Research
Refereed Publications
"Effects of food prices on poverty: The case of Paraguay, a food exporter and a non-fully urbanized country," with S. Garriga and J. Puig. Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Economico, 37: 7-43, 2022.
"Distributional effects of reducing energy subsidies: Evidence from recent policy reform in Argentina", with F. Giuliano, A. Masut and J. Puig. Energy Economics, 92(C): 1049802, 2020.
"Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth: How Much Can Cross-Country Regressions Really Tell Us?". (with Ferreira, F., C. Lakner, B. Ozler) Review of Income and Wealth, 2017. doi:10.1111/roiw.12311
"Multidimensional Indicators of Inequality and Poverty" (with Satya Chakravarty) in Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Adler and Fleurbaey (eds), Oxford University Press. 2016. Reprinted in Poverty, Social Exclusion and Stochastic Dominance, S. R. Chakravarty (ed.) Themes in Economics, Springer Nature Singapore Ptd Ldt. 2019.
"Is Uruguay More Resilient This Time? Distributional Impacts of a Crisis Similar to the 2001–02 Argentine Crisis". (with Oscar Barriga Cabanillas & Maria Ana Lugo & Carlos Rodríguez-Castelan & Hannah Nielsen & Maria Pia Zanetti), Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, vol. 2(4): 64-90, 2015.
"Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Looking for a Middle Ground" (with F Ferreira) The World Bank Research Observer, 28: 220-235, 2013.
"Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in six Latin American countries" (with D. Battiston, G. Cruces, L. F. Lopez Calva and M. E. Santos) Social Indicators Research, 2013.
"Weights in multidimensional indices of well-being: An overview" (with K Decancq) Econometric Reviews, 32(1): 7-34, 2012.
"Inequality of well-being: A multidimensional approach" (with K Decancq) Economica, 79(316): 721-746, 2012. [ungated]
"The informal economy in developing countries: An introduction" (with D. Blades and F. Ferreira) Review of Income and Wealth, 57:S1-S7, 2011.
Book Review: "Multidimensional poverty measurement: Concepts and applications" by Udaya Wagle, Journal of Economic Inequality, 9(1), 2011.
"Refining the Basic Needs Approach: A multidimensional analysis of poverty in Latin America" (with ME Santos, D Battiston, G Cruces and LF Lopez Calva) Research on Economic Inequality, 18: 1-29, 2010.
"The Information Basis of Multivariate Poverty Assessments" (with E Maasoumi) in Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, Kakwani and Silber (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
"Employment: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators", Oxford Development Studies, 35(4): 361-378, 2007.
"Comparing multidimensional indices of inequality: Methods and application", Research on Economic Inequality, 14: 213-236, 2007.
"Medidas de desigualdad para variables educativas", Serie Boletines del SITEAL, UNESCO-IIPE, 4, 2006.
Working papers
"Inequality under COVID-19 : Taking Stock of High-Frequency Data for East Asia and the Pacific," with Lydia Kim, Andrew Mason and Ikuko Uochi. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series 9859, The World Bank. November 2021.
"Rural Poverty Reduction and Economic Transformation in China : A Decomposition Approach" with Chiyu Niu and Ruslan Yemtsov. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series 9849, The World Bank. November 2021. Also Stone Center Working Paper Series link
"Heterogeneous peer effects, segregation, and academic attainment". World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5718. June 2011.
"Note: Differences between sources of government expenditure in education and health". International Growth Centre. Working Paper 10/0829. March 2011
"Growth, poverty and distribution in Tanzania" with Anthony B. Atkinson. International Growth Centre, Working Paper 10/0831. November 2010
"Multidimensional Poverty Measures from an Information Theory Perspective", with E. Maasoumi. ECINEQ WP 85, 2008. Poster IARIW Conference 2008 (prize winner)
"Comparing multidimensional indices of inequality: methods and application" ECINEQ WP 14, 2005.
"Appendix. Argentine data.", 2003
"Income Distribution in Urban Argentina", M.Sc. Thesis, University of Oxford, Luca d'Agliano prize, 2001.
Books and Reports
Crisis and Recovery: Learning from COVID-19’s Economic Impacts and Policy Responses in East Asia, lead author with A. Gonzalez. World Bank. Washington, DC. 2023.
Four Decades of Poverty Reduction in China: Drivers, Insights for the World, and the Way Ahead, lead author with R. Yemtsov. World Bank. Washington, DC. 2022.
Women’s Economic Participation in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, lead author with M.Muller and M. Wai-Poi. World Bank. Washington, DC. 2018.
2018 Poverty and Shared Prosperity report: Piecing Together the Poverty Puzzle, lead author with D. Jolliffe. World Bank. Washington, DC. 2018.
Argentina SCD: Escaping Crises, Sustaining Growth, Sharing Prosperity, lead author with E. Sinnot and G. Ruta. World Bank. Washington, DC. 2018.
"Paraguay: Analisis del sistema fiscal y su impacto en la pobreza y la equidad", with L. Giménez, S. Martínez, H. Colman, J. J. Galeano and G. Farfán. World Bank. 2017. (also CEQ WP 74).
"The Incidence of Subsidies to Residential Public Services in Argentina : The Subsidy System in 2014 and Some Alternatives", with C. Lakner, J. Puig, L. Salinardi, M. Viveros. World Bank, Washington, DC. 2016 (also in Cedlas WP series here)
"Arreglos institucionales para la producción de estadísticas de pobreza". with C. Lakner, A. Medina Giopp, M. Viveros. World Bank. Washington, D.C. 2016.
Bolivia Systematic Country Diagnostic: Rebalancing inclusive growth to deepen gains on poverty and inequality reduction, with P. Siegenthaler, J. Loayza, J. Velasco, T. Tran. The World Bank. Washington, DC. 2015.
Volatility and inequality as constraints to shared prosperity: Paraguay equity assessment, with L-F. Lopez Calva, S. Garriga, A. Medina Giopp, M. Muller, L. Sousa. The World Bank. Washington, DC. 2015.
Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class, with F. Ferreira, J. Messina, J. Rigolini, L-F. López-Calva and R. Vakis. World Bank Publications, The World Bank, number 11858, September 2013.
Poverty Dynamics in Brazil: Patterns, associated factors and policy changes, with R. Bianchi Santarrosa, R. A. Castaneda, A. Fruttero, S. Lach, L-F. Lopez Calva and J. Solomon). The World Bank. Washington, DC. 2012.