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Publications

 

·       Growth Reference Charts and the Nutritional Status of Indian Children”, (July 2008), Accepted for publication at Economics and Human Biology.

·       Using Census and Survey Data to Estimate Poverty and Inequality for Small Areas”, (March 2008), with Angus Deaton. Accepted for publication at the Review of Economics and Statistics.

·       Semiparametric Efficiency in GMM Models with Auxiliary Data”, with Xiaohong Chen and Han Hong. (2008). The Annals of Statistics, 36(2), 808-843.

·       A longer version with additional results and more readable proofs for the semiparametric efficiency bounds can be found here.

·       Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties” (2007), with Aprajit Mahajan. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 55(3), 441-486.

·       Calculating Comparable Statistics from Incomparable Surveys, with an Application to Poverty in India” (2007). Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 25(3), 314-336.

·       “The Indian Public Distribution System as Provider of Food Security: Evidence from Child Nutrition in Andhra Pradesh”, European Economic Review, Volume 49, Issue 5, Pages 1305-1330 (July 2005).

·        Prices and Poverty in India”, with Angus Deaton. now Chapter 16 in Deaton and Kozel (2005), Data and Dogma: The Great Indian Poverty Debate, New Delhi, Macmillan India.

 

Working Papers

 

·       Can Census Data Alone Signal Heterogeneity in the Estimation of Poverty Maps?”, Submitted, (April 2008).

·        Microcredit, Family Planning Programs and Contraceptive Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia” (April 2008), with Jaikishan Desai.

·        “Adjusting to Trade Policy: Evidence from U.S. Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Catfish” (July 2008). With Irene Brambilla and Guido Porto.

 

Work in Progress

 

·        “Fighting Malaria with Microfinance: Evidence from Orissa (India)”, with Brian Blackburn, Aprajit Mahajan and Joanne Yoong.

·        “Demand for and Reactions to Health-related Information: Evidence from Bangladesh”, with Lori Bennear, Soumya Hassan and Alex Pfaff.

 

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