Jorge Agüero

Research

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]

Agüero, Jorge (2007) "Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa.” [abstract][.pdf]
Agüero, Jorge; Michael Carter and Ingrid Woolard (2006) “The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant.” [abstract][.pdf]
Agüero, Jorge (2008) “Are Intra-household Allocations Efficient? Evidence from Monte Carlo Simulations.”[abstract] [.pdf]
Agüero, Jorge (2004) “Asymmetric Prices Adjustments and Behavior Under risk: Evidence from Peruvian Agricultural Markets.” [abstract] [.pdf]

Using Infertility Shocks to Estimate the Effect of Family Size on Child Development (with Mindy Marks.)
On the Evaluation of the Millenium Development Goals (with Neha Raykar.)
Early Child Development in Ecuador.
Returns to Education in Zimbabwe. Evidence from rapid school construction.
Healthier is Wealthier but for Whom? (with Monica Jain)