"Consumption Smoothing Across Space: Tests for Village-Level Responses to Risk" (PDF), Substantial revisions August 2001 and June 2003. In Stefan Dercon, ed., Insurance Against Poverty, Oxford University Press, 2003.

"Rethinking Inequality Decomposition, with Evidence from Rural China" (PDF) (with Terry Sicular). Economic Journal 112 (476), January 2002, 93-106.

"Strengthening Safety Nets in Developing Countries: Emerging Issues and Evidence" (with Manohar Sharma), prepared for World Bank Institute, December 2000. International Food Policy Research Institute Working Paper, September 2001.

"Reforming Poverty Alleviation Policies" (PDF), presented at conference on "Economic Policy Reform: What We Know and What We Need to Know" held at Stanford University, September 1998. Published in Economic Policy Reform: The Second Stage, edited by Professor Anne Krueger, University of Chicago Press, 2000.

"Sibling Rivalry in Africa" (PDF). American Economic Review (AEA, Papers and Proceedings), May 2000.

"Politics, Growth, and Inequality in Rural China: Does it Pay to Join the Party?" (PDF) (with Terry Sicular). Journal of Public Economics, 2000.

"Between the Market and State: Can Informal Insurance Patch the Safety Net?" (PDF) World Bank Research Observer 14 (2), August 1999, 187 - 207.

"Poverty and the `Population Problem'" (with Sudhir Anand, University of Oxford). Revision of Address at International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Congress, Florence, Italy, March 1995. In Population and Poverty in Developing Countries, Massimo Livi-Bacci and Gustavo de Santis, eds., Oxford University (Clarendon) Press, 1999.

"Sibling Rivalry and the Gender Gap: Evidence from Child Health Outcomes in Ghana" (PDF) (with Ashish Garg), Journal of Population Economics 11 (4), December 1998, 471 - 493.

"Poverty, Economic Growth, and Average Exit Time" (PDF), Economics Letters 59, 1998, 385-390. Featured in Economic Intuition (July 1998) as one of the "best 100 articles [selected] annually" in management, finance, and economics.

"Technological Adoption in Rural Cochabamba, Bolivia" (with Ricardo Godoy and David Bravo), Journal of Anthropological Research 54, Fall 1998, 351 - 371.

"Using Mixture Models to Detect Sex Bias in Health Outcomes in Bangladesh" (PDF) (with Hal Stern). Journal of Econometrics 77 (1), March 1997, 259 - 276.

"Decentralization, Externalities, and Efficiency" (PDF) (with Peter Klibanoff). Review of Economic Studies 62, April 1995, 223 - 247.

"Distributional Consequences of the Russian Price Reform" (PDF) (with Karen Brooks and Yakov Urinson), Economic Development and Cultural Change 42:3, April 1994, 469 - 484.

"A Model of Price Liberalization in Russia" (with Alan Taylor, Harvard University), in The Economics of Transformation: Theory and Practice in the New Market Economies, eds. A. Schipke and A. Taylor (Berlin, New York: Springer, 1993).

"Wheat and Maize Price Policies in Hungary: Tradeoffs between Foreign Exchange and Government Revenue" (with Avishay Braverman and Jeffrey S. Hammer), Agricultural Economics 1, 1987.

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WORKING PAPERS

“The Strategy of Global Public Goods” with Akihiko Matsui (University of Tokyo). Presented at NYU Conference on Foreign Aid (PDF) and Northeast University Development Consortium, Yale University. December 2003.

“The Knowledge Bank,” August 2002. Presented at meeting on “Reinventing Foreign Aid,” Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, August 2002 and at JICA, Tokyo, June 2003. Revision to be included in Rethinking Foreign Aid, edited by William Easterly, MIT Press.

"Financial Expansion and Fertility Decline: Evidence from Bangladesh," November 1999.

"Sibling Rivalry" (with Ashish Garg), presented at UC-Berkeley, Stanford, SUNY-Albany, William and Mary, University of Michigan, Columbia, Princeton and Ohio State. October 1998.

"Identifying Sex Bias in the Allocation of Household Resources: Evidence from Linked Household Surveys from Bangladesh" (with Asif Ahmad). Harvard Institute for Economic Research Discussion Paper/HIID Development Discussion Paper. Presented at Harvard University; Boston University; Center for Development Research, Bangladesh (Dhaka); University of Western Ontario. April 1993.

"Aggregation and the Measurement of Agricultural Supply Response: Evidence from a Century of Agriculture in Maharashtra State." Presented at the Winter Econometric Society Meetings, Anaheim, CA. January 1993.

"Risk, Production and Saving: Theory and Evidence from Indian Households." Presented at Harvard, Stanford, UC-San Diego, UC-Los Angeles, U. of Pennsylvania, Boston College, U. of Virginia, Princeton, Yale, UC-Berkeley. November 1990 (Revised June 1993).

"Risk and Poverty Alleviation." Presented at the 1992 New England Universities Development Consortium Conference, Boston, MA. October 1991.

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COURSES