Harvard School of Public Health

Publications

Measuring pro-poor growth when relative prices shift (with Michael Grimm), 2007. Journal of Development Economics, 82 (1): 245-256.

Growth and Poverty in Burkina Faso. A Reassessment of the Paradox (with Michael Grimm), 2007. Journal of African Economies, 16 (1): 70-101.

Pro-Poor Growth in Burkina Faso. The Impact of Price Shocks (with Michael Grimm), 2007. In: M. Grimm, A. McKay and S. Klasen (eds.), Determinants of Pro-Poor Growth: Analytical Issues and Findings from 14 country case studies. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Empirical Analysis of Poverty Dynamics. With Case Studies from sub-Saharan Africa, 2007. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag.

Amartya Sen: Perspectives on the Economic and Human Development of India and China (eds. with Stephan Klasen), 2006. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.

Household linkages between the informal and formal sector (with Michael Grimm), 2006. In: B. Guha-Jhasnobis and R. Kanbur (eds.), Informal Labor Markets and Development, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Measuring Chronic Non-Income Poverty (with Stephan Klasen). In: T. Addison, D. Hulme and R. Kanbur (eds.), Poverty Dynamics: Towards Inter-Disciplinary Approaches, accepted for publication.

Working Papers

The Non-Farm Economy in Rural Ethiopia 1995-2005. Characteristics and Dynamics (with Markus Olapada), 2007. World Bank Background Paper.

Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets (with Andrey Launov), 2006. IZA Working Paper.

Estimating Vulnerability to Idiosyncratic and Covariate Shocks (with Kenneth Harttgen), 2006. IAI Discussion Paper.

La croissance est-elle pro-pauvre au Mali? (with Ali Marouani and Marc Raffinot), 2006. DIAL Working Paper.

How to achieve Pro-Poor Growth in a Poor Economy. The Case of Burkina Faso (with Michael Grimm), 2004. Report prepared for the Operationalizing Pro-Poor-Growth (OPPG) project by the World Bank, GTZ, DFID and AFD.

Work in Progress

Inequalities in Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge: Harvard University.

Expected Mortality and Fertility (with David Bloom, David Canning and Sebastian Linnemayr). Cambridge: Harvard University.

Poverty, Vulnerability and Loss Aversion (with Johannes Maier). Göttingen: University of Göttingen.

A Network Analysis of International Development Cooperation. Göttingen: University of Göttingen.