PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH PAPERS
Refereed Journal Articles
"Which Night Lights Data Should We Use in Economics, and Where?" Journal of Development Economics (Forthcoming). With John Gibson, Geua Boe-Gibson and Chao Li.
"Direct and Indirect Effects of Covid-19 on Life Expectancy and Poverty in Indonesia" Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 56(3): 325-344 (2020). With John Gibson.
"Night Lights in Economics: Sources and Uses" Journal of Economic Surveys 34(5): 955-980 (2020). With John Gibson and Geua Boe-Gibson.
"Indonesia in the time of Covid-19: A Survey of Recent Developments" Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 56(2): 143-174 (2020). With Rus'an Nasrudin and John Gibson.
"Scaling up sanitation: Evidence from an RCT in Indonesia" Journal of Development Economics 138 (May): 1-16 (2019). With Lisa Cameron and Manisha Shah.
“Urban land expansion in Indonesia 1992 - 2012: Implications for food security and environmental change" Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 62(3): 438-456 (2018). With John Gibson, Geua Boe-Gibson, Glen Stichbury and Lars Brabyn.
“Cluster-corrected standard errors with exact locations known: An example from rural Indonesia" Economics Bulletin 34(3): 1857-1863 (2014). With John Gibson and Bonggeun Kim.
“Using Engel curves to measure CPI bias for Indonesia” Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 49(1): 85-101 (2013). With John Gibson.
“Survey of recent developments” Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 48(2): 143-171 (2012). With Chika Yamauchi.
“Spatial autocorrelation in household choices in rural Indonesia” Asian Economic Journal 25(3): 271 – 289 (2011). With John Gibson and Bonggeun Kim.
“How widespread are non-linear crowding out effects? The response of private transfers to income in four developing countries” Applied Economics 43(27): 4053 - 4068 (2011). With John Gibson and Scott Rozelle.
“Mapping poverty in rural China: How much does the environment matter?” Environment and Development Economics 16(2): 129 – 153 (2011). With John Gibson, Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang and Xiangzheng Deng.
“The effect of infrastructure access and quality on non-farm employment and income in rural Indonesia”. World Development 38(5): 717 – 726 (2010). With John Gibson.
“Household energy demand and the equity and efficiency aspects of subsidy reform in Indonesia” Energy Journal 29(1): 21 - 39 (2008). With John Gibson.
“Is there still a moral economy in Java, Indonesia?” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 9(2): 169 – 183 (2007).
“Unit value biases in price elasticities of demand for meat in Indonesia” Australian Agribusiness Review 13(12): 1 - 17 (2005). With John Gibson.
“Attacking poverty in Papua New Guinea, but for how long?” Pacific Economic Bulletin 17(2): 63-71 (2002). With John Gibson.
Working Papers
"Does the Impact of Cash Transfers Differ across Poverty Measures? Evidence from Pakistan" Working Papers in Economics 21/09, University of Waikato, September 2021. With Zaira Najam.
"Which Night Lights Data Should We Use in Economics and Where?" MPRA Paper 97582, University Library of Munich, Germany. With John Gibson and Geua Boe-Gibson.
"Night Lights in Economics: Sources and Uses" CSAE Working Paper Series 2020-01, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford. With John Gibson and Geua Boe-Gibson.
"A Test of DMSP and VIIRS Night Lights Data for Estimating GDP and Spatial Inequality for Rural and Urban Areas" Working Papers in Economics 19/11, University of Waikato, September 2019. With John Gibson and Geua Boe-Gibson.
"Initial conditions matter: Social capital and participatory development" IZA Discussion Papers No. 9563, December 2015. With Lisa Cameron and Manisha Shah.
Chapter in Book
“Sanitation and Health: The Past, the Future and Working Out What Work” in C. Manning and S. Sumarto (eds) Employment,Living Standards, and Poverty in Contemporary Indonesia Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (2011). pp. 245 – 279. With Lisa Cameron.
Other publications/ Reports
“Impact evaluation of a large-scale rural sanitation project in Indonesia” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6360, February 2013. With Lisa Cameron and Manisha Shah.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
“Effects of taxes on cigarette demand when quantity and quality are modelled: Evidence from Indonesia". With Ethan Burton-McKenzie and John Gibson.
"Crowd-sourced price surveys using smart phones". With John Gibson, Peggy Alivianur and Firman Witoelar.
"The socio-economic impacts of floods on Jakarta". With Budy Resosudarmo, Alin Halimatussadiah and Mia Amalia.
"Accounting for and removing spatial autocorrelation: An application to small area estimation of poverty and inequality". With Aaron Smith, John Gibson, Scott Rozelle and Xiangzheng Deng.
“Will your neighbors make you sick? Evidence from early childhood health in rural Indonesia"
“Decomposing intergenerational income elasticity: Evidence from Indonesia”. With Mabel Andalon.