A. Case and A. Deaton School Inputs and Educational Outcomes in South Africa Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1999, v. 114, iss. 3, pp. 1047-84
6/99 A. Deaton Commodity Prices and Growth in Africa Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999, v. 13, iss. 3, pp. 23-40
5/99 A. Deaton Inequalities in Income and Inequalities in Health “Inequalities in income and inequalities in health,” in Finis Welch, editor, The causes and consequences of increasing inequality, Chicago University Press, 2001, 285–313.
5/99 A. Deaton and C. Paxson Mortality, Education, Income and Inequality Among American Cohorts In D. Wise (ed.), Themes in the Economics of Aging, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001
12/98 A. Deaton Getting Prices Right: What Should Be Done? Journal of Economic Perspectives, v. 12, no. 1, pp. 37-46
10/98 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
9/98 A. Case and A. Deaton Large Cash Transfers to the Elderly in South Africa Economic Journal, September 1998, v. 108, iss. 450, pp. 1330-13611
9/98 A. Deaton and S. Ng Parametric and Non-parametric Approaches to Price and Tax Reform Journal of the American Statistical Association, v. 93, iss. 443, pp. 900-909
5/98 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
11/97 A. Deaton and C. Paxson Poverty Among Children and the Elderly in Developing Countries
Figures		 Under Revision
2/97 A. Deaton and C. Paxson The Effects of Economic and Population Growth on National Saving and Inequality Demography, v. 34, iss. 1, pp. 97-114
1996 S. Subramanian and A. Deaton The Demand for Food and Calories Journal of Political Economy, February 1996, v. 104, iss. 1, pp. 133-162
1996 A. Deaton and G. Laroque Estimating a Nonlinear Rational Expectations Commodity Price Model with Unobservable State Variables Journal of Applied Econometrics, Supplement Dec. 1995, v. 10, iss. 0, pp. S9-40
10/96 A. Deaton and G. Laroque Competitive Storage and Commodity Price Dynamics Journal of Political Economy, v. 104, no. 5, pp. 896-923
1/96 A. Deaton Comment on "The Effect of Labor Market Rigidities on the Labor Force Behavior of Older Workers" Advances in the Economics of Aging, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 58-60
1995 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
1995 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, 1995, v. 3A, pp. 1785-1882
6/95 A. Deaton The Intertemporal Allocation of Consumption: Theory and Evidence: A Comment Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, v. 42, pp. 91-94
1994 A. Deaton,
K. Parikh, and S. Subramania		 Food Demand Pattern and Pricing Policy in Maharashtra: An Analysis Using Household Level Survey Data Sarvekshana, 1994, v. 17, iss. 4, 1994, pp. 11-34
1994 A. Deaton and C. Paxson Intertemporal Choice and Inequality Journal of Political Economy, 1994, v. 102, iss. 3, pp. 437-467
1994 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
1993 A. Deaton John Richard Stone 1913-1991 Proceedings of the British Academy, 82, 475-492
1993 D. Benjamin and A. Deaton Household Welfare and the Pricing of Cocoa and Coffee in Cote d'Ivoire: Lessons from the Living Standards Surveys World Bank Economic Review, vol. 7, iss. 3, pp. 293-318
1992 A. Deaton Household Saving in LDC's: Credit Markets, Insurance, and Welfare Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 94, iss. 2, 1992, pp. 253-273
1992 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
1992 A. Deaton and G. Laroque On the Behaviour of Commodity Prices Review of Economic Studies, September 1993, v. 7, iss. 3, pp. 293-318
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
1/92 A. Deaton Saving and Income Smoothing in Côte d'Ivoire Journal of African Economies, 1992, v. 1, iss. 1, pp. 1-24
1991 S. Subramanian and A. Deaton Gender Effects in Indian Consumption Patterns Sarvekshana, 1991, v. 14, iss. 4, pp. 1-12
9/91 A. Deaton Saving and Liquidity Constraints Econometrica, September 1991, v. 59, iss. 5, pp. 1221-1248
2/91 A. Deaton and F. Grimard Demand Analysis for Tax Reform in Pakistan  
1990 A. Deaton Price Elasticities from Survey Data: Extensions and Indonesian Results Journal of Econometrics, 1990, v. 44, pp. 281-309
1989 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
7/89 A. Deaton and J.Y. Campbell Why is Consumption So Smooth? Review of Economic Studies, v. 56, pp. 357-374
3/89 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
3/89 A. Deaton Rice Prices and Income Distribution in Thailand: A Non-parametric Analysis (formerly "Agricultural Pricing Policies and Demand Patterns in Thailand" Economic Journal, Supplement 1989, v. 99, iss. 395, pp. 1-37
2/89 A. Deaton, J. Ruiz-Castillo, and D. Thomas The Influence of Household Composition on Household Expenditure Patterns: Theory and Spanish Evidence Journal of Political Economy, v. 97, iss. 1, pp. 179-200
1/89 A. Deaton Looking for Boy-Girl Discrimination in Household Expenditures World Bank Economic Review, v. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-15
6/88 A. Deaton Quality, Quantity and Spatial Variation in Price American Economic Review, v. 78, pp. 418-430
9/87 A. Deaton Estimation of Own- and Cross-Price Elasticities from Survey Data Journal of Econometrics, v. 36, pp. 7-30
1986 A. Deaton and N.H. Stern Optimally Uniform Commodity Taxes, Taste Differences and Lump-Sum Grants Economic Letters, v. 20, iss. 3, pp. 263-266
1986 A. Deaton Demand Analysis in Z. Griliches and M.D. Intriligator (eds.), Handbook of Econometrics, v. 3, pp. 1767-1839
10/86 A, Deaton Panel Data from Time Series of Cross-Sections Journal of Econometrics, v. 30, pp. 109-126
8/86 A. Deaton and J. Muellbauer On Measuring Child Costs in Poor Countries Journal of Political Economy, v. 94, pp.720-744
1/86 A. Deaton, O. Ashenfelter, and G. Solon Collecting Panel Data in Developing Countries: Does It Make Sense? Living Standard Measurement Study, Working Paper 23, The World Bank, Washington DC
1985 A. Deaton and A. Blinder The Time Series Consumption Function Revisited Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1985, no. 2, pp. 465-521
5/85 A. Deaton, M. Browning, and M.J. Irish A Profitable Approach to Labor Supply and Commodity Demands Over the Life Cycle Econometrica, v. 53, no. 3, pp. 503-543
8/84 A. Deaton Household Surveys as a Data Base for the Analysis of Optimality and Disequilibrium Sankhya, The Indian Journal of Statistics Series B, v. 46, no. 2, pp. 228-246
2/84 A. Deaton and M.J. Irish Statistical Models for Zero Expenditures in Household Budgets Journal of Public Economics, v. 23, pp. 59-80
4/83 A. Deaton An Explicit Solution to an Optimal Tax Problem Journal of Public Economics, v. 20, iss. 3, pp. 333-346
11/81 A. Deaton Functional Forms for Labour Supply and Commodity Demands with and without Quantity Restrictions Econometrica, v. 49, iss. 6, pp. 1521-1532
10/81 A. Deaton Three Essays on a Sri Lanka Household Survey LSMS Working Paper No. 11, The World Bank, Washington, DC
9/81 A. Deaton Optimal Taxes and the Structure of Preferences Econometrica, v. 49, no. 5, pp. 1245-1260
6/80 A. Deaton and J. Muellbauer An Almost Ideal Demand System American Economic Review, v. 70, no. 3, pp. 312-326
1/80 A. Deaton and G.B. Aneuryn-Evans Testing Linear versus Logarithmic Regression Models Review of Economic Studies, v. 47, no. 1, pp. 275-291
7/79 A. Deaton The Distance Function and Consumer Behaviour with Applications to Index Numbers and Optimal Taxation Review of Economic Studies, v. 46, no. 3, pp. 391-405
1979 A. Deaton Optimally Uniform Commodity Taxes Econometrics Letter, v. 2, iss. 4, pp. 357-361
9/78 A. Deaton Specification and Testing in Applied Demand Analysis Economic Journal, v. 88, no. 351, pp. 524-536
5/78 A. Deaton and M.H. Pesaran Testing Non-nested Non-linear Regression Models Econometrica, v. 46, no. 3, pp. 677-694
12/77 A. Deaton Equity, Efficiency and the Structure of Indirect Taxation Journal of Public Economics, v. 8, iss. 3, pp. 299-312
7/75 A. Deaton The Measurement of Income and Price Elasticities European Economic Review, v. 7,pp. 261-273
7/74 A. Deaton A Reconsideration of the Empirical Implications of Additive Preferences Economic Journal, v. 84, no. 334
3/74 A. Deaton The Analysis of Consumer Demand in the United Kingdom 1900-1970 Econometrica, v. 42, no. 2, pp. 341-367
12/72 A. Deaton and J.A.C. Brown. Surveys in Applied Economics: Models of Consumer Behaviour Economic Journal, v. 82, pp. 1145-1236; reprinted in Surveys of Applied Economics, v. 1, MacMillan, 1973
9/72 A. Deaton Wealth Effects on Consumption in a Modified Life-Cycle Model Review of Economic Studies, v. 39, no. 4, pp. 443-453