poverty & inequality
"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.
"Rethinking Inequality Decomposition, with Evidence from Rural China" (PDF) (with Terry Sicular). Economic Journal 112 (476), January 2002, 93-106.
"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.
"Politics, Growth, and Inequality in Rural China: Does it Pay to Join the Party?" (PDF) (with Terry Sicular). Journal of Public Economics, 2000.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"Poverty and Vulnerability" (PDF). American Economic Review: AEA Papers and Proceedings 84 (2), May 1994, 221 - 225.
"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.
“Financial Expansion and Fertility Decline: Evidence from Bangladesh,” December 2001; revised May 2004.
"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.
