Publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Manning, L.; Dalton, A.; Afif, Z.; Vakis, R.; Naru, F. 2020. Behavioral Science Around the World: Volume Two - Profiles of 17 International Organizations. eMBeD brief. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. Link

2. Johnson, H.; Hernandez, D; Trzesniewski, K.; Indrakesuma, T.; Vakis, R.; Perova, E.; Muller, N.; De Martino, S.; and Molina, D. 2020. Can Teaching Growth Mindset and Self-Management at School Shift Student Outcomes and Teacher Mindsets? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Indonesia. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. Link

3. Outes-Leon, Ingo; Sanchez,Alan; and Vakis,Renos. 2020. The Power of Believing You Can Get Smarter : The Impact of a Growth-Mindset Intervention on Academic Achievement in Peru (English). Policy Research Working Paper No. WPS 9141 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. Link

4. Macours, K.; Premand, P. and Vakis, R. 2020. Long-term Evaluation of Atencion a Crisis Interventions. Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. Link

5. Strupat, C.; Farfan, M.; Moritz, L.; Negre, M.; Vakis, R. 2019. Obesity and Food away from Home : What Drives the Socioeconomic Gradient in Excess Body Weight ? (English). Policy Research working paper No. WPS 9066. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. Link

6. Afif, Z.; Dalton, A.; Valcarcel B.; Francarlo, R.; Batada, A.; Walsh, J.; Leon, R.; Vakis, R. 2019. Behavioral Strategies to Support Social Stability in Lebanon. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. Link

7. Farfan, G.; Mcgee, K.; Perng, J.; Vakis, R. 2019. Poverty Measurement in the Era of Food Away from Home : Testing Alternative Approaches in Vietnam. Poverty and Equity Global Practice Working Paper Series; No. 187. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. Link

8. R. Laajaj, K. Macours, D. A. Pinzon Hernandez, O. Arias, S. D. Gosling, J. Potter, M. Rubio-Codina, R. Vakis, Challenges to capture the big five personality traits in non-WEIRD populations. Sci. Adv. 5, eaaw5226 (2019). Link

9. Jamison, J.; Mcgee, K.; Siwatu, G.; Perng, J.; Sato, R.; Tanaka, T.; Vakis, R. 2018. The Relationship between Conflicts, Economic Shocks, and Death with Depression, Economic activities, and Human Capital Investment in Nigeria (English). Poverty and Equity Global Practice Working Paper Series;no. 186 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. Link

10. Gabriela Farfán, María Eugenia Genoni, Renos Vakis, 2017. You are what (and where) you eat: Capturing food away from home in welfare measures, Food Policy, Volume 72, 2017, Pages 146-156.

11. Bryan, C. J., Mazar, N., Jamison, J., Braithwaite, J., Dechausay, N., Fishbane, A., Fox, E., Gauri, V., Glennerster, R., Haushofer, J., Karlan, D. and Vakis, R. (2017). Overcoming behavioral obstacles to escaping poverty. Behavioral Science and Policy, 3(1), 81-91.

12. de Hoop, J., Premand, P., Rosati, F. and Renos Vakis (2017). Journal of Population Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0656-x

13. Schady Norbert, Jere Behrman, Maria Caridad Araujo, Rodrigo Azuero, Raquel Bernal, David Bravo, Florencia Lopez-Boo, Karen Macours, Daniela Marshall and Christina Paxson, 2015. “Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries,” Journal of Human Resources, 50(2), 446-463.

14. Cruces, Guillermo, Peter Lanjouw, Leonardo Lucchetti, Elizaveta Perova, Renos Vakis and Mariana Viollaz, 2015. "Intra-generational mobility and repeated cross-sections: a three-country validation exercise," Journal of Economic Inequality, 13(2), 161-179.

15. Macours Karen and Renos Vakis, 2014. “Changing Households’ Investments and Aspirations through Social Interactions: Evidence from a Randomized Transfer Program”, 2014. The Economic Journal, 124: 607–633.

16. Macours, Karen, Norbert Schady and Renos Vakis, 2012. "Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 4(2), pages 247-73, April.

17. Beuermann, Diether W., Christopher McKelvey and Renos Vakis, 2012. "Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Rural Peru," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(11), pages 1617-1628, November.

18. Macours, Karen and Renos Vakis, 2010. "Seasonal Migration and Early Childhood Development," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 38(6), pages 857-869, June.

19. Deichmann, Uwe, Forhad Shilpi and Renos Vakis, 2009. "Urban Proximity, Agricultural Potential and Rural Non-farm Employment: Evidence from Bangladesh," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 37(3), pages 645-660, March.

20. de Janvry, Alain & Finan, Frederico & Sadoulet, Elisabeth & Vakis, Renos, 2006. "Can conditional cash transfer programs serve as safety nets in keeping children at school and from working when exposed to shocks?" Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 79(2), pages 349-373, April.

BOOKS

1. Macours, K. and Vakis, R. (2019). “Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End: Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investments in Children,” in C. Barrett, M.R. Carter and J.-P. Chavas (eds) The Economics of Poverty Traps (University of Chicago Press & NBER).

2. Vakis, Renos; Rigolini, Jamele; Lucchetti, Leonardo. 2016. Left Behind : Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. World Bank.

3. World Bank. 2015. A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals. Policy Research Report. Washington, DC: World Bank.

4. Ferreira, Francisco H.G., Julian Messina, Jamele Rigolini, Luis-Felipe López-Calva, Maria Ana Lugo and Renos Vakis, 2013. "Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class," World Bank Publications, The World Bank, number 11858, November.