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| Publications of Alessandro Tarozzi :recent first alphabetical combined listing:%% Papers Published @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} } @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{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}, Key = {fds161758} } @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} } %% 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{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} } @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} } | |
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