Publications

Journal Articles

     Gunning, J.W., Krishnan, P. and A. T. Mengistu, 2024, "Fading Choice: Transport Costs and Variety in Consumer Goods". Forthcoming: Economica. 

Gebrewolde, T.M., Koelle, M., Krishnan, P. and A. T. Mengistu, 2022, "Currency Shocks and Firm Behaviour in Ethiopia and Uganda", Journal of African Economies, Volume 31 (1), Pages i59–i82 . https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejac018 

      Dhillon, A., Krishnan, P., Patnam, M. and C. Perroni, 2020, "Secession with Natural Resources", The Economic Journal, Volume 130, Issue 631, October 2020, Pages 2207–2248, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa033  

Krishnan, P. and P. Zhang, 2020, "Restricting trade and reducing variety: Evidence from Ethiopia". World Development, 126, 1-11..

Helmers, C., P. Krishnan and M.Patnam, 2019, "Attention and saliency on the internet: Evidence from an online recommendation system", Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, Volume 161, May 2019, Pages 216-242.

 covered at : Voxeu: http://www.voxeu.org/article/attention-and-saliency-internet, January 2016.

Krishnan, P. and M. Patnam, 2014, "Neighbours And Extension Agents: Who Matters More For Technology Adoption", American Journal of Agricultural Economics 96 (1):308-327. 

This paper was showcased as one of ten recent articles that have pushed the frontiers of empirical development economics in Virtual Issue 2016: http://oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/ajae/virtualissue_development_economics.html. 

Das, J., Dercon, S., Habyarimana, J, Krishnan P., Muralidharan K. and V.Sundararaman, 2013, “School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol. 5(2), 29-57.

Krishnan, P. and S. Krutikova, 2013 "Non-cognitive skill formation in poor neighbourhoods of urban India", Labour Economics. Vol. 24, 68–85.

Dercon, S., P. Krishnan and S.Krutikova, 2013, “Changes in Living Standards in Villages in India 1975-2004: Revisiting the ICRISAT Village-Level Studies”, Journal of Development Studies, 49(12), 1676-1693.

Krishnan, P., 2011, “La croissance du PIB rendra-t-elle des habitants des pays en développement plus heureux?”, Revue d’économie du développement, 19 (2-3), 191-198.

Krishnan, P. and E.Sciubba, 2009,  “Links and Architecture in Village Networks”, The Economic Journal, 119(537), 917–949.         

Dercon, S. and P. Krishnan, 2009, "Poverty and the Psychosocial Competencies of Children: Evidence from the Young Lives Sample in Four Developing Countries", Children, Youth and Environments, 19(2), 138-163.

Das, J., S.Dercon, J.Habyarimana and P. Krishnan, 2007, "Teacher Shocks and Student Learning: evidence from Zambia", Journal of Human Resources, Fall, 42(4), 820-62.

Horrell, S. and P. Krishnan, 2007, “Poverty and Productivity in Female-Headed Households in Zimbabwe”, Journal of Development Studies, 43: 1353–82.

Fosu, A. K., Krishnan P., and L. Ndikumana, 2004,"Africa and the World Economy: A Focus on Capital -- An Overview," Journal of African Economies, 13(02),  ii1-ii14.

Dercon, S. and Krishnan, P., 2003, “Risk Sharing and Public Transfers”, Economic Journal, 113 (486), C86-C94

Dercon, S. and P. Krishnan, 2000, “In Sickness and in Health: Risk Sharing within Households in Rural Ethiopia”, Journal of Political Economy, 108(4), 688-727.

Dercon, S. and P. Krishnan, 2000, “Vulnerability, seasonality and poverty in Ethiopia”, Journal of Development Studies, 36(6), 25-53.

Appleton, S., J.Hoddinott, and P. Krishnan, 1999, "Decomposition of wage differentials by sex: A new technique and applications to three African countries", Economic Development and Cultural Change, 47(2), January, 289-312.

Krishnan, P, 1996, "Family background, education and employment in urban Ethiopia", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 58(1), 167-83.

Dercon, S. and P. Krishnan, 1996, "Income portfolios in rural Ethiopia and Tanzania: choices and constraints", Journal of Development Studies, 32(6), 850-75.

Krishnan, P., 1992, "Random Parameter and Self-Selection  Models", Empirical Economics, Spring, 18(2),  197-213.

Krishnan, P., 1990, "The Economics of Moonlighting: A Double Self-Selection Model", Review of Economics and Statistics, 72(2), 361-67.

Chapters in Books

Dercon, S., J. Hoddinott, P. Krishnan and T. Woldehanna, 2012, “Burial Societies in Rural Ethiopia”, in: E.Mwangi, H.Markelova and R.Meinzen-Dick”, Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Dercon, S. and P. Krishnan, 2010, “Land Rights Revisited”, Institutional Microeconomics of Development, in: T. Besley and R. Jayaraman (eds.), MIT Press

Dercon, S., J. Hoddinott and P. Krishnan, 2005, “Networks”, in: J.Kirsten (ed.), Economics of Institutions: Theory and Applications for African Agriculture.

Dercon, S. and P. Krishnan and T.G. Selassie 2004, “The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997” in: A.Bigsten (ed.), Poverty in Ethiopia, Scandinavian Institute of African Studies.

Dercon, S. and P. Krishnan, 2004, "Food Aid and Informal Insurance" in: S.Dercon (ed.) (2004), Insurance against Poverty, Oxford University Press. 

Ayalew, D., S.Dercon and P. Krishnan, 2004, "Demobilisation, Land and Household Livelihoods", in: T.Addison, (ed.), From Conflict to Recovery, Oxford University Press.

Dercon, S. and P. Krishnan, 2003, "Changes in Poverty in Villages in Rural Ethiopia: 1989-95", in:  A.Booth and P.Mosley, (eds.), The New Poverty Strategies , Palgrave MacMillan, London.

Appleton, S., J. Hoddinott, P. Krishnan and K. Max, 1998, "Can the labour market explain lower female schooling? Evidence from three African countries" in: G.Naveretti, R.Faini and G.Zanalda (eds.), Labour Markets, Poverty, and Development, Oxford University Press.

Selected research papers 

            Krishnan, P. and I. Shaorshadze, 2013, “Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Ethiopia”, International Growth Centre Working Paper, February.

Dercon, S., J.Hoddinott, P. Krishnan and T.Woldehanna, 2008, “Collective Action and Vulnerabiilty: Burial Societies in Rural Ethiopia”, CAPRi Working Papper no. 83.

Das, J., S. Dercon, J. Habyarimana and P. Krishnan, 2004, "Public and Private Funding of Basic Education in Zambia Implications of Budgetary Allocations for Service Delivery", Africa Region Human Development Working Paper no. 62.

Dercon, S. and P. Krishnan, 1996, “A Consumption-Based Measure of Poverty for Rural Ethiopia in 1989 and 1994”, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford.