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A Millennium Learning Goal: Measuring Real Progress in Education 0 0 2 218 0 1 4 666
A Quick and Dirty Estimate of Measurement Error in Household Survey Consumption Expenditures: Application to Indonesian Data 0 0 0 7 1 1 1 65
Alleviating Global Poverty: Labor Mobility, Direct Assistance, and Economic Growth 0 0 1 77 1 1 8 182
Alleviating Global Poverty: Labor Mobility, Direct Assistance, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 76 2 3 3 82
Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean 0 0 1 261 1 3 10 733
Autonomous Reform vs Global Isomorphism: Explaining Iran’s Success in Reducing Fertility 0 0 0 37 2 2 4 151
Birth Satisfaction Units (BSU): Measuring Cross-National Differences in Human Well-Being 0 0 0 43 1 1 5 145
Boom Towns and Ghost Countries: Geography, Agglomeration, and Population Mobility 0 0 2 127 0 4 6 757
Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 7
Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers 0 0 0 23 3 5 7 59
Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers 0 0 0 48 1 2 3 110
Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers - Working Paper 428 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 27
Capability Traps? The Mechanisms of Persistent Implementation Failure - Working Paper 234 0 0 3 120 3 4 14 305
Cents and sociability: household income and social capital in rural Tanzania 1 1 2 989 2 4 18 2,948
Child mortality and public spending on health: how much does money matter? 0 0 3 636 3 11 39 2,651
Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice Don't Mix-Working Paper 336 0 0 4 123 2 7 22 450
Deals Versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It 0 0 0 6 2 3 5 144
Deals Versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It 0 0 0 5 2 5 5 74
Deals versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It 0 0 0 17 1 1 2 193
Deals versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It 0 0 0 58 0 3 3 254
Deals versus rules: policy implementation uncertainty and why firms hate it 0 0 0 58 0 0 1 242
Democracy Versus Dictatorship? The Political Determinants of Growth Episodes 0 0 1 106 5 11 22 237
Democracy versus dictatorship? The political determinants of growth episodes 1 1 1 12 1 2 3 161
Desired fertility and the impact of population policies 0 0 2 678 1 5 19 2,882
Developing the guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): elite commitment and inclusive growth 0 0 2 47 2 7 15 215
Divergence, big time 1 1 2 1,174 6 9 16 3,866
Does more for the poor mean less for the poor? The politics of tagging 0 0 0 210 0 0 2 851
Does participation improve project performance: establishing causality with subjective data 0 0 0 137 0 0 2 393
Doing Iterative and Adaptive Work 0 0 1 66 2 3 9 180
Doing Problem Driven Work 0 0 0 10 1 1 3 76
Doing Problem Driven Work 0 0 2 17 3 5 10 129
Doing business in a deals world - The doubly false premise of rules reform 0 0 0 10 2 4 4 40
Doing business in a deals world: The doubly false premise of rules reform 0 0 2 16 2 6 8 54
Environmental degradation and the demand for children: searching for the vicious circle 0 0 1 66 0 0 2 667
Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) 0 0 0 80 0 1 2 251
Escaping Capability Traps through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) 0 1 5 91 5 6 20 455
Escaping Capability Traps through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) 0 0 0 8 0 2 6 110
Escaping Capability Traps through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) 1 1 2 15 7 9 14 132
Escaping Capability Traps through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) 1 1 1 51 2 5 11 227
Estimating Income/Expenditure Differences across Populations: New Fun with Old Engel's Law-Working Paper 339 0 0 2 37 8 8 14 184
Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data - or tears: with an application to educational enrollments in states of India 0 1 7 615 5 8 24 1,416
European trade patterns after the transition 0 1 2 161 4 5 14 661
Explaining the Cross-National Time Series Variation in Life Expectancy: Income, Women’s Education, Shifts, and What Else? 0 0 1 100 2 4 6 268
From Schooling Goals to Learning Goals: How Fast Can Student Learning Improve? 0 2 4 8 1 3 16 48
Gender disparity in South Asia: comparisons between and within countries 0 0 1 749 5 6 11 2,815
Girls’ Schooling and Women’s Literacy: Schooling Targets Alone Won’t Reach Learning Goals 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 0 2 1,610 1 1 10 4,029
Governance and returns on investment: an empirical investigation 0 0 1 307 0 1 6 1,020
Growth Accelerations 0 1 1 230 5 7 10 650
Growth Accelerations 0 0 2 355 0 2 6 920
Growth Accelerations 0 0 0 958 3 5 10 2,434
Health policy in poor countries: weak links in the chain 0 0 0 271 1 1 4 1,202
How Business is Done and the 'Doing Business' Indicators: The Investment Climate when Firms have Climate Control 0 0 0 8 2 2 2 71
How business is done and the'doing business'indicators: the investment climate when firms have climate control 0 0 3 169 3 6 17 572
Import demand in developing countries 0 0 1 169 2 2 7 448
In brief: Producing superstars for the economic World Cup 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 112
Income per natural: Measuring development as if people mattered more than places 0 1 2 64 1 3 17 354
Intra - Sub - Saharan African trade: is it too little? 0 0 2 382 0 1 5 842
Is India a Flailing State? Detours on the Four Lane Highway to Modernization 2 6 7 109 6 12 16 236
Is India a Flailing State?: Detours on the Four Lane Highway to Modernization 1 8 10 72 5 17 31 423
Is There a Goldilocks Solution? “Just Right” Promotion of Labor Mobility 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
It's All About MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning ('e') to Crawl the Design Space 0 0 0 9 2 2 6 302
It's All about MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning ("e") to Crawl the Design Space 0 0 0 48 2 3 5 231
It's All about MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning ('e') to Crawl the Design Space 0 0 0 51 2 3 7 215
It‘s All About MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning (“e”) to Crawl the Design Space 0 0 1 8 2 3 9 67
It’s All About MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning (‘e’) to Crawl the Design Space 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 64
Learning Equity Requires More than Equality: Learning Goals and Achievement Gaps between the Rich and the Poor in Five Developing Countries 0 0 2 49 2 3 10 158
Let’s Take the Con Out of Randomized Control Trials in Development: The Puzzles and Paradoxes of External Validity, Empirically Illustrated 0 0 5 55 3 4 9 88
Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation 0 2 3 29 1 11 19 160
Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation 0 0 1 200 1 1 6 442
Looking for a Break: Identifying transitions in growth regimes 0 0 0 7 2 4 5 21
Managing Your Authorizing Environment in a PDIA Process 0 1 2 50 4 6 11 263
Measurements of poverty in Indonesia - 1996, 1999, and beyond 0 0 0 346 2 3 3 1,803
Measuring outward orientation in developing countries: can it be done? 0 0 0 311 0 1 1 966
Measuring real exchange rate instability in developing countries: empirical evidence and implications 0 0 0 146 0 0 1 450
Mind your P's and Q's: the cost of public investment is not the value of public capital 0 1 1 298 0 3 8 1,835
More for the poor is less for the poor: the politics of targeting 0 2 3 408 0 4 10 949
National Development Delivers: And How! And How? 2 2 5 34 10 10 23 103
Nearshoring in Hermosillo: Analysis of Economic Growth Opportunities 0 0 9 9 8 15 35 35
Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries 0 0 0 2 2 4 7 67
Patterns of economic growth: hills, plateaus, mountains, and plains 0 0 0 412 2 3 6 2,912
Population growth, factor accumulation, and productivity 0 1 2 507 2 4 8 2,313
Promoting Millennium Development Ideals: The Risks of Defining Development Down 0 0 0 27 0 0 1 119
Promoting Millennium Development Ideals: The Risks of Defining Development Down 0 0 2 134 0 1 15 234
Promoting Millennium Development Ideals: The Risks of Defining Development Down 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Promoting Millennium Development Ideals: The Risks of Defining Development Down-Working Paper 338 0 0 0 37 3 5 6 116
Quantifying vulnerability to poverty - a proposed measure, applied to Indonesia 1 1 5 800 5 9 31 2,539
Raising the Bar: A Poverty Line for Global Inclusion 1 1 11 11 1 2 14 14
Rely (only) on the rigorous evidence” is bad advice 0 1 2 3 0 1 5 10
Safety nets and safety ropes - who benefited from two Indonesian crisis programs - the"poor"or the"shocked"? 0 0 1 151 1 2 5 759
Scaling PDIA through Broad Agency, and Your Role 0 0 0 29 0 1 3 180
Searching for the Devil in the Details: Learning about Development Program Design 0 0 0 6 4 4 4 119
Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast: Matching Curricula to Student Skill Levels 0 0 2 46 2 3 8 166
Social Impacts of the Indonesian Crisis: New Data and Policy Implications 1 1 1 18 2 3 5 144
Solutions when the Solution is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development 0 0 1 30 1 3 8 102
South Sudan's Capability Trap: Building a State with Disruptive Innovation 0 0 0 41 3 4 9 167
South Sudan's Capability Trap: Building a State with Disruptive Innovation 0 0 0 22 0 1 2 85
South Sudan’s Capability Trap: Building a State with Disruptive Innovation 0 0 0 5 2 3 7 61
Targeted Programs in an Economic Crisis: Empirical Findings from Indonesia’s Experience 0 0 0 7 3 4 4 44
Targeted Programs in an Economic Crisis: Empirical Findings from Indonesia’s Experience 0 0 1 13 1 3 5 56
Tariff rates, tariff revenue, and tariff reform: some new facts 0 1 3 316 3 4 12 2,485
Taxes: Price of Civilization or Tribute to Leviathan? - Working Paper 412 0 0 1 41 0 0 3 92
The Big Stuck in State Capability for Policy Implementation 0 0 2 75 1 4 14 199
The Challenge of Building (Real) State Capability 0 0 0 26 2 3 6 121
The Challenge of Building (Real) State Capability 0 0 0 20 3 3 3 53
The Illusion of Equality: The Educational Consequences of Blinding Weak States, For Example 0 0 0 71 0 1 2 371
The Limits of Accounting-Based Accountability in Education (and Far Beyond): Why More Accounting Will Rarely Solve Accountability Problems 2 19 20 31 3 20 24 82
The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries 0 0 0 10 2 4 7 87
The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries 0 0 1 65 3 3 5 360
The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries 0 0 0 30 3 6 9 167
The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries 0 0 1 9 0 2 5 94
The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries - Working Paper 293 1 1 2 28 2 9 24 169
The New Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment 0 0 0 48 1 5 6 107
The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment 0 1 1 37 1 3 6 83
The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment 0 0 0 0 6 8 9 10
The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment 0 1 1 91 1 3 5 178
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the US Border 0 0 0 28 3 4 8 224
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the U.S. Border 0 0 1 202 0 9 25 1,025
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the US Border 0 0 1 110 0 0 9 558
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the US Border 0 0 0 69 1 2 12 255
The Risks to Education Systems from Design Mismatch and Global Isomorphism 0 0 0 62 0 1 4 97
The Risks to Education Systems from Design Mismatch and Global Isomorphism 0 1 2 18 1 3 11 68
The Risks to Education Systems from Design Mismatch and Global Isomorphism: Concepts, with Examples from India 0 0 0 72 0 1 5 182
The State, Socialization, and Private Schooling: When Will Governments Support Alternate Producers? 0 0 0 35 1 1 1 75
The State, Socialization, and Private Schooling: When Will Governments Support Alternative Producers? 0 0 0 2 3 4 4 50
The State, Socialization, and Private Schooling: When Will Governments Support Alternative Producers? 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
The Varieties of Resource Experience: How Natural Resource Export Structures Affect the Political Economy of Economic Growth 0 0 0 463 3 3 10 1,145
The Varieties of Resource Experience: How Natural Resource Export Structures Affect the Political Economy of Economic Growth 0 0 1 1,201 3 4 9 2,784
The effect of household wealth on educational attainment: demographic and health survey evidence 0 1 2 387 1 4 13 1,990
The evolution of poverty during the crisis in Indonesia, 1996-99 0 0 0 220 0 0 1 808
The place premium: wage differences for identical workers across the US border 0 0 1 58 5 5 6 243
The political economy of targeted safety nets 0 0 4 127 2 3 15 320
The tyranny of concepts - CUDIE (Cumulated, Depreciated Investment Effort) is NOT capital 1 2 2 311 3 4 6 1,168
Towards a New Consensus for Addressing the Global Challenge of the Lack of Education 0 0 1 196 2 4 12 694
Trillions Gained and Lost: Estimating the Magnitude of Growth Episodes 0 0 0 21 0 1 1 147
Trillions Gained and Lost: Estimating the Magnitude of Growth Episodes 0 0 0 6 0 3 7 78
Trillions gained and lost. Estimating the magnitude of growth episodes 0 0 1 49 2 2 6 205
Value Subtraction in Public Sector Production: Accounting Versus Economic Cost of Primary Schooling in India - Working Paper 391 0 1 1 17 0 2 2 47
Value Subtraction in Public Sector Production: Accounting versus Economic Cost of Primary Schooling in India 0 0 1 16 2 3 5 59
Value Subtraction in Public Sector Production: Accounting vs Economic Cost of Primary Schooling in India 0 0 0 26 1 1 1 55
Voice Lessons:Local Government Organizations, Social Organizations, and the Quality of Local Governance 0 0 0 11 0 2 21 102
Voice lessons: local government organizations, social organizations, and the quality of local governance 0 0 0 224 1 3 4 862
Wealthier is healthier 1 4 11 1,773 7 15 47 5,267
What educational production functions really show: a positive theory of education spending 0 0 1 492 2 2 5 1,718
Where has all the education gone? 0 3 16 2,087 3 12 62 4,847
Where in the world is population growth bad? 0 0 0 243 1 4 6 2,548
Who is not Poor? Proposing a Higher International Standard for Poverty 0 0 1 241 0 2 5 1,251
Total Working Papers 18 74 227 26,157 276 555 1,355 91,771


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A National Snapshot of the Social Impact of Indonesia's Crisis 0 0 1 32 1 2 4 186
A Review of Edward Luce's In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India 0 0 1 56 0 0 7 329
A structured model of the dynamics of student learning in developing countries, with applications to policy 0 0 1 1 0 0 7 15
Aiming higher: Learning profiles and gender equality in 10 low- and middle-income countries 0 0 1 6 1 1 5 40
Cents and Sociability: Household Income and Social Capital in Rural Tanzania 1 3 7 147 4 11 30 1,698
Charles Kenny; Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding—And How We Can Improve the World Even More 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 105
Civil Liberties, Democracy, and the Performance of Government Projects 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 642
Comment on: Institutions, trade, and growth 0 0 0 76 0 1 2 219
Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice do not Mix 0 0 2 56 1 6 9 177
Divergence, Big Time 0 0 2 2,252 5 11 28 5,609
Does Participation Improve Performance? Establishing Causality with Subjective Data 0 0 0 2 1 4 6 996
Does public sector control reduce variance in school quality? 0 0 0 7 0 1 4 59
Doing business in a deals world: the doubly false premise of rules reform 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 10
Eating like which “Joneses?” an Iterative Solution to the Choice of a Poverty Line “Reference Group” 0 0 1 4 0 1 6 19
Effective investment in women's futures: Schooling with learning 0 0 1 2 1 2 5 12
Environmental degradation and the demand for children: searching for the vicious circle in Pakistan 0 0 0 39 1 2 2 167
Eric A. Hanushek & Ludger Woessmann, Knowledge Capital of Nations: Education and the Economics of Growth 0 0 0 36 0 1 2 111
Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) 0 1 9 154 7 13 42 734
Estimating Wealth Effects Without Expenditure Data—Or Tears: An Application To Educational Enrollments In States Of India* 1 3 5 80 8 11 20 276
Evolution of Poverty During the Crisis in Indonesia 0 0 0 109 1 1 1 364
Girls’ schooling and women’s literacy: schooling targets alone won’t reach learning goals 0 0 0 4 1 2 3 42
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 1 1 3 1,046 3 10 39 3,050
Growth Accelerations 0 0 6 910 7 17 47 2,057
How Business Is Done in the Developing World: Deals versus Rules 1 2 6 78 8 16 24 329
Income per Natural: Measuring Development for People Rather Than Places 0 0 3 58 0 1 7 216
Indicator targeting in a political economy: Leakier can be better 0 0 2 3 0 0 5 11
Intra-sub-Saharan African Trade: Is It Too Little? 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 569
Is More for the Poor Less for the Poor? The Politics of Means-Tested Targeting 1 4 21 328 3 9 42 966
It pays to be ignorant: A simple political economy of rigorous program evaluation 0 0 1 805 2 2 10 2,345
Learning equity requires more than equality: Learning goals and achievement gaps between the rich and the poor in five developing countries⋆ 0 0 1 4 2 4 8 39
Learning from Experiments When Context Matters 0 1 7 96 2 4 13 320
Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation 1 4 9 182 5 17 39 564
Looking for a break: Identifying transitions in growth regimes 2 4 6 141 7 16 22 371
Measuring outward orientation in LDCs: Can it be done? 0 0 1 914 3 4 12 1,793
National development delivers: And how! And how? 2 2 7 17 6 12 31 57
Ought ain't is: midnight thoughts on education 0 0 2 46 0 0 7 323
Robert William Fogel, Enid M. Fogel, Mark Guglielmo, and Nathaniel Grotte, Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 42
Safety Nets or Safety Ropes? Dynamic Benefit Incidence of Two Crisis Programs in Indonesia 1 1 4 114 3 3 8 285
Slow down, you’re going too fast: Matching curricula to student skill levels 1 3 6 90 6 12 37 324
Solutions When the Solution is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development 1 5 13 591 10 38 88 1,961
Tariff Rates, Tariff Revenue, and Tariff Reform: Some New Facts 0 0 0 1 3 5 10 1,343
Teacher Compensation: Can Decentralization to Local Bodies Take India from the Perfect Storm Through Troubled Waters to Clear Sailing? 0 0 0 7 0 1 2 37
Teacher Compensation: Can Decentralization to Local Bodies Take India from the Perfect Storm Through Troubled Waters to Clear Sailing? 0 0 0 42 1 2 3 135
The Effect of Household Wealth on Educational Attainment: Evidence from 35 Countries 0 4 24 217 4 18 76 633
The Learning Crisis of Developing Country Elites: Lessons from PISA-D 0 0 0 13 0 1 3 29
The Place Premium: Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers 1 6 13 100 7 23 42 418
The State, Socialisation, and Private Schooling: When Will Governments Support Alternative Producers? 0 0 0 5 1 2 7 77
The Structural-Adjustment Debate 0 0 0 3 4 9 28 829
The Tyranny of Concepts: CUDIE (Cumulated, Depreciated, Investment Effort) Is Not Capital 1 2 6 156 1 4 10 661
The Varieties of Resource Experience: Natural Resource Export Structures and the Political Economy of Economic Growth 0 0 0 4 4 6 36 1,159
The future of jobs is facing one, maybe two, of the biggest price distortions ever 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 14
The impact of public spending on health: does money matter? 0 1 3 183 1 3 7 432
The new economic case for migration restrictions: An assessment 0 4 9 76 2 11 45 450
Trillions gained and lost: Estimating the magnitude of growth episodes 0 0 3 24 0 1 11 108
Understanding Patterns of Economic Growth: Searching for Hills among Plateaus, Mountains, and Plains 1 1 2 1,002 4 10 20 3,072
Weak Links in the Chain II: A Prescription for Health Policy in Poor Countries 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 1,206
Weak Links in the Chain: A Diagnosis of Health Policy in Poor Countries 0 0 0 2 1 3 4 1,962
Wealthier is Healthier 5 12 23 565 21 48 81 1,886
What education production functions really show: a positive theory of education expenditures 0 2 4 489 0 5 24 1,430
What’s the Big Idea? The Third Generation of Policies for Economic Growth 3 8 17 219 7 12 27 653
Who is Not Poor? Dreaming of a World Truly Free of Poverty 0 0 0 3 1 3 4 476
Why Demographic Suicide? The Puzzles of European Fertility 0 0 1 28 0 1 7 97
Total Journal Articles 24 74 235 11,633 163 411 1,100 44,539
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Better Health Systems for India's Poor: Findings, Analysis, and Options 0 0 2 54 1 4 12 218
Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action 3 3 5 61 10 15 27 336
Moving Out of Poverty: Volume 2. Success from the Bottom Up 0 1 2 115 6 9 21 551
Total Books 3 4 9 230 17 28 60 1,105


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A Conclusion to Cross-National Growth Research: A Foreword ‘To the Countries Themselves’ 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 9
Deals versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It 1 2 3 28 3 5 10 138
Does Learning to Add up Add up? The Returns to Schooling in Aggregate Data 0 0 3 447 1 3 10 1,198
Towards a right to learn: concepts and measurement of global education poverty 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 6
Total Chapters 1 2 6 477 6 11 27 1,351


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