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Jere Richard Behrman

Global rank #57 99%

Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

First Publication: 1972

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pbe285 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 1.17 6.79 0.00 9.38
Last 10 Years 0.00 1.68 10.79 0.00 14.39
All Time 15.92 40.17 55.28 0.00 201.56

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 124
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 116.39

Publications (124)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Floods, community infrastructure, and children’s heterogeneous learning losses in rural India Economics of Education Review B 4
2025 Prospering through Prospera: A dynamic model of CCT impacts on educational attainment and achievement in Mexico Quantitative Economics B 4
2024 Mothers’ Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation Economic Development & Cultural Change B 8
2024 Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood: Evidence from Ethiopia and Peru Economics of Education Review B 5
2024 Corrigendum to “Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood: Evidence from Ethiopia and Peru” [Economics of Education Review, Volume 100, June 2024, Article Number 102543] Economics of Education Review B 5
2024 You are what your parents expect: Height and local reference points Journal of Econometrics A 4
2024 Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries World Development B 4
2024 Changes in adult well-being and economic inequalities: An exploratory observational longitudinal study (2002–2010) of micro-level trends among Tsimane’, a small-scale rural society of Indigenous People in the Bolivian Amazon World Development B 10
2024 Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Program World Bank Economic Review B 4
2024 TUTORING EFFICACY, HOUSEHOLD SUBSTITUTION, AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM AN AFTER‐SCHOOL TUTORING PROGRAM IN RURAL CHINA International Economic Review B 6
2023 Are Girls' and Boys' Cognitive Test Performance in Adolescence Differently Affected by Deprivation at Earlier Ages? Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 2
2023 Minimum Wages around Birth and Child Health World Bank Economic Review B 2
2022 Endogenous inclusion in the Demographic and Health Survey anthropometric sample: Implications for studying height within households Journal of Development Economics A 3
2022 Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills among adolescents in India Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 6
2022 Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa: How Much Does Sorting Matter? World Bank Economic Review B 4
2021 Genetic risks, adolescent health, and schooling attainment Health Economics B 6
2021 Maternal Undernutrition in Adolescence and Child Human Capital Development Over the Life Course: Evidence from an International Cohort Study Economica C 4
2020 Impact of the Juntos Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Nutritional and Cognitive Outcomes in Peru: Comparison between Younger and Older Initial Exposure Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2020 The Impact of a National Early Childhood Development Program on Future Schooling Attainment: Evidence from Integrated Child Development Services in India Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2019 The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program: An Illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades World Bank Economic Review B 3
2018 Do single-sex schools enhance students’ STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) outcomes? Economics of Education Review B 3
2018 Conditional cash transfers for primary education: Which children are left out? World Development B 5
2018 The effect of natural disaster on fertility, birth spacing, and child sex ratio: evidence from a major earthquake in India Journal of Population Economics B 3
2017 Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality: Parental Resources and Schooling Attainment and Children’s Human Capital in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam Economic Development & Cultural Change B 8
2016 Teacher Quality in Public and Private Schools under a Voucher System: The Case of Chile Journal of Labor Economics A 4
2015 Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries Journal of Human Resources A 11
2015 Perception of HIV risk and the quantity and quality of children: the case of rural Malawi Journal of Population Economics B 3
2015 Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools Journal of Political Economy S 4
2014 Do more-schooled women have fewer children and delay childbearing? Evidence from a sample of US twins Journal of Population Economics B 2
2014 Does parental absence reduce cognitive achievements? Evidence from rural China Journal of Development Economics A 5
2013 Does more schooling improve health outcomes and health related behaviors? Evidence from U.K. twins Economics of Education Review B 3
2013 Math skills and market and non-market outcomes: Evidence from an Amazonian society of forager-farmers Economics of Education Review B 7
2012 How Financial Literacy Affects Household Wealth Accumulation American Economic Review S 4
2012 A comparison of EPI sampling, probability sampling, and compact segment sampling methods for micro and small enterprises Journal of Development Economics A 10
2011 Do Conditional Cash Transfers for Schooling Generate Lasting Benefits?: A Five-Year Followup of PROGRESA/Oportunidades Journal of Human Resources A 3
2010 The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Mexican PROGRESA Anti-Poverty and Human Resource Investment Conditional Cash World Development B 1
2009 Schooling Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers on Young Children: Evidence from Mexico Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2009 On what diseases and health conditions should new economic research on health and development focus? Health Economics B 3
2008 Improving quality versus increasing the quantity of schooling: Estimates of rates of return from rural Pakistan Journal of Development Economics A 3
2007 Economic Policy Changes and Wage Differentials in Latin America Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2006 Parental Wealth and Adult Children's Welfare in Marriage Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2005 Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Reply American Economic Review S 2
2005 Programme Evaluation with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Selective Implementation: The Mexican PROGRESA Impact on Child Nutrition Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 2
2005 Family Background, Service Providers, and Early Childhood Development in the Philippines: Proxies and Interactions Economic Development & Cultural Change B 5
2005 Progressing through PROGRESA: An Impact Assessment of a School Subsidy Experiment in Rural Mexico Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2004 Evaluating Preschool Programs When Length of Exposure to the Program Varies: A Nonparametric Approach Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
2004 Returns to Birthweight Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2004 Parental Allocations to Children: New Evidence on Bequest Differences among Siblings Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2002 Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? American Economic Review S 2
2001 Child Health and School Enrollment: A Longitudinal Analysis Journal of Human Resources A 4
2001 Household schooling behaviors and decentralization Economics of Education Review B 2
1999 "Ability" biases in schooling returns and twins: a test and new estimates Economics of Education Review B 2
1999 Household Income and Child Schooling in Vietnam. World Bank Economic Review B 2
1999 Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth Journal of Political Economy S 4
1997 The Income Gap in Cognitive Skills in Rural Pakistan. Economic Development & Cultural Change B 5
1997 School quality and cognitive achievement production: A case study for rural Pakistan Economics of Education Review B 4
1997 The dynamics of agricultural production and the calorie-income relationship: Evidence from Pakistan Journal of Econometrics A 3
1996 Decomposing the Gender Gap in Cognitive Skills in a Poor Rural Economy Journal of Human Resources A 4
1996 Measuring the effectiveness of schooling policies in developing countries: Revisiting issues of methodology Economics of Education Review B 1
1996 College Choice and Wages: Estimates Using Data on Female Twins. Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
1995 Are There Differential Returns to Schooling by Gender? The Case of Indonesian Labour Markets. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 2
1995 Marriage Markets, Labor Markets, and Unobserved Human Capital: An Empirical Exploration for South-Central India. Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
1994 Caveat emptor: Cross-country data on education and the labor force Journal of Development Economics A 2
1994 Endowments and the Allocation of Schooling in the Family and in the Marriage Market: The Twins Experiment. Journal of Political Economy S 3
1993 The Intrahousehold Distribution of Market Labour Supply in Rural South India. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 2
1993 The economic rationale for investing in nutrition in developing countries World Development B 1
1993 Unobserved Household and Community Heterogeneity and the Labor Market Impact of Schooling: A Case Study for Indonesia. Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
1992 The CET-CES-Generalized Leontief Variable Profit Function: An Application to Indian Agriculture. Oxford Economic Papers C 1
1992 The Synthesis Economic Fertility Model: A Latent Variable Investigation of Some Critical Attributes. Journal of Population Economics B 2
1991 School Repetition, Dropouts, and the Rates of Return to Schooling: The Case of Indonesia. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 2
1991 Black-white mortality inequalities Journal of Econometrics A 4
1991 The Poor and the Social Sectors during a Period of Macroeconomic Adjustment: Empirical Evidence for Jamaica. World Bank Economic Review B 2
1990 A Comparison and Latent Variable Test of Two Fertile Ideas. Journal of Population Economics B 2
1990 The Intrahousehold Demand for Nutrients in Rural South India: Individual Estimates, Fixed Effects, and Permanent Income Journal of Human Resources A 2
1989 . . . Of the Fittest? Duration of Survival of Manufacturing Establishments in a Developing Country. Journal of Industrial Economics A 2
1989 The simple analytics of contraceptive social marketing World Development B 1
1989 Is Variety the Spice of Life? Implications for Calorie Intake. Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1989 Family Resources, Family Size, and Access to Financing for College Education. Journal of Political Economy S 3
1989 Is Schooling "Mostly in the Genes"? Nature-N urture Decomposition Using Data on Relatives. Journal of Political Economy S 2
1989 Does More Schooling Make Women Better Nourished and Healthier? Adult Sibling Random and Fixed Effects Estimates for Nicaragua Journal of Human Resources A 2
1988 Nutrition, health, birth order and seasonality : Intrahousehold allocation among children in rural India Journal of Development Economics A 1
1988 The equity-productivity tradeoff: : Public school resources in Brazil European Economic Review B 2
1988 Intrahousehold Allocation of Nutrients in Rural India: Are Boys Favored? Do Parents Exhibit Inequality Aversion? Oxford Economic Papers C 1
1988 Nutrients: Impacts and Determinants. World Bank Economic Review B 3
1988 The Reward for Good Timing: Cohort Effects and Earnings Functions for Brazilian Males. Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1988 Supply and Demand Variations and Export Earnings Instability: Response to a Further Comment. Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1
1987 The Distribution of Public Services: An Exploration of Local Governmental Preferences. American Economic Review S 2
1987 Change and challenge in the world economy : Bela Balassa, (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1985) pp. xxxviii + 484 Journal of Development Economics A 1
1987 Investments in schooling in two generations in pre-revolutionary Nicaragua : The roles of family background and school supply Journal of Development Economics A 2
1987 Schooling in developing countries: Which countries are the Over- and underachievers and what is the schooling impact? Economics of Education Review B 1
1987 Schooling and other human capital investments: Can the effects be identified? Economics of Education Review B 1
1987 How does mother's schooling affect family health, nutrition, medical care usage, and household sanitation? Journal of Econometrics A 2
1987 Women's schooling and children's health : Are the effects robust with adult sibling control for the women's childhood background? Journal of Health Economics B 2
1987 Commodity price instability and economic goal attainment in developing countries World Development B 1
1987 Will Developing Country Nutrition Improve with Income? A Case Study for Rural South India. Journal of Political Economy S 2
1987 Comment on "Returns to Education: A Further International Update and Implications" Journal of Human Resources A 2
1986 Shadow prices and subsides in Botswana Journal of Development Economics A 1
1986 Child Quantity and Quality in a Developing Country: Family Background, Endogenous Tastes, and Biological Supply Factors. Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
1986 Birth Order, Schooling, and Earnings. Journal of Labor Economics A 2
1985 The Quality of Schooling: Reply. American Economic Review S 2
1985 Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the United States: Some Estimates and a Test of Becker's Intergenerational Endowments Model. Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1985 Human Capital and Earnings Distribution in a Developing Country: The Case of Prerevolutionary Nicaragua. Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
1984 Does Geographical Aggregation Cause Overestimates of the Returns to Schooling? Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 2
1984 More evidence on nutrition demand : Income seems overrated and women's schooling underemphasized Journal of Development Economics A 2
1984 Labor force participation and earnings determinants for women in the special conditions of developing countries Journal of Development Economics A 2
1984 Who is schooled in developing countries? The roles of income, parental schooling, sex, residence and family size Economics of Education Review B 2
1984 The Socioeconomic Impact of Schooling in a Developing Country. Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1984 Determinants of Women's Health Status and Health-Care Utilization in a Developing Country: A Latent Variable Approach. Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1984 The Importance of Supply and Demand Variations in Earnings Instability: Comment. Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1
1983 The Impact of Minimum Wages on the Distributions of Earnings for Major Race-Sex Groups: A Dynamic Analysis. American Economic Review S 3
1983 The Quality of Schooling: Quantity Alone is Misleading. American Economic Review S 2
1983 A Simulation Alternative to the Comparative R2 Approach to Decomposing Inequality. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 3
1983 Is Income Overrated in Determining Adequate Nutrition? Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
1982 Review article on Hollis B. Chenery, structural change and development policy Journal of Development Economics A 1
1982 Determinants of child mortality, health, and nutrition in a developing country Journal of Development Economics A 2
1982 The impact of demographic changes on income distribution in a developing country Journal of Development Economics A 3
1982 Parental Preferences and Provision for Progeny. Journal of Political Economy S 3
1981 Macro models for developing countries : Lance Taylor, (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1979) pp. xii+271. Journal of Development Economics A 1
1979 Measuring the Impact of Primary Commodity Fluctuations on Economic Development: Coffee and Brazil. American Economic Review S 3
1977 Rice and risk: Decision making among low-income farmers : James A. Roumasset (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1976) pp. xxi+251, $34.75. Journal of Development Economics A 1
1976 Intergenerational Transmission of Income and Wealth. American Economic Review S 2
1976 Inflation in developing countries: An econometric study of Chilean inflation : V. Corbo Lioi, (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1974) pp.xiv+286 Journal of Development Economics A 1
1972 Sectoral Investment Determination in a Developing Economy. American Economic Review S 1
1972 Short-Run Flexibility in a Developing Economy. Journal of Political Economy S 1