Research

Yale School of Management

Publications

· “The Transforming Power of Democracy: Regime Type and the Distribution of Electricity” American Political Science Review May 2009 (with D. Brown) Paper

· “Democracy, Volatility and Economic Development,” The Review of Economics and Statistics 87 (2), May 2005 Paper

· "The Impact of Urban Spatial Structure on Travel Demand in the U.S.," The Review of Economics and Statistics 87 (3), August 2005 (with A. Bento, M. Cropper, K.Vinha) Paper

· “Does Rising Income Increase or Decrease Damage Risk from Natural Disasters?,” Journal of Urban Economics (forthcoming) Paper

· “Measuring Financial Development in the Middle East and North Africa—A New Database,” IMF Staff Papers 53 (3): 479-511, April 2007 Paper

Papers

v “Protection for Sale to Firms: Evidence from Indonesia” (with D. Purbasari) Paper (May 2006 version)

v “Marriage Market Effects of a Wealth Shock in Bangladesh,” (with R. Kuhn and C. Peters) Paper (May 2007 version)

v “Foreign Graduate Students and Knowledge Creation at U.S. Universities: Evidence from Enrollment Fluctuations,” Preliminary Draft (November 2006)

v “The Costs of Decentralization: Water Quality Spillovers from the Re-drawing of County Boundaries in Brazil (with M. Lipscomb) Preliminary Draft (July 2007)

v “Democracy and Policy Stability” (with P. Dutt) Paper (August 2007)

v “The Political Economy of Health Service Provision and Access in Brazil” (with A. Rajkumar, M. Cropper) Paper (November 2006 version)

In Progress

· “The Causes and Consequences of Indoor Air Pollution: A Randomized Intervention Study in Bangladesh Abstract

· “Partner Search by Multinational Corporations in a Corrupt Environment,” (with D. Purbasari) Preliminary Draft

· “Does Income Inequality Hinder Technology Diffusion? Information Exchange across Social Classes in Pakistan (with U. Serajuddin) Extended Abstract

· “Single Cell Protein Aquafeed: Experimental Investigation of New Technology Adoption in Bangladesh,” National Science Foundation MUSES funded Project

· “Socio-Economic and Biological Trade-offs of Consanguinity in an Arranged Marriage Market,” National Science Foundation ‘Human and Social Dynamics’ Project

· “Democracy and Economic Performance: Micro Evidence from Brazil” Paper (2002)

· “Are Dictators Held Accountable? Wars, Crises, Sanctions, Disasters and Economic Performance” (with D. Baker) Extended Abstract

Other Publications from an IMF Project:

(all with S. Creane, R. Goyal, and R. Sab of the IMF)

· “Financial Sector Development in the Middle East and North Africa” IMF Working Paper 04/201

· “Banking on Development.” Finance and Development 40(1), March 2003. (with S. Creane, R. Goyal, R. Sab) English French Spanish Arabic

· “Evaluating Financial Sector Development in the Middle East and North Africa: New Methodology and Some New Results,” Journal of the Middle East Economic Association, volume 6, 2004.

· “Financial Development in the Middle East and North Africa,” International Monetary Fund Pamphlet, 2003. (with S. Creane, R. Goyal, R. Sab) English Arabic

· “Financial Development and Economic Growth in the Middle East and North Africa,” Newsletter of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey 10(2), Summer 2003

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