Selected Papers
Papers below are available either as postscript or pdf documents.
Some people shy away from postscript because of bugs in the
postscript code generated by a variety of Microsoft products.
The postscript code on this page is well-behaved.
I've organized the papers by the type of model in the paper.
Dynamic Models with Private Information
- ``Risk-sharing and Information in Village Economies,'' 1998.
Review of Economic Studies 65(4): 847-864.
- ``Risk-sharing and Information: Theory and Measurement in Village Economies,'' 1997.
(This is a longer, working paper version of the REStud paper, with
some additional interesting analysis of financial transactions and
measurement error.)
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- ``Liquidity Constraints and Incentive Contracts'' (with A. Lehnert
and R. Townsend), 1999. Macroeconomic
Dynamics 3(1):1-47.
- ``Computing Private Information Equilibria: Moral Hazard in an Indian
Village,'' 1995.
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Dynamic Models with Limited Commitment
- ``Informal Insurance Arrangements with Limited Commitment: Theory and
Evidence from Village Economies'' (with J. P. Thomas and T. Worrall), 2002.
Review of Economic Studies 69(1):209-244.
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- ``Mutual Insurance, Individual Savings, and Limited Commitment'' (with
J. P. Thomas and T. Worrall), 2000. Review of Economic
Dynamics.: 3(3):1--47
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- ``Limited Commitment and the Evolution of Inequality in China''
2000.
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Dynamic Intra-household Allocation
- ``Dynamic Bargaining in Households'' (new revision, May 2002).
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- ``Incentives and Nutrition for Rotten Kids: Intrahousehold Food
Allocation in the Philippines'' (with P. Dubois), October 2003.
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- ``Dynamic Intrahousehold Bargaining, Matrimonial Property Law and Suicide in Canada" (with C. Adam and J. Hoddinott), 2003.
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Measuring Poverty, Risk, and Vulnerability
- ``Measuring Vulnerability" (with L. Schechter), 2003,
The Economic Journal 113.
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- ``Measuring Vulnerability: The Director's Cut,'' (with L. Schechter), 2002.
(This is a longer, working paper version of the EJ paper, with
some additional discussion of other approaches to measuring vulnerability and some methods for attributing idiosyncratic risk to particular sources.)
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- ``Targeting and Informal Insurance," Forthcoming in
Insurance Against Poverty, ed. Stefan Dercon.
Oxford University Press.
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- ``Evaluating Different Approaches to Estimating Vulnerability" (with L. Schechter), Social Protection Discussion Paper 0410,
World Bank.
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- ``Risk sharing", entry commissioned for The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition [pdf]
Dynamic Models with Common Property
- ``Computing the Equilibria of Dynamic Common Property Games'' (with U. Narain), (1997) Natural Resource Modeling 10(4):345-369.
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- ``Government Management of Village Commons: Comparing Two Forest
Policies'' (with U. Narain), 1998.
Journal of
Environmental Economics and Management 37:272-289.
Inference and Cross-sectional Dependence
Agricultural Contracts and Private Information