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- The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program: An Illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades. The World Bank Economic Review. 33:1-29. 2019
- Big Numbers about Small Children: Estimating the Economic Benefits of Addressing Undernutrition. The World Bank Research Observer. 32:107-125. 2017
- Evidence of impact of interventions on growth and development during early and middle childhood 2017
- Early life height and weight production functions with endogenous energy and protein inputs. Economics and Human Biology. 22:65-81. 2016
- The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program: An illustration from PROGRESA 2015
- A Framework for Physical Growth and Child Development 2015
- What determines adult cognitive skills? Influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala. Latin American Economic Review. 23:1-32. 2014
- Economic perspectives on integrating early child stimulation with nutritional interventions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1308:129-138. 2014
- Adult consequences of growth failure in early childhood. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION. 98:1170-1178. 2013
- The Economic Rationale for Investing in Stunting Reduction. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 9:69-82. 2013
- Parental Resources, Schooling Achievements, and Gender Schooling Gaps: Evidence of Change over 25 years in Rural Guatemala.. Population Research and Policy Review. 32:495-528. 2013
- Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries. LANCET. 378:1339-1353. 2011
- Out of sync? Demographic and other social science research on health conditions in developing countries. Demographic Research. 24:45-77. 2011
- The consequences of early childhood growth failure over the life course 2011
- Mothers’ Human Capital and the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: The Impact of Mothers’ Intellectual Human Capital and Long-Run Nutritional Status on Children’s Human Capital Guatemala 2010
- The Impact of Improving Nutrition During Early Childhood on Education Among Guatemalan Adults. ECONOMIC JOURNAL. 119:734-763. 2009
- Case study on the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and conditional cash transfer (CCT) and non-conditional cash transfer (NCCT) programs 2009
- Nutritional supplementation in girls influences the growth of their children: prospective study in Guatemala. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION. 90:1372-1379. 2009
- Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults. LANCET. 371:411-416. 2008
- What is the Real Impact of Schooling on Age of First Union and Age of First Parenting? New Evidence from Guatemala 2006
- The Impact of Nutrition during Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults 2006
- Reducing the Incidence of Low Birth Weight in Low-Income Countries Has Substantial Economic Benefits. World Bank Research Observer. 21:25-48. 2006
- Programme Evaluation with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Selective Implementation: The Mexican PROGRESA Impact on Child Nutrition. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 67:547-569. 2005
- Labor force activities and income among young Guatemalan adults.. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 26. 2005
- Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults.. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 26. 2005
- Food and Nutrition Bulletin [Supplement 1], The Human Capital 2002-04 study in Guatemala: a follow-up to the INCAP longitudical study 1969-77 2005
- Labor force activities and income among young Guatemalan adults 2005
- Levels, correlates, and differences in human, physical, and financial assets brought into marriages by young Guatemalan adults 2005
- Schooling, educational achievement, and cognitive functioning among young Guatemalan adults 2005
- The Human Capital Study 2002-04: tracking data collection, coverage, and attrition 2005
- An evaluation of the impact of PROGRESA on pre-school child height 2001
- Attrition in longitudinal household survey data: some tests for three developing country samples 2001
- Attrition in longitudinal household survey data, some tests for three developing-country samples 2000
- El impacto de PROGRESA sobre el rendimiento escolar durante el primer ano de operación 2000
- Attrition in Longitudinal Household Survey Data: Some Tests for Three Developing-Country Samples. Demographic Research. 5:79-124. 1999
- Child Nutrition, Child Health, and School Enrollment: A Longitudinal Analysis 1999
- A preliminary evaluation of the sample sizes used for the evaluation of the Education, Health, and Nutrition Program (PROGRESA) of Mexico 1999
- Evaluacion preliminar de los tamaños de muestra para la evaluación del Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) 1999
- Market Impacts of Technological Change for Sorghum in Indian Near-Subsistence Agriculture 1985
- SAT crop markets, scenario analysis of impacts of changes in technology, fertilizer prices, highways, labor markets, consumption expenditure, rainfall, price policy 1981
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- What determines adult cognitive skills?, Impacts of preschooling, schooling, and post-schooling experiences in Guatemala 2008
- The impact of an experimental nutritional intervention in childhood on education among Guatemalan adults 2006
- Improving child nutrition for sustainable poverty reduction in Africa 2004
- An evaluation of the impact of PROGRESA on preschool child height 2001
- Impact of PROGRESA on achievement test scores in the first year, final report 2000
- An evaluation of the selection of beneficiary households in the Education, Health, and Nutrition Program (PROGRESA) of Mexico, final report 1999
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- Economic and Nutritional Analyses Offer Substantial Synergies for Understanding Human Nutrition. Journal of Nutrition. 537-544. 2007