Poverty and Inequality: Forthcoming in 2008

Journal Articles
Books
Chapters in Books

Journal Articles

Araujo, M. Caridad, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Peter Lanjouw, and Berk Özler. Forthcoming. “Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador.” Journal of Public Economics.

Ban, Radu, and Vijayendra Rao. Forthcoming. “Tokenism vs. Agency? The Impact of Women’s Reservations on Village Democracies in South India.” Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Beegle, Kathleen, Joachim De Weerdt, and Stefan Dercon. 2008. “Adult Mortality and Economic Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 56(2): 299-326.

Bourguignon, François, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, and Phillippe Leite. Forthcoming. “Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions.” Journal of Economic Inequality.

Claeson, Mariam, Jed Friedman, Ghulam Dastagir Sayed, and Alex Wodak. Forthcoming. “Battling HIV Infection in Afghanistan.” The Lancet.

Das, Jishnu, Quy-Toan Do, Jed Friedman, David McKenzie, and Kinnon Scott. Forthcoming. “Response: Mental Health and Poverty in Developing Countries: Revisiting the Relationship.” Social Science and Medicine.

Do, Quy-Toan, and Andrei Levchenko. Forthcoming. “Comparative Advantage, Demand for External Finance and Financial Development.” Journal of Financial Economics.

Do, Quy-Toan, and Lakshmi Iyer. Forthcoming. “Rural Vietnam in Transition.” Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Elbers, Chris, Peter Lanjouw, Johannes G. Mistiaen, and Berk Özler. Forthcoming. “Re-interpreting Sub-Group Inequality Decompositions.” The Journal of Economic Inequality.

Ferreira, Francisco H. G., Phillippe Leite, and Julie Litchfield. Forthcoming. “The Rise and Fall of Brazilian Inequality: 1981-2004.” Macroeconomic Dynamics.

Frankenberg, Elizabeth, Jed Friedman, Duncan Thomas, and others. “Mental Health in Sumatra Following the Tsunami.” American Journal of Public Health.

Gibson, Christopher, and Michael Woolcock. Forthcoming. “Empowerment, Deliberative Development and Local Level Politics in Indonesia: Participatory Projects as a Source of Countervailing Power.” Studies in Comparative International Development.

Jacoby, Hanan, and Ghazala Mansuri. Forthcoming. “Incomplete Contracts and Investment: A Study of Land Tenancy in Pakistan.” Review of Economic Studies.

Lewis David, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock. Forthcoming. “The Fiction of Development: Literary Representation as an Authoritative Knowledge Source.” Journal of Development Studies.

Lokshin, Michael. Forthcoming. “Does Poverty Research in Russia Follow the Scientific Method.” Economic Matters (Voprosy Economiki) (in Russian).

Lokshin, Michael, and Zurab Sajaja. Forthcoming. “The Economic Cost of Smoking: Differences in Wages between Smokers and Non-Smokers in Russia.” Applied Econometrics (in Russian).

Lokshin, Michael, and Martin Ravallion. Forthcoming. “Testing for an Economic Gradient in Health Status Using Subjective Data.” Health Economics.

Milanovic, Branko, and Leif Wenar. Forthcoming. “Are Liberal Peoples Peaceful?” Journal of Political Philosophy.

Sawada, Yasuyuki, and Michael Lokshin. Forthcoming. “Sequential Schooling Decisions of Households: An Analysis of Field Survey Data from Rural Pakistan.” Journal of Development Economics.

Stampini Marco, Calogero Carletto, and Benjamin Davis. 2008. “International Migration from Albania: the Role of Family Networks and Previous Experience.” Eastern European Economics 46(2).

Addison,Tony, and Michael Woolcock. Forthcoming. Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gopal, Kadekodi, Ravi Kanbur, Vijayendra Rao. Forthcoming. Development in Karnataka: Challenges of Equity, Governance and Empowerment. New Delhi: Academic Foundation Press.

Lokshin, Michael, Elena Glinskaya, and Marito Garcia. 2008. “ECD Programs, Mother’s Labor Supply and Older Children’s Schooling in Kenya.” In Africa’s Future, Africa’s Challenge: Early Childhood Care and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, ed. Marito Garcia, Alan Pence, and Judith Evans. Directions in Development Series. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Ferreira, Francisco H.G., Phillippe Leite, Luiz Pereira da Silva and Paulo Picchetti.Forthcoming. “Can the Distributional Impacts of Macroeconomic Shocks Be Predicted? A Comparison of the Performance of Macro-Micro Models with Historical Data for Brazil.” In Toolkit, Volume II, ed. François Bourguignon and Luiz Pereira da Silva. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Ferreira, Francisco H.G., and Martin Ravallion. Forthcoming. “Poverty and Inequality: the Global Context.” In Handbook of Economic Inequality, ed. Nolan, Salverda and Smeeding. Oxford University Press.

Bourguignon, François, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Branko Milanovic, and Martin Ravallion. Forthcoming. “Global Inequality and Poverty.” In Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy.

Friedman, Jed, and Edit Velenyi. Forthcoming. “Responding to HIV in Afghanistan.” In HIV/AIDS as an Economic Development Risk in South Asia, ed. Mariam Claeson and Markus Haacker. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Dasgupta, Monica, Ghazala Mansuri, N. Sinha, and Tara Vishwanath. Forthcoming. “Gender-based Constraints to the Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Services in Pakistan: The Role of the Doorstep Delivery System.” In Gender and Access in South Asia. Paris: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.

Beard, Victoria, Menno Pradhan, Randi Cartmill, Yulia Herawati, Vijayendra Rao, and Rivayanai. Forthcoming. “Decentralization and Elite Capture: The Selection of Leaders and Beneficiaries in Community-Driven Projects in Indonesia.” In Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South, ed. Victoria Beard, Faranak Miraftab & Christopher Silver. Routledge.

Rao, Vijayendra. Forthcoming. “Assessing the Karnataka Model of Development.” In Challenges of Karnataka’s Development, ed. Gopal K. Kadekodi, Ravi Kanbur and Vijayendra Rao. New Delhi: Academic Foundation Press.

Woolcock, Michael. Forthcoming. “Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigor and Relevance of Social Theory.” In Poverty Dynamics: Towards Inter-Disciplinary Approaches, ed. Tony Addison, David Hulme and Ravi Kanbur. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nyhan Jones, Nyhan, Veronica, and Michael Woolcock. Forthcoming. “Mixed Methods Assessment.” In Handbook of Social Capital, ed. Gert Svendsen and Gunnar Svendsen. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar.

Barron, Patrick, Rachel Diprose, Claire Smith, Katherine Whiteside, and Michael Woolcock. Forthcoming. “Applying Mixed Methods Research to Community Driven Development Projects and Local Conflict Mediation: A Case Study from Indonesia.” In Foundations of Mixed Methods, ed. Abbas Tashakkori and Charles Teddlie. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Woolcock, Michael. Forthcoming. “Social Capital and Development: Major Concepts and Relevant International Experience for China.” In China: A Wealthier and Healthier Nation? ed. Yuanli Liu and Barry R. Bloom. Cambridge, Mass,: Harvard University Press.