Publications of Duncan Thomas

Journal Articles

  1. Thomas, D; Strauss, J; Henriques, M, Child survival, height for age and household characteristics in Brazil., Journal of development economics, vol. 33 no. 2 (October, 1990), pp. 197-234, ISSN 0304-3878
  2. Thomas, D, Gender differences in household resource allocations, World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study Working Paper, vol. 79 (January, 1991)
  3. Strauss, J; Barbosa, M; Teixeira, S; Thomas, D; Gomes Junior, R, Role of education and extension in the adoption of technology: A study of upland rice and soybean farmers in Central-West Brazil, Agricultural Economics, vol. 5 no. 4 (January, 1991), pp. 341-359, WILEY, ISSN 0169-5150
  4. Thomas, D, Testing for sectoral differences in child anthropometric status in Zimbabwe: A comment, Health Policy and Planning, vol. 7 no. 2 (June, 1992), pp. 181-186, Oxford University Press (OUP)
  5. Thomas, D; Strauss, J, Prices, infrastructure, household characteristics and child height., Journal of development economics, vol. 39 no. 2 (October, 1992), pp. 301-331, ISSN 0304-3878
  6. Thomas, D, Like father, like son; like mother, like daughter: parental resources and child height, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 29 no. 4 (January, 1994), pp. 950-988, JSTOR
  7. Thomas, D; Muvandi, I, How fast is fertility declining in Botswana and Zimbabwe?, World Bank Discussion Papers, vol. 258 (January, 1994)
  8. Thomas, D; Muvandi, I, The demographic transition in southern Africa: reviewing the evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe., Demography, vol. 31 no. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 217-227, ISSN 0070-3370
  9. Thomas, D; Muvandi, I, The demographic transition in southern Africa: another look at the evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe., Demography, vol. 31 no. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 185-207, ISSN 0070-3370
  10. Currie, J; Thomas, D, Medical care for children: public insurance, private insurance, and racial differences in utilization, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 30 no. 1 (January, 1995), pp. 135-162, JSTOR
  11. Thomas, D; Maluccio, J, Contraceptive choice, fertility, and public policy in Zimbabwe, World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study Working Paper, vol. 109 (January, 1995), pp. 43-US$6.95
  12. Lavy, V; Strauss, J; Thomas, D; De Vreyer, P, The impact of the quality of health care on children's nutrition and survival in Ghana, World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study Working Paper, vol. 106 (January, 1995)
  13. Thomas, D; Maluccio, J, Fertility, contraceptive choice, and public policy in Zimbabwe, World Bank Economic Review, vol. 10 no. 1 (January, 1996), pp. 189-222, Oxford University Press (OUP)
  14. Thomas, D; Lavy, V; Strauss, J, Public policy and anthropometric outcomes in the Côte d'Ivoire, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 61 no. 2 (January, 1996), pp. 155-192, Elsevier BV
  15. Thomas, D, Education Across Generations in South Africa, American Economic Review, vol. 86 no. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 330-334
  16. Strauss, J; Thomas, D, Measurement and Mismeasurement of Social Indicators, American Economic Review, vol. 86 no. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 30-34
  17. Lavy, V; Strauss, J; Thomas, D; de Vreyer, P, Quality of health care, survival and health outcomes in Ghana., Journal of health economics, vol. 15 no. 3 (June, 1996), pp. 333-357, ISSN 0167-6296
  18. Thomas, D; Strauss, J, Health and wages: evidence on men and women in urban Brazil., Journal of econometrics, vol. 77 no. 1 (January, 1997), pp. 159-185
  19. Smith, JP; Thomas, D, On the road. Marriage and mobility in Malaysia, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 33 no. 4 (January, 1998), pp. 805-832, JSTOR
  20. Strauss, J; Thomas, D, Health, Nutrition, and Economic Development, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 36 no. 2 (June, 1998), pp. 766-817
  21. Currie, J; Thomas, D, The intergenerational transmission of "intelligence": Down the slippery slopes of The Bell Curve, Industrial Relations, vol. 38 no. 3 (January, 1999), pp. 297-330, WILEY
  22. Currie, J; Thomas, D, Does Head Start help hispanic children?, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 74 no. 2 (January, 1999), pp. 235-262, Elsevier BV
  23. Thomas, D; Frankenberg, E, The measurement and interpretation of health in social surveys (2000), RAND
  24. Currie, J; Thomas, D, Early test scores, school quality and SES: Longrun effects on wage and employment outcomes, Research in Labor Economics, vol. 20 (January, 2001), pp. 103-132, Emerald (MCB UP ), ISSN 0147-9121
  25. Thomas, D; Frankenberg, E; Smith, JP, Lost but not forgetten: Attrition and follow-up in the Indonesia family life survey, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 36 no. 3 (January, 2001), pp. 556-592, JSTOR, ISSN 0022-166X
  26. Frankenberg, E; Thomas, D, Women's health and pregnancy outcomes: do services make a difference?, Demography, vol. 38 no. 2 (May, 2001), pp. 253-265, ISSN 0070-3370
  27. Beegle, K; Frankenberg, E; Thomas, D, Bargaining power within couples and use of prenatal and delivery care in Indonesia., Studies in family planning, vol. 32 no. 2 (June, 2001), pp. 130-146, ISSN 0039-3665
  28. Thomas, D; Frankenberg, E, Health, nutrition and prosperity: a microeconomic perspective., Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol. 80 no. 2 (January, 2002), pp. 106-113, ISSN 0042-9686
  29. Smith, JP; Thomas, D; Frankenberg, E; Beegle, K; Teruel, G, Wages, employment and economic shocks: Evidence from Indonesia, Journal of Population Economics, vol. 15 no. 1 (January, 2002), pp. 161-193, Springer Nature
  30. Garces, E; Thomas, D; Currie, J, Longer-term effects of head start, American Economic Review, vol. 92 no. 4 (September, 2002), pp. 999-1012, American Economic Association
  31. Frankenberg, E; Smith, JP; Thomas, D, Economic shocks, wealth, and welfare, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 38 no. 2 (January, 2003), pp. 280-321, JSTOR
  32. Smith, JP; Thomas, D, Remembrances of things past: Test-retest reliability of retrospective migration histories, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society, vol. 166 no. 1 (December, 2003), pp. 23-49, WILEY, ISSN 0964-1998
  33. Thomas, D; Beegle, K; Frankenberg, E; Sikoki, B; Strauss, J; Teruel, G, Education in a crisis, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 74 no. 1 (June, 2004), pp. 53-85, Elsevier BV
  34. Frankenberg, E; McKee, D; Thomas, D, Health consequences of forest fires in Indonesia., Demography, vol. 42 no. 1 (February, 2005), pp. 109-129, ISSN 0070-3370
  35. Frankenberg, E; Suriastini, W; Thomas, D, Can expanding access to basic healthcare improve children's health status? Lessons from Indonesia's 'midwife in the village' programme., Population studies, vol. 59 no. 1 (March, 2005), pp. 5-19, ISSN 0032-4728
  36. Seltzer, JA; Bachrach, CA; Bianchi, SM; Bledsoe, CH; Casper, LM; Chase-Lansdale, PL; Diprete, TA; Hotz, VJ; Morgan, SP; Sanders, SG; Thomas, D, Explaining Family Change and Variation: Challenges for Family Demographers., Journal of marriage and the family, vol. 67 no. 4 (November, 2005), pp. 908-925, ISSN 0022-2445
  37. Gillespie, TW; Chu, J; Frankenberg, E; Thomas, D, Assessment and Prediction of Natural Hazards from Satellite Imagery., Progress in physical geography, vol. 31 no. 5 (October, 2007), pp. 459-470, ISSN 0309-1333
  38. Rubalcava, LN; Teruel, GM; Thomas, D; Goldman, N, The healthy migrant effect: new findings from the Mexican Family Life Survey., American journal of public health, vol. 98 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 78-84, ISSN 0090-0036
  39. Stillman, S; Thomas, D, Nutritional status during an economic crisis: Evidence from Russia, Economic Journal, vol. 118 no. 531 (August, 2008), pp. 1385-1417, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0013-0133
  40. Frankenberg, E; Friedman, J; Gillespie, T; Ingwersen, N; Pynoos, R; Rifai, IU; Sikoki, B; Steinberg, A; Sumantri, C; Suriastini, W; Thomas, D, Mental health in Sumatra after the tsunami., American journal of public health, vol. 98 no. 9 (September, 2008), pp. 1671-1677
  41. Friedman, J; Thomas, D, Psychological Health Before, During, and After an Economic Crisis: Results from Indonesia, 1993 - 2000., The World Bank economic review, vol. 23 no. 1 (January, 2009), pp. 57-76, ISSN 0258-6770
  42. Rubalcava, L; Teruel, G; Thomas, D, Investments, time preferences and public transfers paid to women., Economic development and cultural change, vol. 57 no. 3 (April, 2009), pp. 507-538, ISSN 0013-0079
  43. Frankenberg, E; Thomas, D, Global aging (January, 2011), pp. 73-89, Elsevier
  44. Frankenberg, E; Gillespie, T; Preston, S; Sikoki, B; Thomas, D, MORTALITY, THE FAMILY AND THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI., Economic journal (London, England), vol. 121 no. 554 (August, 2011), pp. F162-F182, ISSN 0013-0133
  45. Beltrán-Sánchez, H; Crimmins, EM; Teruel, GM; Thomas, D, Links between childhood and adult social circumstances and obesity and hypertension in the Mexican population., Journal of aging and health, vol. 23 no. 7 (October, 2011), pp. 1141-1165, ISSN 0898-2643
  46. Beltran-Sanchez, H; Thomas, D; Wheaton, F; Crimmins, E, SMOKING ONSET AND CESSATION IN MEXICO, GERONTOLOGIST, vol. 51 (November, 2011), pp. 391-391, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, ISSN 0016-9013
  47. McKelvey, C; Thomas, D; Frankenberg, E, Fertility Regulation in an Economic Crisis., Economic development and cultural change, vol. 61 no. 1 (October, 2012), pp. 7-38, ISSN 0013-0079
  48. Currie, J; Thomas, D, Introduction to "early test scores, school quality and ses: Longrun effects on wage and employment outcomes", Research in Labor Economics, vol. 35 (December, 2012), pp. 181-183, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ISSN 0147-9121
  49. Frankenberg, E; Sikoki, B; Sumantri, C; Suriastini, W; Thomas, D, Education, Vulnerability, and Resilience after a Natural Disaster., Ecology and society : a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, vol. 18 no. 2 (January, 2013), pp. 16, ISSN 1708-3087
  50. Beltrán-Sánchez, H; Thomas, D; Teruel, G; Wheaton, F; Crimmins, EM, Links between socio-economic circumstances and changes in smoking behavior in the Mexican population: 2002-2010., Journal of cross-cultural gerontology, vol. 28 no. 3 (September, 2013), pp. 339-358, ISSN 0169-3816
  51. Weaver, EH; Frankenberg, E; Fried, BJ; Thomas, D; Wheeler, SB; Paul, JE, Effect of village midwife program on contraceptive prevalence and method choice in Indonesia., Studies in family planning, vol. 44 no. 4 (December, 2013), pp. 389-409, ISSN 0039-3665
  52. Cas, AG; Frankenberg, E; Suriastini, W; Thomas, D, The Impact of Parental Death on Child Well-being: Evidence From the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Demography, vol. 51 no. 2 (2014), pp. 437-457, ISSN 0070-3370
  53. Gray, C; Frankenberg, E; Gillespie, T; Sumantri, C; Thomas, D, Studying Displacement After a Disaster Using Large Scale Survey Methods: Sumatra After the 2004 Tsunami., Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers, vol. 104 no. 3 (January, 2014), pp. 594-612, ISSN 0004-5608
  54. Gillespie, TW; Frankenberg, E; Chum, KF; Thomas, D, Nighttime lights time series of tsunami damage, recovery, and economic metrics in Sumatra, Indonesia., Remote sensing letters (Print), vol. 5 no. 3 (January, 2014), pp. 286-294, ISSN 2150-704X
  55. Hamoudi, A; Thomas, D, Endogenous coresidence and program incidence: South Africa's Old Age Pension., Journal of development economics, vol. 109 (July, 2014), pp. 30-37, ISSN 0304-3878
  56. Nobles, J; Frankenberg, E; Thomas, D, The effects of mortality on fertility: population dynamics after a natural disaster., Demography, vol. 52 no. 1 (February, 2015), pp. 15-38, ISSN 0070-3370
  57. Elo, IT; Frankenberg, E; Gansey, R; Thomas, D, Africans in the American Labor Market., Demography, vol. 52 no. 5 (October, 2015), pp. 1513-1542, ISSN 0070-3370
  58. Ho, J; Frankenberg, E; Sumantri, C; Thomas, D, Adult Mortality Five Years after a Natural Disaster: Evidence from the Indian Ocean Tsunami (June, 2016)
  59. LaFave, D; Thomas, D, Farms, Families, and Markets: New Evidence on Completeness of Markets in Agricultural Settings., Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, vol. 84 no. 5 (September, 2016), pp. 1917-1960
  60. Frankenberg, E; Thomas, D, Human Capital and Shocks: Evidence on Education, Health and Nutrition, NBER (April, 2017)
  61. LaFave, D; Thomas, D, Height and cognition at work: Labor market productivity in a low income setting., Economics and human biology, vol. 25 (May, 2017), pp. 52-64
  62. Ho, JY; Frankenberg, E; Sumantri, C; Thomas, D, Adult Mortality Five Years after a Natural Disaster., Population and development review, vol. 43 no. 3 (September, 2017), pp. 467-490
  63. Thomas, D; Seeman, T; Potter, A; Hu, P; Crimmins, E; Herningtyas, EH; Sumantri, C; Frankenberg, E, HPLC-based Measurement of Glycated Hemoglobin using Dried Blood Spots Collected under Adverse Field Conditions., Biodemography and social biology, vol. 64 no. 1 (January, 2018), pp. 43-62
  64. Brown, R; Montalva, V; Thomas, D; Velásquez, A, Impact of violent crime on risk aversion: Evidence from the mexican drug war, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 101 no. 5 (December, 2019), pp. 892-904
  65. LaFave, D; Peet, E; Thomas, D, Farm Profits, Prices and Household Behavior (January, 2020)
  66. A. Rangel, M; Thomas, D, Decision-Making in Complex Households (January, 2020)
  67. Frankenberg, E; Sumantri, C; Thomas, D, Effects of a natural disaster on mortality risks over the longer term., Nature sustainability, vol. 3 no. 8 (August, 2020), pp. 614-619
  68. Thomas, D; Lawton, R; Brown, T; Kranton, R, Prevalence, severity and distribution of depression and anxiety symptoms using observational data collected before and nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic., Lancet regional health. Americas, vol. 1 (September, 2021), pp. 100009
  69. Laurito, MM; Frankenberg, E; Thomas, D, Effects of Housing Aid on Psychosocial Health after a Disaster., International journal of environmental research and public health, vol. 19 no. 12 (June, 2022), pp. 7302
  70. Beach, B; Brown, R; Ferrie, J; Saavedra, M; Thomas, D, Reevaluating the Long-Term Impact of In Utero Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic., The journal of political economy, vol. 130 no. 7 (July, 2022), pp. 1963-1990
  71. Karlamangla, AS; Almeida, DM; Lachman, ME; Merkin, SS; Thomas, D; Seeman, TE, Diurnal dynamic range as index of dysregulation of system dynamics. A cortisol examplar using data from the Study of Midlife in the United States., Psychoneuroendocrinology, vol. 142 (August, 2022), pp. 105804
  72. Ingwersen, N; Frankenberg, E; Thomas, D, Evolution of Risk Aversion over Five Years after a Major Natural Disaster., Journal of development economics, vol. 163 (June, 2023), pp. 103095
  73. Lawton, R; Frankenberg, E; Seeman, T; Crimmins, E; Sumantri, C; Thomas, D, Exposure to the Indian Ocean Tsunami shapes the HPA-axis resulting in HPA "burnout" 14 years later., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 120 no. 44 (October, 2023), pp. e2306497120

Chapters in Books

  1. Strauss, J; Thomas, D, Chapter 34 Human resources: Empirical modeling of household and family decisions, in Handbook of Development Economics, vol. 3 no. PART A (December, 1995), pp. 1883-2023, Elsevier, ISSN 1573-4471, ISBN 9780444823014
  2. Thomas, D; Frankenberg, E, Household Responses to the Financial Crisis in Indonesia: Longitudinal Evidence on Poverty, Resources, and Well-Being, in Globalization and Poverty (2007), pp. 517-560
  3. Strauss, J; Thomas, D, Chapter 54 Health over the Life Course, in Handbook of Development Economics, vol. 4 (December, 2007), pp. 3375-3474, Elsevier, ISSN 1573-4471, ISBN 9780444531001
  4. Strauss, J; Thomas, D, HEALTH OVER THE LIFE COURSE, in HANDBOOK OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, VOL 4, vol. 9 (2008), pp. 3375-3474, ISBN 978-0-444-53100-1
  5. Frankenberg, E; Friedman, J; Saadah, F; Sikoki, B; Suriastini, W; Sumantri, C; Thomas, D, Assessment of Health and Education Services in the Aftermath of a Disaster, in ARE YOU BEING SERVED: NEW TOOLS FOR MEASURING SERVICE DELIVERY (2008), pp. 233-249, ISBN 978-0-8213-7185-5
  6. Thomas, D; Frankenberg, E, Comments on collecting and utilizing biological indicators in social science surveys, in Biosocial Surveys (January, 2008), pp. 149-155, National Academies Press, ISBN 9780309108676
  7. Frankenberg, E; Laurito, MM; Thomas, D, Demographic Impact of Disasters, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition (March, 2015), pp. 101-108, Elsevier, ISBN 9780080970868
  8. Thomas, D; Frankenberg, E, Experimental Methods in Survey Research in Demography, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition (March, 2015), pp. 559-565, Elsevier, ISBN 9780080970868
  9. Frankenberg, E; Ho, JY; Thomas, D, Biological health risks and economic development, in Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology, edited by Komlos, J; Kelly, IR (June, 2015), Oxford University Press
  10. Frankenberg, E; Friedman, J; Ingwersen, N; Thomas, D, Linear child growth after a natural disaster: a longitudinal study of the effects of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, LANCET, vol. 389 (April, 2017), pp. 21-21, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
  11. Frankenberg, E; Sumantri, C; Thomas, D, Understanding the Impacts of a Natural Disaster: Evidence from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, in Island Ecosystems (2023), pp. 151-166, Springer International Publishing, ISBN 9783031280887