Working Papers (unpublished) and Forthcoming Publications
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"Global Infant Mortality: Correcting for Undercounting" 2009 (with Rebecca Anthopolos).
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"Age-Adjusted Disability Rates and Regional Effects in Russia," 2009 (with Aleksandr A. Andreev).
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"Disability Risk and Miraculous Recoveries in Russia," 2008 (with Irina S. Merkuryeva).
- “Curriculum Intensity in Graduate Preparatory Programs: Impact on Performance and Progression to Graduate Study among Minority Students in Economics,” in Ronald G. Ehrenberg, editor. Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008 (forthcoming, with Gregory N. Price).
Please note that the link is to a draft version.
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“Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration.” Ch. 35 in Amitava Krishna Dutt and Jaime Ros, editors. International Handbook of Development Economics. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2008 (forthcoming).
- “Disability in Kazakhstan: making sense of recent trends,” Washington, DC: World Bank, Social Protection Discussion Paper 0802, February 2008 (with Ai-Gul S. Seitenova).
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Social Security Reform in Transition Economies: Lessons from Kazakhstan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 (forthcoming, with Grigory A. Marchenko, Sabit Khakimzhanov, Ai-Gul S. Seitenova, and Vladimir Ivliev).
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Selected Publications
- “W. Arthur Lewis in Retrospect,” Review of Black Political Economy, 34(4), December 2007 (with Terry-Ann L. Craigie).
- “Pension Reform in Central Asia: an Overview.” Ch. 9 in Masaaki Kuboniwa and Yoshiaki Nishimura, editors. Economics of Intergenerational Equity in Transition Economies. Tokyo: Maruzen Publishers, 2006 (with Ai-Gul S. Seitenova and Dina S. Urzhumova).
(Hitotsubashi University PIE discussion paper no 260 version)
- “Fertility and Marriage in Kazakhstan’s Transition Period: Implications for Social Security Policy,” Ch. 13 in Masaaki Kuboniwa and Yoshiaki Nishimura, editors. Economics of Intergenerational Equity in Transition Economies. Tokyo: Maruzen Publishers, 2006 (with Ai-Gul S. Seitenova)
(Hitotsubashi University PIE discussion paper no 261 version)
- “Mortality recovery and stabilization in Kazakhstan,” Economics and Human Biology, 3(1), March 2005 (with Dina S. Urzhumova);
an earlier draft
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"The migration response to economic shock: lessons from Kazakhstan.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 33(1), March 2005 (with Erbolat N. Musabek, Ai-Gul S. Seitenova, and Dina S. Urzhumova).
- “Kazakhstan’s Pension System: Pressures for Change and Dramatic Reforms,” Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 45(2), December 2004 (with Ai-Gul S. Seitenova).
- “Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in the Former USSR: Social Transfers in the Kyrgyz Republic,” World Development, 32(11), November 2004 (with Sergey V. Paltsev).
- Cities Transformed: The Dynamics of Demographic Change in Developing Countries. Mark R. Montgomery, Richard Stren, Barney Cohen,and Holly Reed, editors. Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003. This is a report of the Panel on Urban Population Dynamics, of which I was a member; primary contribution: chapter 8 (with others: see pp. viii-ix).
- “Short-run Migration Responses of Men and Women during a Period of Economic Turmoil: Lessons from Kazakhstan.” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 44(3), 2003 (with Erbolat N. Musabek, Ai-Gul S. Seitenova, and Dina S. Urzhumova).
- "Speculative Price Bubbles in the Rice Market and the 1974 Bangladesh Famine," Journal of Economic Development, 25(2), 2000 (with M. Quddus).
- "Urbanization in Transforming Economies," In P. Cheshire and E. S. Mills, editors. Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, North-Holland, 1999 (with A.R. Morrison).
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"Demographic change in the former Soviet Union during the transition period." World Development, 26(11), 1998 (with D.D. Hemley).
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"Pension burdens and labor force participation in Kazakhstan." World Development, 26(11), 1998 (with D.S. Urzhumova).
- "Cohort-Specific Rural-Urban Migration in Africa," Journal of African Economies, 5(2), 1996 (with C.D. Grewe).
- Beyond Urban Bias: African Cities in an Age of Structural Adjustment. Heinemann and James Currey, Ltd., 1994 (with A.R. Morrison and A.M. Hamer).
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"Observational equivalence in the modeling of African labor markets and urbanization," World Development, 21(4), 1993 (with A.R. Morrison).
- Indian Urbanization and Economic Growth Since 1960. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 (with J.G. Williamson and E.S. Mills).
- The Impact of Sanctions on South Africa. Investor Responsibility Research Center, 1990 (with T. Bell, H.A. Khan, and P. Pollard).
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