selected publications
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article
- Cotton Revolution and Widow Chastity in Ming and Qing China. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 103:232-252. 2021
- What constrains mechanization in Chinese agriculture? Role of farm size and fragmentation. China Economic Review. 62:101221. 2020
- Long-term impacts of an unanticipated spike in food prices on child growth in Indonesia. World Development. 113:330-343. 2019
- Gender asymmetries: Impacts of an early‐stage school intervention in the Philippines. Review of Development Economics. 22:220-241. 2018
- Toward labor market policy 2.0 : the potential for using online job-portal big data to inform labor market policies in India 2017
- Growing advantage of large farms in Asia and its implications for global food security. GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT. 11:5-10. 2016
- The future of small farms in Asia. Development Policy Review. 34:441-461. 2016
- Long-term impacts of an unanticipated risk event : the 2007/08 food price crisis and child growth in Indonesia 2016
- The Future of Small Farms in Asia 2015
- Wage Dynamics, Turnover, and Human Capital: Evidence from Adolescent Transition from School to Work in the Philippines 2015
- Roads, labor markets, and human capital : evidence from rural Indonesia 2014
- Population pressures, migration, and the returns to human capital and land : insights from Indonesia. Food Policy. 48:182-193. 2014
- Population density, migration, and the returns to human capital and land: Insights from Indonesia. Food Policy. 48:182-193. 2014
- School Resource and Performance Inequality : evidence from the Philippines 2014
- Factor Endowments, Wage Growth, and Changing Food Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from Country-Level Panel Data. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 95:1252-1258. 2013
- Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency, Evidence from country-level panel data 2013
- Impacts of an Early Stage Education Intervention on Students' Learning Achievement: Evidence from the Philippines. Journal of Development Studies. 49:208-222. 2013
- Why women are progressive in education?, Gender disparities in human capital, labor markets, and family arrangement in the Philippines. Economics of Education Review. vol. 32. 2013
- Impacts of an early stage education intervention on students' learning achievement : evidence from the Philippines. Journal of Development Studies. 49:1-38. 2012
- School quality, labor markets and human capital investments : long-term impacts of an early stage education intervention in the Philippines 2012
- Risks and spatial connectivity evidence from food price crisis in rural Indonesia. Food Policy. 37:383-389. 2012
- Risks and farmers’ investment in productive assets in Nigeria. Agricultural Economics. 43:143-153. 2012
- Why women are progressive in education?: Gender disparities in human capital, labor markets, and family arrangement in the Philippines 2012
- Are Schooling and Roads Complementary? Evidence from Income Dynamics in Rural Indonesia. World Development. 39:2232-2244. 2011
- School quality, clustering and government subsidy in post-apartheid South Africa. Economics of Education Review. 30:146-156. 2011
- Technical Change and the Returns and Investments in Firm-level Training: Evidence from Thailand. Journal of Development Studies. 45:1633-1650. 2009
- Natural disasters, self-insurance and human capital investment : evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi 2009
- Risks, ex-ante actions and public assistance : impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi 2009
- Marriage behavior response to prime-age adult mortality: Evidence from Malawi. Demography. 46:43-63. 2009
- Natural disasters, self-insurance, and human capital investment, Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi 2009
- Risks, ex-ante actions, and public assistance, Impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi 2009
- Nonmarket networks among migrants: evidence from metropolitan Bangkok, Thailand. Journal of Population Economics. 21:649-664. 2008
- Impacts of Prime‐age Adult Mortality on Labour Supply: Evidence from Adolescents and Women in South Africa. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 70:375-398. 2008
- Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: Evidence from South Africa. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 56:657-682. 2008
- Marriage behavior response to prime-age adult mortality, Evidence from Malawi 2008
- Social Learning, Neighborhood Effects, and Investment in Human Capital: Evidence from Green-Revolution India. Journal of Development Economics. 83:37-62. 2007
- Convergence over space and generations in the post-apartheid South Africa 2006
- Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context, evidence from South Africa 2006
- Gender, labor, and prime-age adult mortality, evidence from South Africa 2006
- Race, equity, and public schools in post-Apartheid South Africa: Equal opportunity for all kids. Economics of Education Review. 24:213-233. 2005
- Social learning, neighborhood effects, and investment in human capital, evidence from Green-Revolution India 2005
- Why do schooling returns differ? Screening, private schools, and labor markets in the Philippines and Thailand. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 53:959-981. 2005
- Are experience and schooling complementary? Evidence from migrants' assimilation in the Bangkok labor market. Journal of Development Economics. 74:489-513. 2004
- Is private school premium spurious?, the role of private schools in the Philippines 2003
- Nonmarket networks among migrants, evidence from metropolitan Bangkok, Thailand 2003
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chapter
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conference paper
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document
- Irrigation pumps and milling machines as insurance against rainfall and price risks in Nigeria 2012
- Impacts of an early education intervention on students' learning achievement, Evidence from the Philippines 2011
- Agriculture and climate change: Adaptation to climate change, Household impacts and institutional responses 2009
- Governance decentralization and local infrastructure provision in Indonesia 2009
- Human capital accumulation, migration, and the transition from urban poverty, Evidence from Nairobi slums 2009
- Spatial networks, labor supply, and income dynamics, Evidence from Indonesian villages 2009
- Marriage behavior response to prime-age adult mortality, Evidence from Malawi 2008
- Marriage, schooling, and excess mortality in prime-age adults, Evidence from South Africa 2008
- Social learning, selection, and HIV infection, Evidence from Malawi 2008
- Marriage, schooling, and excess mortality in prime-age adults, Evidence from South Africa 2007
- Community, inequality, and local public goods, evidence from school financing in South Africa 2005
- Race, equity, and public schools in post-apartheid South Africa, is opportunity equal for all kids? 2004
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working paper
- Are schooling and roads complementary?, Evidence from rural Indonesia 2010
- Climate change, perceptions and the heterogeneity of adaptation and rice productivity, Evidence from Indonesian villages 2010
- Has decentralization in Indonesia led to elite capture or reflection of majority preferences? 2010
- Impact of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth, Evidence from Indonesia 2010
- Impacts of AIDS on agricultural extension services in Malawi 2010
- Risks, ex-ante actions and public assistance, Impacts of natural disasters and child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi 2009
- Parental schooling, endowment and the accumulation of specific human capital, longitudinal evidence from Thailand 2004
- Technical change, workers' endowment and returns and investments in firm-level training, evidence from Thailand 2004