risk & insurance
"Micro-insurance: The Next Revolution?" (PDF) To be included in What Have We Learned About Poverty? edited by Abhijit Banerjee, Roland Benabou, and Dilip Mookherjee. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
"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.
"Measuring vulnerability to poverty" (PDF). With Gisele Kamanou, United Nations Statistical Division. June 2003. In Stefan Dercon, ed., Insurance Against Poverty, Oxford University Press, 2003.
"Strengthening Safety Nets from the Bottom Up" (with Manohar Sharma), Development Policy Review, 2002.
"Risk and Insurance in Transition: Perspectives from Zouping County, China," (with Terry Sicular, University Western Ontario). Chapter 8 in Community and Market in Economic Development, Oxford University Press, edited by Professors Masahiko Aoki and Yujiro Hayami, 2001.
"Between the Market and State: Can Informal Insurance Patch the Safety Net?" (PDF) World Bank Research Observer 14 (2), August 1999, 187 - 207.
"Income Smoothing and Consumption Smoothing" (PDF). Journal of Economic Perspectives 9(3), Summer 1995, 103 - 114.
"Rainfall Insurance and Vulnerability: Economic Principles and Cautionary Notes" (PDF). March 7, 2001.
"Risk and Poverty Alleviation." Presented at the 1992 New England Universities Development Consortium Conference, Boston, MA. October 1991.
"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).
