Journal Articles What are we learning from business training evaluations around the developing world? with Chris Woodruff, World Bank Research Observer, forthcoming.
Quantifying Some of the Impacts of Economics Blogs with Berk Ozler, Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming.
The Development Impact of a Best Practice Seasonal Worker Policy with John Gibson, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
Does Management Matter? Evidence from India with Nick Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan and John Roberts, Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension, with John Gibson, Steven Stillman and Hala Rohorua, Health Economics, forthcoming. "Information Flows and Migration: Recent Survey Evidence from the South Pacific" with J. Gibson, H. Rohorua and S. Stillman, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 19(3): 401-20, 2010. "The Impact of Immigration on Child Health: Experimental Evidence From a Migration Lottery Program", with J. Gibson and S. Stillman, Economic Inquiry, 50(1): 62-81, 2012. "Japanese-Brazilians and the Future of Brazilian Migration to Japan", with A. Salcedo, International Migration, forthcoming. Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-based, Snowball, and Intercept Surveys, with J. Mistiaen, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 172(2): 339-360, 2009. Experimental Evidence on Returns to Capital and Access to Finance in Mexico, with C. Woodruff, World Bank Economic Review, 22(3): 457-82. How Important is Selection? Experimental Vs Non-experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration, with J. Gibson and S. Stillman, Journal of the European Economic Association, 8(4): 913-45, 2010. Returns to Capital: Results from a Randomized Experiment, with S. de Mel and C. Woodruff, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(4): 1329-72, 2008. "Mental Health Patterns and Consequences: Results from Survey Data in Five Developing Countries", with J. Das, Q.-T. Do, and J. Friedman, World Bank Economic Review, 23(1), 31-55, 2009. Measuring Microenterprise Profits: Must We Ask How the Sausage Is Made?, with S. de Mel and C.Woodruff, Journal of Development Economics, 88(1): 19-31, 2009. "Urban Water Supply in India: Status, Reform Options, and Possible Lessons", with I. Ray, Water Policy, 11: 442-60, 2009. Efficient Remittance Services for Development in the Pacific, with J. Gibson, G. Boe-Gibson, and H. Rohorua, Asia-Pacific Development Journal, 14(2):55-74, 2007. Who is coming from Vanuatu to New Zealand under the new Recognized Seasonal Employer (RSE) Program? with P.Garcia Martinez and L.A. Winters, Pacific Economic Bulletin 23(3):205-228, 2008. How Pro-Poor is the Selection of Seasonal Migrant Workers from Tonga Under New Zealand’s Recognized Seasonal Employer (RSE) Program? with J. Gibson and H. Rohorua, Pacific Economic Bulletin 23(3): 187-204, 2008. A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants, Population and Development Review, 34(1): 115-135 (2008).
Mental Health Recovery and Economic Recovery after the Tsunami: High-Frequency Longitudinal Evidence from Sri Lanka with S. de Mel and C. Woodruff, Social Science and Medicine, 66: 582-95 (2008)
"Revisiting the Relationship between Mental Health and Poverty in Developing Countries: A Response to Corrigall", with J. Das, Q.-T. Do, J. Friedman, and K. Scott, Social Science and Medicine, 66(9): 2064-66 (2008).
Which Youth Get to Make Human Capital Decisions? Results from Recent Surveys, Development Outreach (June 2007).
"Paper Walls Are Easier to Tear Down: Passport Costs and Legal Barriers to Emigration", World Development. 35(11): 2026-2039 (2007).
Poverty Traps and Nonlinear Income Dynamics with Measurement Error and Individual Heterogeneity, with F. Antman, Journal of Development Studies, 43(6): 1057-1083 (August 2007).
Using the Global Positioning System (GPS) in Household Surveys for Better Economics and Better Policy, with J. Gibson, World Bank Research Observer, 2007, 22(2): 217-41.
"Mental Health and Poverty in Developing Countries: Revisiting the Relationship", with J. Das, Q.-T. Do, J. Friedman, and K. Scott, Social Science and Medicine, 65(3): 467-80 (August 2007).
Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error: A Pseudo-Panel Approach, with F. Antman, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 56(1): 125-162 (2007).
"Moving to Opportunity, Leaving Behind What? Evaluating the Initial Effects of a Migration Policy on Incomes and Poverty in a Source Country", with J. Gibson and S. Stillman, New Zealand Economic Papers, 41(2): 197-224 (2007).
Migration and Education Inequality in Rural Mexico with H. Rapoport, Integration and Trade Journal/Revista Integración y Comercio, 27: 13-158 (2007).
Network Effects and the dynamics of Migration and Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Mexico, with H. Rapoport, Journal of Development Economics, 84(1): 1-24 (2007).
How cost elastic are remittances? Evidence from Tongan migrants in New Zealand, with J. Gibson and H. Rohorua, Pacific Economic Bulletin, 21(1): 112-128 (2006).
Do Entry Costs Provide an Empirical Basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises, with C. Woodruff, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 55(1): 3-42 (2006).
The Consumer Response to the Mexican Peso Crisis, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 55(1): 139-72 (2006).
Disentangling Age, Cohort and Time Effects in the Additive Model, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 68(4): 473-95 (2006).
Precautionary Saving and Consumption Growth in Taiwan, China Economic Review, 17(1): 84-101 (2006).
Measuring Inequality with Asset Indicators, Journal of Population Economics, 18(2): 229-260 (2005).
The effects of migration on child health in Mexico, with N. Hildebrandt, Economia, 6(1): 257-89 (2005).
"Aggregate Shocks and Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Argentina’s Financial Crisis", Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52(4): 719-758 (2004).
"Asymptotic Theory for Heterogeneous Dynamic Pseudo-Panels", Journal of Econometrics, 120(2): 235-262 (2004).
"An Econometric Analysis of IBRD Creditworthiness", International Economic Journal, 18(4): 429-450 (2004).
"The Distributive Impact of Privatization in Latin America: An Overview of Evidence from Four Countries", with D. Mookherjee, Economia, 3(2): 161-218 (2003).
"How Do Households Cope with Aggregate Shocks? Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis", World Development, 31(7): 1179-1199 (2003).
"The Prudence of Mexican Consumers", Economía Mexicana, Nueva Época , 11(2): 393-407 (2002).
Are tortillas a giffen good in Mexico?, Economics Bulletin , 15(1): 1-7 (2002).
"Estimation of AR(1) Models with Unequally-Spaced Pseudo-Panels", Econometrics Journal 2001, 4: 89- 108. Reprinted as pp. 372-91, B. Baltagi (ed.), Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Panel Data Volume II, Edward Elgar: Northampton, MA (2002).
"The Impact of Capital Controls on Growth Convergence", Journal of Economic Development 26(1):1-24 (2001).
"Econometric cost estimates for cellular telephony in the United States", with J. P. Small, Journal of Regulatory Economics , 12(2): 147-57 (1997).
Books Chapters in Books Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies with Dean Yang pp. 249-269 in Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.) Handbook of Research Methods in Migration. Edward-Elgar: Northampton, MA.
How can developing country governments facilitate international migration for poverty reduction? with J. Gibson, pp.125-43 in Migration and Poverty: Toward Better Opportunities for the Poor, E. Murrugarra, J. Larrison and M. Sasin (eds.) The World Bank, 2011.
Who are the Microenterprise Owners?: Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto with S. de Mel and C. Woodruff, in International Differences in Entrepreneurship, J. Lerner and A. Schoar (eds.), pp.63-87, 2010.
Remittances in the Pacific, in Immigrants and their International Money Flows, S. Pozo (ed.), W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research: Kalamazoo, MI, pp. 99-121 (2007).
The Impact of an Ex-Ante Job Offer Requirement on Labor Migration: The New Zealand-Tongan Experience, with J. Gibson, in International Migration, Economic Development and Policy, C. Ozden and M. Schiff (eds.), World Bank, Washington, DC, pp. 215-233 (2007).
Paradox and Perception: Evidence from Four Latin American Countries, with D. Mookherjee, chapter 2 in Reality Check: The Distributional Impact of Privatization in Developing Countries, J. Nellis and N. Birdsall (eds.) Center for Global Development: Washington, D.C. (2005).
Beyond Remittances: The effects of Migration on Mexican Households, in International Migration, Remittances and the Brain Drain, C. Ozden and M. Schiff (eds.) The World Bank: Washington D.C. (2005).
Book Reviews and Comments Review of "Poverty Traps" by S. Bowles, S. Durlauf and K. Hoff (eds.), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 55(4): 845-848 (July 2007).
Comment on "Assessing Health Reform in Colombia: From Theory to Practice" by A. Gaviria et al., Economia, 7(1): 64-65 (Fall 2006).
Review of "Indonesian Living Standards after the Financial Crisis" by J. Strauss et al., Journal of Economic Literature (September 2005).
Survey Instruments and Data Blog Other Documents Working Papers - Soft Skills or Hard Cash ? The Impact of Training and Wage Subsidy Programs on Female Youth Employment in Jordan with Matthew Groh, Nandini Krishnan, and Tara Vishwanath, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 6141, (July 2012).
- Using Administrative Data to Evaluate Municipal Reforms: An evaluation of the Impact of Minas Fácil Expresso with Miriam Bruhn World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 6368, (February, 2013).
- Learning from the experiments that never happened : lessons from trying to conduct randomized evaluations of matching grant programs in Africa, with Francisco Campos, Aidan Coville, Ana M. Fernandes, and Markus Goldstein. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 6296, (December, 2012).
- Who You Train Matters: Identifying Complementary Effects of Financial Education on Migrant Households, with Yoko Doi and Bilal Zia, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 6157, (August, 2012).
- Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-up , Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka, with Suresh de Mel and Chris Woodruff, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 6145, (July, 2012).
- Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks, with Caroline Theoharides and Dean Yang, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 6041, (April, 2012).
- Learning About Migration Through Experiments, March 2012.
- Female Microenterprises and the Fly-paper Effect: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ghana, (November, 2011).
Using repeated cross-sections to explore movements in and out of poverty with P. Lanjouw and J. Luoto, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5550 (January 2011).
Experimental approaches in migration studies with D. Yang, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5395 (August 2010).
Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises with S. de Mel and C. Woodruff, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4934.
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