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Publications

· “Growth Reference Charts and the Nutritional Status of Indian Children” (2008), Economics and Human Biology, 6(3), 455-468.

· “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).

Other Publications

· “Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-protecting Behavior: Preliminary Evidence from Orissa (India)” (2008) (with Brian Blackburn, Aprajit Mahajan and Joanne Yoong). American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming.

· “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?” (April 2008), Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics.

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

· “Bednets, Information and Malaria in Orissa” (2009), with Brian Blackburn, Aprajit Mahajan and Joanne Yoong. BREAD Working Paper No. 211. Submitted.

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

Work in Progress (all with very provisional titles. More specific information upon request)

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

· “Health-related Information and Demand for Health Care: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Orissa (India)”, with Brian Blackburn, Aprajit Mahajan, Joanne Yoong and Eddie Zhang.

· “New Evidence on the Prevalence of Lymphatic filariasis in North-Western Orissa”, with Brian Blackburn, Patricia Foo, Aprajit Mahajan and Joanne Yoong.

· “Subjective Risk Assessment and Reactions to Health-related Information: Evidence from Bangladesh”, with Lori Bennear, Soumya Balasubramanya and Alex Pfaff.

· “Self-assessments of Socio-Economic Status and Forecasts about the Future: New Evidence from Indonesia”, with Maria Genoni and Duncan Thomas.

· “On the Impact of Microcredit: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Ethiopia”, with Jaikishan Desai and Kristin Johnson.

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