Research
Research
Market Access and Social Change: Evidence from Road Construction in Rural India.
Synthetic panel methods for measuring poverty dynamics without panel data. An appraisal and an alternative. Submitted to The Journal of Economic Inequality.
Assessing the impact of personal income tax reform in Kenya with administrative data: Behavioral responses and distributional implications. With Jane Kanina, Josephine Mugure, Peter Fisker and Jacob Nato.
The dynamics of spatial and local inequalities in India. With Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay. Early version: WIDER Working Paper 182/2018.
Symbolic discrimination and material deprivation of historically disadvantaged groups in India.
Locating extreme poverty in Urban East Africa using advanced statistical methods. With Peter Fisker and Finn Tarp.
Missing capital income and inequality measurement. With François Bourguignon and Peter Lanjouw.
Poverty dynamics and vulnerability during a growth episode. Evidence from Bangladesh: 2000 - 2016. 2024. The Journal of Development Studies, 61(5), pp. 797–818.
Understanding Poverty Dynamics and Vulnerability in Tanzania: 2012-2018. Joint with Jehovaness Aikaeli and Kenneth Mdadila. 2021. Review of Development Economics, Vol.25 (4) - Special Issue: Poverty and Covid-19, pp. 1869-1894.
Constructing Synthetic Panels for the Purpose of Studying Poverty Dynamics: A Primer. Joint with Peter Lanjouw and Gerton Rongen, 2021. Review of Development Economics Vol.25 (4) - Special Issue: Poverty and Covid-19, pp. 1803-1815.
Mapping Poverty in Lesotho in 2017/2018. Methodology and Key Findings. World Bank and Lesotho Bureau of Statistics, August 2021.
Urban Poverty Mapping in Mozambique: Is census or geo-spatial data better? Joint with Peter Fisker and Thomas Pave Sohnesen.