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Duke University, Department of Economics
202
Social Science Building
P.O. Box 90097
Durham, NC, 27708
Starting January 2012 I will join the Department of Economics
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Working Papers
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Micro-loans,
bednets and malaria: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Orissa
(India), (July 2011), with Aprajit
Mahajan, Brian
Blackburn, Dan Kopf, Lakshmi Krishnan and Joanne Yoong. Revision requested, American Economic Review.
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Time
Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption: The case of Insecticide
Treated Nets, (March 2011) with Aprajit
Mahajan. Revision requested, Econometrica.
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Bright Lines,
Risk Beliefs, and Risk Avoidance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in
Bangladesh (May 2011), with Lori Bennear,
H B Soumya, Alex Pfaff, Kazi
Matin Ahmed and Lex van Geen. Revision requested, Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management.
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Some Facts about Boy
vs. Girl Health Indicators in India:
1992 to 2005 (September 2011).
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(Limited)
Diffusion of Health-protecting Behaviors: Evidence from Non-beneficiaries of a
Public Health Program in Orissa, India (November 2011), with Chutima
(Gift) Tontarawongsa and Aprajit
Mahajan.
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On the Impact of Micro-credit:
Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Ethiopia (October 2011), with Jaikishan Desai
and Kristin
Johnson.
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Increasing
Gains from Risk Information: Evidence from Arsenic in Bangladesh (April 2011),
with H.B. Soumya, Alex Pfaff, Lori Bennear,
Kazi Matin Ahmed, Amy
Schoenfeld and Lex van Geen.
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Bednets,
Information and Malaria in Orissa (July 2011), with Brian Blackburn, Aprajit Mahajan and Joanne Yoong.
BREAD Working Paper No. 211.
Publications
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Adjusting
to Trade Policy: Evidence from U.S. Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Catfish
(2010). With Irene Brambilla and Guido Porto. Accepted
for publication at the Review
of Economics and Statistics.
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Can Census Data Alone
Signal Heterogeneity in the Estimation of Poverty Maps? (2011), Journal
of Development Economics 95(2), 170-185.
o Microcredit, Family
Planning Programs and Contraceptive Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment
in Ethiopia (2011), with Jaikishan Desai.
Demography, 48(2), 749-782.
o Using
Census and Survey Data to Estimate Poverty and Inequality for Small Areas (2009), with Angus Deaton. Review of Economics
and Statistics, 91(4),
773-792.
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Growth
Reference Charts and the Nutritional Status of Indian Children (2008), Economics
and Human Biology, 6(3), 455-468.
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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.
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Child
Nutrition in India in the Nineties (2007), with Aprajit Mahajan. Economic
Development and Cultural Change. 55(3), 441-486.
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Calculating
Comparable Statistics from Incomparable Surveys, with an Application to Poverty
in India (2007). Journal of Business and Economic
Statistics, 25(3), 314-336.
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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
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Lymphatic
Filariasis in Orissa, India: Expanded Endemic Range and A Call to Re-evaluate
Targeting of Mass Drug Administration Programs (2011), with Patricia Foo, Aprajit Mahajan, Joanne Yoong,
Lakshmi Krishnan, Danel Kopf and Brian Blackburn. Transactions
of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 105(2), 109-114.
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Commitment
Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-protecting Behavior: Preliminary Evidence
from Orissa (India) (2009) (with Brian Blackburn, Aprajit Mahajan and Joanne Yoong). American
Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 99(2), 231-235.
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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.