International Development

IIEP and its faculty specialize in the study of international development, understanding low and middle-income countries’ economic development around the world. IIEP and its faculty publish books, working papers, articles, and op-eds on global health economics, urban issues, sustainability, nongovernmental organizations, labor markets, nutrition, gender, inequality, infrastructure, geography, and natural resources. We also host a variety of events, workshops, and seminars where policymakers and academics can share their research. This includes an ongoing Viewing Multidimensional Poverty From Many Angles Multidimensional Poverty Seminar Series with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report Office (HDRO) and IIEP’s Facing Inequality series which focuses on current and emerging inequality issues in the U.S. and around the globe, especially those revealed by the current COVID-19 pandemic. IIEP has also had the honor of hosting Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus to share his work and insights into combating poverty through microlending.

Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth

June 2020. Elira Kuka and Na’ama Shenhav. IIEP working paper 2020-10

Medieval Cities Through the Lens of Urban Economic Theories

May 2020. Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson, and Mark Koyama. IIEP working paper 2020-9

Human Capital Accumulation at Work: Estimates for the World and Implications for Development

February 2020. Remi Jedwab, Asif Islam, Paul Romer, and Robert Samaniego. IIEP working paper 2020-3

Cities of Workers, Children or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities

August 2019. Remi Jedwab, Daniel Pereira, and Mark Roberts. IIEP working paper 2019-13

Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S

August 2019. Barry Chiswick and Christina Houseworth. IIEP working paper 2019-12

Drug Money and Bank Lending: The Unintended Consequences of Anti-Money Laundering

March 2019. Tomas Williams, Pablo Slutzky, and Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas. IIEP Working Paper 2019-5.

Agricultural extension, intra-household allocation and malaria

March 2019. Yao Pan and Saurabh Singhal. IIEP Working Paper 2019-4.

Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany

February 2019. Stephen C. Smith, Uwe Jirjahn and Jens Mohrenweiser. IIEP Working Paper 2019-1.

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Articles

Chiswick, Barry R. and Christina Houseworth, “Divorce Among European and Mexican Immigrants in the US”, Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, Vol 18, No 1, March 2020, pp. 1-25.

Williams, Ben, “Nonparametric identification of discrete choice models with lagged dependent variables,” Journal of Econometrics, Mar 2020, Volume 215, Issue 1, March 2020, Pages 286-304.

Joshi, Sumit, “Multi-relational Network Formation with Spillovers,” with Pascal Billand, Christophe Bravard, Ahmed Saber Mahmud and Sudipta Sarangi, April 2020.

Baird, S., Hamory Hicks, J., Ozier, O. (2020). “Randomized control trial as social observatory: A case study.” World Development. Vol. 127, 104787.

Broxterman, Daniel and Anthony Yezer, “Measuring Human Capital Divergence in a Growing Economy:, Journal of Urban Economics, 2020.

Joshi, Sumit, “Inheritance and the Evolution of Networks across Generations”, with A. Mahmud, S. Sarangi and H. Tzavellas, May 2020.

Joshi, Sumit, “Sanctions in Networks,” with Ahmed Saber Mahmud, May 2020. Revise and resubmit to European Economic Review.

Joshi, Sumit, “Multiplex Formation”, with A. Mahmud and H. Tzavellas, May 2020.

Weinberger, Ariel, “Markups and Misallocation with Evidence with Evidence from Exchange Rate Shocks” Journal of Development Economics, 146, September 2020.

Chen, Maggie, “Geographic Connectivity and Cross-border Investment: The Belts, Roads and Skies” (with Chuanhao Lin), Journal of Development Economics, September 2020.

Adida, Claire, Gottlieb, Jessica, Kramon, Eric and Gwyneth McClendon, “When Does Information Influence Voters: The Joint Importance of Salience and Coordination”, Comparative Political Studies, May 2020.

Petkovik, J., Jull, J., Yoganathan, O.D., Baird, S., Grimshaw, J.M., Johansson, K.A., Kristjansson, E., McGowan, J., Moher, D., Petticrew, M., Robberstad, B., Shea, B., Tugwell, P., Volmink, J., Wells, G.A., Whitehead, M., Cuervo, L.G., White, H., Taljaard, M., and Welch, V. (2020). “Reporting of health equity considerations in cluster and individually randomized trials.” Trials, Vol. 21 (308).

Weinberger, Ariel, “Exporter Heterogeneity and Price Discrimination: A Quantitative View” (with Ina Simonovska and Jae Wook Jung), Journal of International Economics, 116, 103-124, 2019.

Jull, J., Graham, I.D., Krisjansson, E., Moher, D., Petkovic. J., Yoganathan, M. Tugwell, P., Welch, V., and the CONSORT-Equity and Boston Equity Symposium participants (Baird, S. is a participant in the CONSORT-Equity Boston Equity Symposium). (2019). “Taking an integrated knowledge translation approach in research to develop the CONSORT-Equity 2017 reporting guideline: an observational study.” BMJ Open, Vol. 9 (7).

Baird, S., McIntosh, C., and Özler, B. (2019) “When the Money Runs Out: Do Cash Transfers Have Sustained Effects?” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 140, pp. 169-185.

Baird, Sarah et. al. “Do Gender Attitudes and Norms Influence Physical and Mental Health during Adolescence? Evidence from Bangladesh and Ethiopia”, Social Science and Medicine Population Health, Dec 2019, Special issue: “Gender Empowerment and Health: From Measurement to Impact” Volume 9.

Kramon, Eric and Keith Weghorst, “(Mis)Measuring Sensitive Attitudes with the List Experiment: Solutions to List Experiment Breakdown in Kenya”, Public Opinion Quarterly, June 2019, Volume 83, Issue S1, 2019, Pages 236–263.

Jedwab, Remi with Dietrich Vollrath, The Urban Mortality Transition and Poor Country Urbanization, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 11, 223-75, January 2019.

Chiswick, Barry R. and Nicholas Larsen, “The Impact of Exposure to Missionaries on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants in the U.S, International Journal of Manpower”, March 2019.

Kaplan, Stephen B. and Michael Penfold, “The Story of the Creditor Trap: How China Reduced its Venezuelan Risk.”, Foreign Affairs Latino América., Jun 2019.

Brauner-Otto, S., Baird, S., Ghimire, D. (2019). “Maternal employment and child health in Nepal: The importance of job type and timing across the child’s first five years.” Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 224, pp. 94-105.

Brinkerhoff, Jennifer M., Graham, Benjamin T., “Mobile Innovators, Stanford Social Innovation Review”, Sep 2019, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Fall 2019): 40-45.

Brinkerhoff, Jennifer M., Johnson, Jasmine McGinnis, and Dangis Gudelis, “Are Our Assumptions about Diaspora and Immigrant Philanthropy Generalizable? Exploring the Relevance to High-Income Countries of Origin, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly”, Oct 2019, Vol. 48, No. 5 (2019): 1094-1109.

Fennell, Melanie A. and Irene R. Foster, “Revisiting the Role of a Basic Math Assessment in Predicting Student Performance in Principles of Microeconomics”, Journal of Economics and Economics Education Research, 2019, Volume 20, Issue 2, 2019.

Huang, Cheng, Zhang, Shiying, Zhao, Qingguo and Yan Lin “Dragon year superstition, birth timing, and neonatal health outcomes” China Economic Review.

Huang, Cheng, Zhang, Shiying, and Qingguo Zhao, “The early bird catches the worm? School entry cutoff and the timing of births” Journal of Development Economics Volume 143, 2019.

Huang, Cheng, Xiaojing Ma, Shiying Zhang, Qingguo Zhao. “Numerological preferences, timing of births and the long-term effect on schooling” Journal of Population Economics, In press.

Sinclair, Tara with Mariano Mamertino, Migration and online job search: A gravity model approach, Forthcoming, Economics Letters, Vol. 181, 51-53, August 2019.

Smith, Stephen, “A Health Voice Messaging Intervention to Improve Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Senegal,” with S. Downs, J. Fanzo, J. Kalaj, and J. Sackey, Maternal & Child Nutrition, Volume 15, Issue 4, October 2019.

Pelzman, Joseph and Murat Isaabayev, “A Model of FDI Spillover in a Natural Resource Rich LDC”, Resources Policy, Vol.64, December 2019.

Petroni, S., Yates, R., Siddiqi, M., Luo, C., Finnie, A., Walker, D., Welbourn, A., Langevin-Falcon, C., Cappa, C., Palermo, T., Ngo, T., Baird, S., Makokha, J., Singh, S., Paul, M., Ndlovu, P., Mannikko, R., Raj, A., Ameyan, W., Okondo, H., Mouli Venkatraman, C. (2019). “Understanding the Relationships between HIV and Child Marriage: Conclusions from an Expert Consultation.” Journal of Adolescent Health, Vol. 64(6), pp. 694-696.

Song, Chen and Chao Wei, “Unemployment or Out of the Labor Force: A Perspective from Time Allocation, Labour Economics”, Dec 2019.

Chhibber, Ajay with FICCI Economics Team, “Envisioning India 2030,” Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, 2018

Smith, Stephen C. with Munshi Sulaiman, “Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 100(4), 1012-1031, July 2018

Smith, Stephen C. with Uwe Jirjahn, “Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils,” Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Vol 89(1), 201-234, March 2018

Malik, Arun S. with Aaron A. Elrod, “The effect of environmental regulation on plant-level product mix: A study of EPA’s Cluster Rule,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 83, 164-184, May 2017

Kramon, Eric, “Electoral Handouts as Information,” World Politics, May 2016.

Kramon, Eric with Daniel N. Posner, “Ethnic Favoritism in Education in Kenya,”Quarterly Journal of Political Science, April 2016.

Chhibber, Ajay, “Assessing and Evaluating the Addis Ababa Action Agenda(AAAA),”India National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, March 2016.

Smith, Stephen C. with Verena Dill and Uwe Jirjahn, “Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 40, 123–140, January 2016.

Alkire, Sabina with Jose Manuel Roche, Suman Seth and Andy Sumner, “Identifying the Poorest People and Groups: Strategies Using the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index,” Journal of International Development, 27 (2015), 362-387.

Jedwab, Remi, Miguel, Edward, Burgess, Robin, Morjaria, Ameet, and Padro-i-Miguel, Gerard, “The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya,”American Economic Review, 2015. Vol. 105 (6): 1817-51.

DuBois King, Marcus, “Climate Change and Vietnamese Fisheries: Opportunities for Conflict Prevention” 2015, Center for Climate and Security, pp. 55-63.

Smith, Stephen C. with M. Shahe Emran and Fenohasina Maret-Rakotondrazaka, “Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam,”Journal of Development Studies, Vol 50, No. 4, pages 481-501, April 2014.

Smith, Stephen C. with M. Shahe Emran and Virginia Robano, “Assessing the Frontiers of Ultra-Poverty Reduction: Evidence from CFPR/TUP, an Innovative Program in Bangladesh,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, February 2014.

Smith, Stephen C. with Sungil Kwak, “Regional Agricultural Endowments and Shifts of Poverty Trap Equilibria: Evidence from Ethiopian Panel Data,” Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming.

Carrillo, Paul “To Sell or Not to Sell: Measuring the Heat of the Housing Market,”2013, Real Estate Economics, 41(2), 310-346.

Carrillo, Paul ““Testing for Fraud in the Residential Mortgage Market: How much did Early-Payment-Defaults Overpay for Housing?” 2013, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 47(1), 36-64.

Baird, Sarah with Jacobus Joost de Hoop and Berk Özler. “Income Shocks and Adolescent Mental Health,” Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 48(2), 2013, pp. 370-403.

Castleman, Tony with Anema, Aranka, Sarah Fielden, Nils Grede, Amie Heap, and Martin Bloem, “Food Security in the Context of HIV: Towards Harmonized Definitions and Indicators.” AIDS and Behavior, November 29, 2013 (Epub ahead of print publication).

Baird, Sarah with Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Berk Özler, Michael Woolcock ” Relative Effectiveness of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers for Schooling Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review” ,February 9, 2013

Carrillo, Paul with Shahe Emran, ” Public Information and Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” 2012, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 94(4), 860-877.

Carrillo, Paul E. “An Empirical Stationary Equilibrium Search Model of the Housing Market,” 2012, International Economic Review, 53(1), pages 203-234.

Carrillo, Paul E. with Jaren Pope, “Are Homes Hot or Cold Potatoes? The Distribution of Marketing Time in the Housing Market,”Regional Science and Urban EconomicsVol. 42 No. 1-2 pp. 189-197. 2012.

Smith, Stephen C., “The Scope of Nongovernmental Organizations and Development Program Design: Application to Problems of Multidimensional Poverty,” Public Administration and Development Vol. 32 Issue 4-5, 357-370. October 2012.

Smith, Stephen C., with Saudamini Das, “Awareness as an Adaptation Strategy for Reducing Mortality from Heat Waves: Evidence from a Disaster Risk Management Program in India,” Climate Change Economics Vol. 3 No. 2. May 2012.

Smith, Stephen C. and Malik, Arun S., “Adaptation to Climate Change in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Current Research and Needs from Future Research,” Climate Change Economics Vol. 3 No. 2. May 2012.

Castleman, Tony with Gilles Bergeron. “ “Program Responses to Acute Malnutrition and Chronic Malnutrition: Divergences and Convergences.” Advances in NutritionMarch 2012. 3: 242-249.

Carrillo, Paul, with Akashi-Ronquest, Naoko, Bruce Dembling, and Steven Stern, “Measuring the Biases in Self-reported Disability Status: Evidence from Aggregate Data,” Applied Economics Letters Vol. 18 No. 11. 2011.

Carrillo, Paul. “Testing for Fraud in the Residential Mortgage Market: How Much Did Early-Payment-Defaults Overpay for Housing?,” The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, pp. 1-29. 2011.

Foster, James with Sabina Alkire, “Counting And Multidimensional Poverty Measurement,” Journal Of Public Economics Vol. 95 No. 7-8, pp. 476-87. 2011.

Foster, James with Sabina Alkire, “Understandings And Misunderstandings Of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement,” Journal Of Economic Inequality Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 289-314. 2011

Foster, James with Sabina Alkire, “Where did identification go?,” Journal of Economic Inequality Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 501-505. 2011.

Suranovic, Steven, “Addicted to Oil: Implications for Climate Change Policy,”November 2011.

Lustig, Nora, co-editor with Jacques Silber (Bar Ilan University, Israel), special issue of Estudios Economicos – “Poverty and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean,” El Colegio de Mexico

Foster, James, with Joel Greer, and Erik Thorbecke, “The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: 25 Years Later,” Journal Of Economic Inequality Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 491-524. 2010.

Foster, James E., with Michael C. Wolfson, “Polarization And The Decline Of The Middle Class: Canada And The U.S.,” Journal Of Economic Inequality Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 247-273. 2010

Emran, M. Shahe with Forhad Shilpi, “Estimating Import Demand Function in Developing Countries: A Structural Econometric Approach with Applications to India and Sri Lanka,” Review of International Economics, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 307-319. May 2010.

Malik, Arun, “How Should We Tackle the Forest Fire Problem?,” Ian Parry and Felicia Day (Eds.), Resources for the Future Press,(2010), pp. 134-135.

Castleman, Tony with Matlisky, Danielle, Kenneth Maleta, and Mark Manary. “Supplementary Feeding with Fortified Spreads Results in Higher Recovery Rates Than with a Corn/Soy Blend in Moderately Wasted Children.” Journal of Nutrition. 139: 773-778, 2009.

Carrillo, Paul, with Anthony Yezer, “Alternative Measures Of Homeownership Gaps Across Segregated Neighborhoods,” Regional Science And Urban Economics Vol. 39 No. 5, pp. 542-52. 2009.

Carrillo, Paul E., with Juan Ponce Jarrin, “Efficient Delivery Of Subsidies To The Poor: Improving The Design Of A Cash Transfer Program In Ecuador,” Journal Of Development Economics Vol. 90 No. 2, pp. 276-284. 2009.

Malik, Arun, with Christian Crowley, Gregory Amacher and Robert Haight, “Adjacency Externalities and Forest Fire Prevention,” Land Economics, Vol. 85, No. 1, pp. 162-185 (2009).

Emran, Shahe M. with F. Shilpi, and M. Alam: “Economic Liberalization and Price Response of Aggregate Private Investment: Time Series Evidence from India”, Canadian Journal of Economics.

Smith, Stephen C., “Organizational Comparative Advantages of NGOs in Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger: Strategy for Escape from Poverty Traps,” in NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith and Hildy Teegen, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Smith, Stephen C., “Beyond the ‘Non’: The Strategic Space for NGOs in Development,” with J. Brinkerhoff and H. Teegen, in NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith and Hildy Teegen, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Smith, Stephen C., “The Role of NGOs in Health, Education, Environment, and Gender: Application of the Theoretical Framework,” with J. Brinkerhoff and H. Teegen, in NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith and Hildy Teegen, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Smith, Stephen C., “Conclusions and Policy Implications,” with J. Brinkerhoff and H. Teegen, in NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith and Hildy Teegen, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Aaronson, Susan, “Fair Trade? How Oxfam Presented a Systemic Approach to Globalization, Human Rights and Development,” Human Rights Quarterly, November 2006, Vol. 28, No. 4, 998-1030.

Charnovitz, Steve, “Taiwan’s WTO Membership and Its International Implications,” Asian Journal of the WTO and International Health Law & Policy, September 2006.Sell, Susan “Intellectual Property and the Doha Development Agenda” Global Social Policy, vol. 6, issue 2, pp. 147-150, August 2006.

Smith, Stephen C. with Jan Erik Askildsen and Uwe Jirjahn, “Works Councils and Environmental Investment: Theory and Evidence from German Panel Data,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 60, issue 3, pp. 346-72, July 2006.

Smith, Stephen C. with Tony Castleman, “Ending Extreme Poverty: Securing Human Rights Can Be Decisive”, (in Spanish) Letras Libres, April 2006. Reprinted, in Ius Inter Gentes

Carrillo, Paul, with Edgar Olsen, Catherine Tyler and Jonathan King, “The Effects of Different Types of Housing Assistance on Earnings and Employment,” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 2005, 8(2).

Carrillo, Paul, with Edgar Olsen and Scott Davis, “Explaining Attrition in the Housing Voucher Program,” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 2005, 8(2).

Charnovitz, Steve, “Belgian Family Allowances and the Challenge of Origin-Based Discrimination,” World Trade Review, March 2005.

Emran, M. Shahe, “Revenue-Increasing and Welfare-Enhancing Reform of Taxes on Exports” Journal of Development Economics, vol. 77, issue 1, pp. 277-92, June 2005.

Emran, M. Shahe with Josephn Stiglitz, “On Selective Indirect Tax Reform in Developing Countries,” Journal of Public Economics, vol. 89, issue 4, pp. 599-623, April 2005.

Malik, Arun, “Not Getting Burned: The Importance of Fire Prevention in Forest Management,” with Gregory Amacher and Robert Haight, Land Economics, Vol. 81, pp. 284-302.

Lustig, Nora, (coauthor), “Do We Know How Much Poverty There Is?” Oxford Development Studies, 32(4), December 2004.

Sell, Susan “The Quest for Global Governance in Intellectual Property and Public Health: Structural, Discursive and Institutional Dimensions” Temple Law Review 77, pp. 363- 399, Summer 2004.

Lustig, Nora, (coauthor), “Rising Inequality in Mexico: Returns to Household Characteristics and Regional Effects,” Journal of Development Studies, 39(4), 112-33, April 2003.

Smith, Stephen C. with Hesuk Chun “New Issues in Emerging Markets: Determinants, Effects, and Stock Market Performance of Initial Public Offerings in South Korea,”, Journal of Emerging Market Finance,”, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 253-85 ,December 2003.

Smith, Stephen C. with Beom-cheol Cin and Tzu Shian Han, “A Tale of Two Tigers: Employee Financial Participation in Korea and Taiwan,”, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Sept. 2003.

Smith, Stephen C. with Beom-cheol Cin, “Employee Stock Ownership and Participation in South Korea: Incidence, Productivity Effects, and Prospects,” Review of Development Economics, vol. 6, issue 2, pp. 263-83, June 2002.

Smith, Stephen C., “Village Banking and Maternal and Child Health: Evidence from Ecuador and Honduras,” World Development, vol. 30, issue 4, pp. 707-23, April 2002.

Smith, Stephen C. with Randa Sab “Human Capital Convergence: A Joint Estimation Approach,”, IMF Staff Papers, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 200-11, August 2002.

Smith, Stephen C., with Edward Feasel and Yongbeom Kim, “Investment, Exports, and Output in South Korea: A VAR Approach to Growth Empirics,” Review of Development Economics, vol. 5, issue 3, pp. 421-32, October 2001.

Smith, Stephen C., “Microcredit and Health Programs: To Integrate or Not to Integrate?” in Rosalia Rodriguez Garcia, James Macinko, and William Waters, ed., Microenterprise Development for Better Health Outcomes, (Contributions to Economics and Economic History), Westport, CT: Greenwood, 41 50, 2001.

Sarah Baird

Associate Professor of Global Health and Economics

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