Peer Reviewed Publications
Lo Bue, M.C. and Bargain, O. (2025). The economic gains of closing the employment gender gap: evidence from Morocco. Forthcoming in Feminist Economics.
Klasen, S., Kneib, T., Lo Bue, M.C., and Prete, V. (2024). What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics. Journal of Economic Inequality, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-024-09628-7 .
Lo Bue, M.C., and Martínez-Zarzoso, I. (2024). Female managers and firm performance: Evidence from the non-agricultural sectors in caribbean countries. Economic Modelling, Vol. 133, 106648, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2024.106648.
Deshpande, A., Lo Bue, M.C., Pieters, J., and Sen, K. (2024). Women’s Work – Routes to Social and Economic Empowerment: Introduction to the Special Issue. World Development, Vol. 177 May 2024, 106528, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106528.
Lo Bue, M.C. (2024) Drivers of changes in child nutritional conditions: A panel data-based study on Indonesian households, 1997-2014. Review of Development Economics, 28 (2): 741-776. http://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13082.
Lo Bue, M.C., Ngoc Le, T., Santos Silva, M. and Sen, K. (2022) Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world: Evidence from global microdata. World Development, Vol. 159 November 2022, 106010.
-media coverage: OECD Development Matters blog
Lindberg, S., Lo Bue, M.C., and Sen, K. (2022) Clientelism, corruption and the rule of law. World Development, Vol. 158 October 2022, 105989.
-media coverage: UNU-WIDER blog
Lo Bue, M.C. and Palmisano, F. (2020) The individual poverty incidence of growth. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 82 (6): 1295-1321.
Idzalika, R. and Lo Bue, M.C. (2020) Educational Opportunities in Indonesia: are factors outside individual responsibility persistent? Journal of Development Studies, 56 (8), 1473-1488.
Lo Bue, M.C. (2019). Early Childhood during the Indonesia's Wildfires: Health Outcomes and Long Run Schooling Achievements. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 67: 4, 969-1003.
-media coverage: The Conversation UK; The Conversation (Bahasa); World Economic Forum
Lo Bue, M.C. and Priebe, J. (2018) Revisiting the socioeconomic determinants of exclusive breastfeeding practices: Evidence from Eastern Indonesia. Oxford Development Studies, 46:3, 398-410.
Lo Bue, M.C., and Klasen, S. (2013) Identifying synergies and complementarities between MDGs: Results from cluster analysis. Social Indicators Research, 113: 2, 647-670.
Works in Progress: Working Papers
Lo Bue, M.C., Perova, E. and Reynolds, S. (2023) Maternal Work and Children’s Development : Examining 20 Years of Evidence. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper ; no. WPS 10305 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group.
Aghajanian, A. R. Caeiro, C., Egger, E., Justino, P. and Lo Bue, M.C. (2023) ‘Ask not what your country can do for you’. Legacies of the Great Recession and the consequences of the ‘trust crisis’. WIDER Working Paper 2023/111. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER..
Bargain, O., Lo Bue, M.C. and Palmisano, F. (2021) Dynastic measures of inter-generational mobility with empirical evidence from Indonesia. WIDER Working Paper 2021/70. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
Dervisevic, E., Lo Bue, M.C. and Perova, E. (2021) Maternal Employment and Children’s Outcomes. Evidence from Indonesia. WIDER Working Paper 2021/186. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
Klasen, S., Lo Bue, M.C. and V. Prete (2020) What’s behind pro-poor growth? The role of shocks and measurement error. WIDER Working Paper 2020/16. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
Vu, K., and Lo Bue, M.C. (2019) Intergenerational mobility of Education in Vietnam. Evidence from the Vietnam War. WIDER Working Paper 2019/67. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
Policy Briefs and Research Reports
Deshpande A, Pieters J, Sen K, Lo Bue MC. (2024). How to create decent work for women: Policy lessons for low- and middle-income countries. WIDER Policy Brief 2024/1. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
Bargain, O. and Lo Bue, M.C. (2021) The Economic Gains Of Reducing The Employment Gender Gap In Morocco, WIDER Policy Brief 21/01 Helsinki: UNU-WIDER, 2021.
Bargain, O. and Lo Bue, M.C. (2021) Coûts Économiques des Inégalités de genre dans le Marché du Travail au Maroc. Commissioned by ONU Femmes Maroc and Centre d’Excellence pour la Budgétisation Sensible au Genre (CE-BSG). Rabat: Direction des Études et des Prévisions Financières (DEPF) and ONUFemmes Maroc.
Lo Bue, M.C. and Sen., K. (2020) The quantity and quality of women’s work. UNU-WIDER Factsheet 2020/1. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
Hoy, C., Klasen, S., Samman, E., Darmawan, E., Lo Bue, M.C., Rischke, R. and Rodríguez-Takeuchi, L. (2016). Middle-income transitions and inequality: is there a link? ODI Dimension Paper 05/2016. Overseas Development Institute: London.
Priebe, J., Howell, F., and Lo Bue, M. C. (2014) Availability and Quality of Public Health Facilities in Eastern Indonesia: Results from the Indonesia Family Life Survey East 2012. TNP2K Working Paper 11c, 2014.
Lo Bue, M.C. (2013) Are there synergies between MDGs? KfW Policy Brief. (German Version: here)
Klasen, S., Lange, S., and Lo Bue, M.C.(2012) New Developments in National and International Poverty Measurement: Promise, Limits, and Applicability for different Development Actors. Frankfurt: KfW.