Research

Publications | Working Papers | Work in Progress

Publications

• Agüero, Jorge and Mindy Marks (2008) “Motherhood and Female labor Force Participation. Evidence from Fertility Shocks”, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 98(2):500-504, May. [bibtex]

• Carter, Michael; Julian May; Jorge Agüero and Sonya Ravindranath (2007) “The Economic Impact of Severe Illness and Prime Age Mortality: Evidence from Panel Data from South Africa.” AIDS, 21(suppl 7):S67-S73. [bibtex]

• May, Julian; Jorge Agüero; Michael Carter and Ian Timaeus (2007) “The KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) 3rd Wave: Methodology, First Findings and an Agenda for Future Research,”Development Southern Africa, 24(5):629-648, December.[bibtex]

• Agüero, Jorge; Michael Carter and Julian May (2007) “Poverty and Inequality in the First Decade of Democracy: Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal.” Journal of African Economies, 16(5):782–812. [bibtex]

• Agüero, Jorge and Brian Gould (2003) “Household Composition and Brazilian Food Purchases: An Expenditure System Approach” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 51:323-345. [bibtex]

Working Papers

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• Agüero, Jorge; Michael Carter and Ingrid Woolard (2009) “The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant.” [pdf] Submitted.

• Agüero, Jorge and Mindy Marks (2008) "A New Approach to Estimate the Effect of Family Size on Child Development.” [pdf].

• Agüero, Jorge (2008) "Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa.” Submitted.

• Agüero, Jorge (2008) “Asymmetric Prices Adjustments and Behavior Under risk: Evidence from Peruvian Agricultural Markets.”

• Agüero, Jorge (2008) “Are Intra-household Allocations Efficient? Evidence from Monte Carlo Simulations.” [pdf]

Working in Progress

• A Social Welfare Approach to Evaluating the Millennium Development Goals (with Neha Raykar).
• Early Child Development in Ecuador.
• Returns to Education in Zimbabwe. Evidence from rapid school construction.
• Short and Long-run Effects of Being Born During a Drought. Evidence from Zimbabwe.
• Healthier is Wealthier but for Whom? (with Monica Jain).