Working Papers

1. Moreno, Héctor, Francois Bourguignon, and Hai-Anh Dang. (2021). “On Synthetic Income Panels”. IZA Discussion Paper # 14236; GLO Discussion Paper # 809.

2. Dang, Hai-Anh, John Pullinger, Umar Serajuddin, and Brian Stacy. (2021). “Statistical Performance Indicators and Index: A New Tool to Measure Country Statistical Capacity”. World Bank Policy Research Paper # 9570.

3. Dang, Hai-Anh and Cuong Viet Nguyen. (2020). “Did a Successful Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic Come at a Cost? Impacts of the Outbreak on Employment Outcomes in Vietnam”. IZA Discussion Paper # 13958.

4. Dang, Hai-Anh, Edmund Malesky, and Cuong Viet Nguyen. "Inequality and Support for Government Responses to COVID-19". IZA Discussion Paper # 13816.

5. Pacillo, Grazia, Cuong Nguyen Viet, Silvi Hafianti, Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh Dang, Harold Armando Achicanoy Estrella, and Peter Läderach. "Who bears the burden of climate variability? A comparative analysis of the impact of weather conditions on inequality in Vietnam and Indonesia." AFD Reseach Paper # 147.

6. Dang, Hai-Anh and Trong-Anh Trinh. "The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution: Evidence from Vietnam". IZA Discussion Paper # 13651; GLO Discussion Paper # 647. (GLO discussion paper of the month for October 2020)

7. Dang, Hai-Anh, Toan Huynh, and Manh-Hung Nguyen. "Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Disproportionately Affect the Poor? Evidence from a Six-Country Survey". IZA Discussion Paper # 13352.

8. Beltramo, Theresa, Hai-Anh Dang, Ibrahima Sarr and Paolo Verme. "Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad". World Bank Policy Research Paper # 9222; GLO Discussion Paper # 538; ECINEQ Working Paper # 536. (policy brief).

9. Dang, Hai-Anh, Paul Glewwe, Jongwook Lee and Khoa Vu. "What Explains Vietnam’s Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries? Analysis of the 2012 and 2015 PISA Data". RISE Working Paper # 20/036 (featured in Center for Global Development blog).

10. Dang, Hai-Anh, Kseniya Abanokova and Michael Lokshin. "Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017". GLO Discussion Paper # 492; IZA Discussion Paper # 13058; ECINEQ Working Paper # 527.

11. Dang, Hai-Anh and Paolo Verme. "Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations: Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?" World Bank Policy Research Paper # 9076; IZA Discussion Paper # 12822; GLO Discussion Paper # 429. ECINEQ Working Paper # 536. (updated version) (Data blog).

12. Dang, Hai-Anh, Masako Hiraga, and Cuong Viet Nguyen. "Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam". World Bank Policy Research Paper # 8886; GLO Discussion Paper # 349 (GLO discussion paper of the month for May 2019); IZA Discussion Paper # 12814 (updated version).

13. Dang, Hai-Anh and Peter Lanjouw. "Welfare Dynamics in India over a Quarter-century: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility during 1987-2012". UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2018/175; IZA Discussion Paper No. 13215; GLO Discussion Paper # 535; ECINEQ Working Paper # 540; World Bank Policy Research Paper # 9231 (updated version).

14. Balcazar, Carlos Felipe, Hai-Anh Dang, Eduardo Malasquez, Sergio Olivieri, and Julieth Pico. "Welfare Dynamics in Colombia: Results from Synthetic Panels". World Bank Policy Research Paper # 8441.

15. Tiecke, Tobias, Xianming Liu, Amy Zhang, Andreas Gros, Nan Li, Gregory Yetman, Talip Kilic, Siobhan Murray, Brian Blankespoor, Espen Prydz, and Hai-Anh Dang. "Mapping the world population one building at a time". arXiv:1712.05839

16. Dang, Hai-Anh, and Peter Lanjouw. “Measuring Poverty Dynamics and Vulnerability with Synthetic Panels Based on Cross-Sections”, World Bank Policy Research Paper # 6504.

- A blog on synthetic panels and their application is here (also World Economic Forum blog)

- A recent blog on our ongoing application to data from Africa is here.

17. Dang, Hai-Anh, Leopold Sarr and Niaz Asadullah. “Schooling Resources, Educational Access and Outcomes: Evidence from a Non-formal School Program in Bangladesh”. IZA Discussion Paper # 5659.