Publications of Alessandro Tarozzi
%% Papers Published
@article{fds184337,
Author = {A. Tarozzi and A. Deaton},
Title = {Using Census and Survey Data to Estimate Poverty and
Inequality for Small Areas},
Journal = {Review of Economics and Statistics},
Volume = {91},
Number = {4},
Pages = {773-792},
Year = {2009},
Key = {fds184337}
}
@article{fds161758,
Author = {A. Tarozzi},
Title = {Growth Reference Charts and the Nutritional Status of Indian
Children},
Journal = {Economics and Human Biology},
Volume = {6},
Number = {3},
Pages = {455-468},
Year = {2008},
url = {http://www.econ.duke.edu/~taroz/Tarozzi%202008%20Growth%20References%20India.pdf},
Key = {fds161758}
}
@article{fds161759,
Author = {Alessandro Tarozzi and Aprajit Mahajan},
Title = {Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties},
Journal = {Economic Development and Cultural Change},
Volume = {55},
Number = {3},
Pages = {441-486},
Year = {2007},
url = {http://www.econ.duke.edu/~taroz/TarozziMahajan06.pdf},
Keywords = {Child Nutrition, India, Child Anthropometry},
Abstract = {India experienced several years of fast economic growth
during the 1990s, and according to many observers this
period also saw a considerable decline in poverty,
especially in urban areas. We use data from two rounds of
the National Family and Health Survey to evaluate changes in
nutritional status between 1992-93 and 1998-99 among
children of age 0 to 3. We find that measures of short-term
nutritional status based on weight given height show large
improvements, especially in urban areas. Height-forage, an
indicator of long-term nutritional status, also shows
improvements, but limited to urban areas. However, we also
document that the changes in nutritional status were much
more favorable for boys than for girls. The gender
differences in the changes over time appear to be driven by
states in North India, where the existence of widespread son
preference has been documented by an immense body of
research.},
Key = {fds161759}
}
@article{fds161760,
Author = {Xiaohong Chen and Han Hong and Alessandro Tarozzi},
Title = {Semiparametric Efficiency in GMM Models with Auxiliary
Data},
Journal = {Annals of Statistics},
Volume = {36},
Number = {2},
Pages = {808-843},
Year = {2007},
url = {http://www.econ.duke.edu/~taroz/ChenHongTarozziannaledition.pdf},
Key = {fds161760}
}
@article{fds161761,
Author = {Alessandro Tarozzi},
Title = {Calculating Comparable Statistics from Incomparable Surveys,
with an Application to Poverty in India},
Journal = {Journal of Business and Economic Statistics},
Volume = {25},
Number = {3},
Pages = {314-336},
Year = {2007},
Keywords = {Poverty, Inequality, India, Method of Moments, Survey
Methods.},
Abstract = {Applied economists are often interested in studying trends
in important economic indicators, such as inequality or
poverty, but comparisons over time can be made impossible by
changes in data collection methodology. We describe an
easily implemented procedure, based on inverse probability
weighting, that allows to recover comparability of estimated
parameters identified implicitly by a moment condition. The
validity of the procedure requires the existence of a set of
auxiliary variables whose reports are not affected by the
different survey design, and whose relation with the main
variable of interest is stable over time. We analyze the
asymptotic properties of the estimator taking into account
the presence of clustering, stratification and sampling
weights which characterize most household surveys. The main
empirical motivation of the paper is provided by a recent
controversy on the extent of poverty reduction in India in
the 1990s. Due to important changes in the expenditure
questionnaire adopted for data collection in the 1999-2000
round of the Indian National Sample Survey, the resulting
poverty numbers are likely to understate poverty relative to
the previous rounds. We use previous waves of the same
survey to provide evidence supporting the plausibility of
the identifying assumptions and conclude that most, but not
all, of the very large reduction in poverty implied by the
official figures appears to be real, and not a statistical
artifact.},
Key = {fds161761}
}
@article{fds161763,
Author = {Alessandro Tarozzi},
Title = {The Indian Public Distribution System as Provider of Food
Security: Evidence from Child Anthropometry in Andhra
Pradesh},
Journal = {European Economic Review},
Volume = {49},
Number = {5},
Pages = {1305-1330},
Year = {2005},
Month = {July},
Abstract = {We study whether a sudden increase of the price of rice
supplied by the Indian Public Distribution System in Andhra
Pradesh, a large Indian state, had a negative impact on
child nutrition. A few months after the price increase, a
health survey started to record weight for a large sample of
children. The data collection continued for several months,
so that children measured later lived for a longer period of
time in a less favorable price regime. Using different
estimation techniques we find that longer exposure to high
prices are not accompanied by worse nutritional status, as
measured by weight-for-age.},
Key = {fds161763}
}
%% Papers Accepted
@article{fds184336,
Author = {Irene Brambilla and Guido Porto and Alessandro
Tarozzi},
Title = {Adjusting to Trade Policy: Evidence from U.S. Antidumping
Duties on Vietnamese Catfish},
Journal = {Review of Economics and Statistics},
Year = {2010},
Key = {fds184336}
}
%% Papers Submitted
@article{fds184340,
Author = {Lori Bennear and Alessandro Tarozzi and H B Soumya and Alex Pfaff and Ahmed Kazi Matin and Lex van Geen},
Title = {Bright Lines, Risk Beliefs, and Risk Avoidance: Evidence
from a Randomized Experiment in Bangladesh},
Journal = {American Economic Journal: Applied Economics},
Year = {2010},
Key = {fds184340}
}
%% Chapters in Books
@misc{fds30338,
Author = {Angus Deaton and Alessandro Tarozzi},
Title = {Prices and Poverty in India},
Booktitle = {Data and Dogma: The Great Indian Poverty
Debate},
Publisher = {Macmillan (New Delhi)},
Editor = {Angus Deaton and Valerie Kozel},
Year = {2004},
Key = {fds30338}
}
%% Working Papers
@article{fds184341,
Author = {Alessandro Tarozzi and Aprajit Mahajan and Brian Blackburn and Dan
Kopf, Lakshmi Krishnan and Joanne Yoong.},
Title = {Micro-loans, bednets and malaria: Evidence from a randomized
controlled trial in Orissa (India)},
Year = {2010},
Key = {fds184341}
}
@article{fds184342,
Author = {Aprajit Mahajan and Alessandro Tarozzi},
Title = {Time Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption:
The case of Insecticide Treated Nets},
Year = {2010},
Key = {fds184342}
}
@article{fds184343,
Author = {Aprajit Mahajan and Alessandro Tarozzi},
Title = {Bednets, Information and Malaria in Orissa},
Year = {2010},
Key = {fds184343}
}
%% Other
@misc{fds184339,
Author = {Patricia Foo and Alessandro Tarozzi and Aprajit Mahajan and Joanne
Yoong, Lakshmi Krishnan and Danel Kopf and Brian
Blackburn},
Title = {Lymphatic Filariasis in Orissa, India: Expanded Endemic
Range and A Call to Re-evaluate Targeting of Mass Drug
Administration Programs},
Journal = {Accepted for Publication at Transactions of the Royal
Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene},
Year = {2010},
Key = {fds184339}
}
@misc{fds152887,
Author = {Alessandro Tarozzi and Aprajit Mahajan and Joanne Yoong and Brian
Blackburn},
Title = {Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-protecting
Behavior: Preliminary Evidence from Orissa
(India)},
Journal = {American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings},
Volume = {99},
Number = {2},
Pages = {231-235},
Year = {2009},
Key = {fds152887}
}