Hanan G Jacoby
Biographic Data
| ID | 227728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanan G Jacoby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanan G |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacoby |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBY H G |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7061-4425 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Efficient irrigation and water conservation: Evidence from South India
Widespread adoption of efficient irrigation technologies, including drip irrigation, has been proposed to limit groundwater over-exploitation, especially in water-stressed South Asia. This paper evaluates the potential productivity and water-saving benefits of smallholder drip irrigation by conducting a randomized control trial in Andhra Pradesh, India. A group of well-owners was offered a subsidy to adopt drip irrigation, while a comparable grou…
Decentralization and Redistribution: Irrigation Reform in Pakistan's Indus Basin
Does decentralizing the allocation of public resources reduce rent-seeking and improve equity? This paper studies a governance reform in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge measurements across all of Punjab province, the analysis finds that water theft increased on channels taken over by local farmer organizations compared with channels that remained bureaucratically managed, leading to substantial wealth redistri…
Changing wage structure in India in the post-reform era: 1993–2011
This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand framework is applied at the level of the Indian state. While real wages have risen across India over the past two decades, the increase has been greater in rural areas and, especially, for unskilled workers. The analysis finds that, in rural areas, th…
Monsoon Babies: Rainfall Shocks and Child Nutrition in Nepal
Do household consumption-smoothing strategies in poor countries entail significant long-run costs in terms of reduced human capital? We exploit the timing of monsoon rainfall shocks and the seasonal nature of agriculture to isolate income effects on early childhood anthropometric outcomes in rural Nepal and to provide evidence on the persistence of these effects into later childhood. We find that a 10% increase in rainfall from historic norms dur…
Watta Satta: Bride Exchange and Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan
Can marriage institutions limit marital inefficiency? We study the pervasive custom of watta satta in rural Pakistan, a bride exchange between families coupled with a mutual threat of retaliation. Watta satta can be seen as a mechanism for coordinating the actions of two sets of parents, each wishing to restrain their son-in-law. We find that marital discord, as measured by estrangement, domestic abuse, and wife's mental health, is indeed signifi…
On Measuring The Benefits Of Lower Transport Costs
Is Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa Cost-Effective? Evidence from Madagascar
Formalizing land rights has been promoted as a way to encourage agricultural investment and stimulate land markets, yet little is known about the benefits of such policies in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the preconditions for success are less favorable. The analysis uses a large sample of plots from an intensively titled rice-growing area of Madagascar and compares land-specific investments, land productivity, and land values for titled and untitled…
Incentives, Supervision, And Sharecropper Productivity
Economic growth and the demand for education: Is there a wealth effect
Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural China
We use household data from northeast China to examine the link between investment and land tenure insecurity induced by China's system of village-level land reallocation. We quantify expropriation risk using a hazard analysis of individual plot tenures and incorporate the predicted “hazards of expropriation” into an empirical analysis of plot-level investment. Our focus is on organic fertilizer use, which has long-lasting benefits for soil qualit…
Is There an Intrahousehold ‘Flypaper Effect’? Evidence from a School Feeding Programme
Are public transfers targeted toward children neutralised by the household, as the theory of altruism implies, or is there an intrahousehold "flypaper effect" whereby such transfers "stick" to the child? This paper studies the impact of a school feeding programme on child caloric intake in the Philippines using a quasi-experimental methodology. The empirical results confirm an intrahousehold flypaper effect; indeed, they indicate virtually no int…
Early childhood nutrition and academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis
Access to Markets and the Benefits of Rural Roads
Roads play a central role in rural development, yet little is known about the size and distribution of benefits from such investments. This paper develops a method for estimating household-level benefits from road projects using the relationship between the value of farmland and its distance to agricultural markets. The empirical analysis, using data from Nepal, suggests that providing extensive road access to markets would confer substantial ben…
Risk, Financial Markets, and Human Capital in a Developing Country
This paper explores the link between financial market incompleteness and human capital accumulation. We examine how child school attendance responds to seasonal fluctuations in the income of agrarian households using panel data from rural India. To pinpoint market imperfections, we study responses to aggregate and idiosyncratic, as well as to anticipated and unanticipated, income shocks. Our main finding is that seasonal fluctuations in school at…
An Economic Analysis of Delayed Primary School Enrollment in a Low Income Country: The Role of Early Childhood Nutrition
Paul Glewwe, Hanan G. Jacoby, An Economic Analysis of Delayed Primary School Enrollment in a Low Income Country: The Role of Early Childhood Nutrition, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (Feb., 1995), pp. 156-169
Borrowing Constraints and Progress Through School: Evidence from Peru
This paper investigates the effect of borrowing constraints on the timing of human capital investment in a developing country by looking at how quickly children with different family backgrounds progress through the primary school system in Peru. The main findings are that children start withdrawing from school earlier, as indicated by repetition of grades, in households with lower income and durable good holdings and when children are more close…
Shadow Wages and Peasant Family Labour Supply: An Econometric Application to the Peruvian Sierra
This paper develops a methodology for estimating structural time-allocation models for self-employed households and applies it to peasant family labor supply behavior in the Peruvian Sierra. The oppurtunity costs of time, or shadow wages, of household workers are explicitly estimated from an agricultural production function. Using an instrumental variables procedure, the household's structural labor supply parameters are recovered from variation …
Productivity of men and women and the sexual division of labor in peasant agriculture of the Peruvian Sierra
This paper estimates the productivity of men and women in the peasant agriculture of the Peruvian Sierra, using recent household survey data. A sexual division of labor on the farm implies that male and female labor are not perfectly substitutable. Evidence is found for female specialization on livestock production. A translog production function reveals that the use of animal traction and land affect the marginal productivity of male and female …
Economic growth and the demand for education: Is there a wealth effect
Watta Satta: Bride Exchange and Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan
Can marriage institutions limit marital inefficiency? We study the pervasive custom of watta satta in rural Pakistan, a bride exchange between families coupled with a mutual threat of retaliation. Watta satta can be seen as a mechanism for coordinating the actions of two sets of parents, each wishing to restrain their son-in-law. We find that marital discord, as measured by estrangement, domestic abuse, and wife's mental health, is indeed signifi…
Access to Markets and the Benefits of Rural Roads
Roads play a central role in rural development, yet little is known about the size and distribution of benefits from such investments. This paper develops a method for estimating household-level benefits from road projects using the relationship between the value of farmland and its distance to agricultural markets. The empirical analysis, using data from Nepal, suggests that providing extensive road access to markets would confer substantial ben…
Productivity of men and women and the sexual division of labor in peasant agriculture of the Peruvian Sierra
This paper estimates the productivity of men and women in the peasant agriculture of the Peruvian Sierra, using recent household survey data. A sexual division of labor on the farm implies that male and female labor are not perfectly substitutable. Evidence is found for female specialization on livestock production. A translog production function reveals that the use of animal traction and land affect the marginal productivity of male and female …
Monsoon Babies: Rainfall Shocks and Child Nutrition in Nepal
Do household consumption-smoothing strategies in poor countries entail significant long-run costs in terms of reduced human capital? We exploit the timing of monsoon rainfall shocks and the seasonal nature of agriculture to isolate income effects on early childhood anthropometric outcomes in rural Nepal and to provide evidence on the persistence of these effects into later childhood. We find that a 10% increase in rainfall from historic norms dur…
Is There an Intrahousehold ‘Flypaper Effect’? Evidence from a School Feeding Programme
Are public transfers targeted toward children neutralised by the household, as the theory of altruism implies, or is there an intrahousehold "flypaper effect" whereby such transfers "stick" to the child? This paper studies the impact of a school feeding programme on child caloric intake in the Philippines using a quasi-experimental methodology. The empirical results confirm an intrahousehold flypaper effect; indeed, they indicate virtually no int…
On Measuring The Benefits Of Lower Transport Costs
Incentives, Supervision, And Sharecropper Productivity
Productivity of men and women and the sexual division of labor in peasant agriculture of the Peruvian Sierra
This paper estimates the productivity of men and women in the peasant agriculture of the Peruvian Sierra, using recent household survey data. A sexual division of labor on the farm implies that male and female labor are not perfectly substitutable. Evidence is found for female specialization on livestock production. A translog production function reveals that the use of animal traction and land affect the marginal productivity of male and female …
Shadow Wages and Peasant Family Labour Supply: An Econometric Application to the Peruvian Sierra
This paper develops a methodology for estimating structural time-allocation models for self-employed households and applies it to peasant family labor supply behavior in the Peruvian Sierra. The oppurtunity costs of time, or shadow wages, of household workers are explicitly estimated from an agricultural production function. Using an instrumental variables procedure, the household's structural labor supply parameters are recovered from variation …
Borrowing Constraints and Progress Through School: Evidence from Peru
This paper investigates the effect of borrowing constraints on the timing of human capital investment in a developing country by looking at how quickly children with different family backgrounds progress through the primary school system in Peru. The main findings are that children start withdrawing from school earlier, as indicated by repetition of grades, in households with lower income and durable good holdings and when children are more close…
An Economic Analysis of Delayed Primary School Enrollment in a Low Income Country: The Role of Early Childhood Nutrition
Paul Glewwe, Hanan G. Jacoby, An Economic Analysis of Delayed Primary School Enrollment in a Low Income Country: The Role of Early Childhood Nutrition, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (Feb., 1995), pp. 156-169
Risk, Financial Markets, and Human Capital in a Developing Country
This paper explores the link between financial market incompleteness and human capital accumulation. We examine how child school attendance responds to seasonal fluctuations in the income of agrarian households using panel data from rural India. To pinpoint market imperfections, we study responses to aggregate and idiosyncratic, as well as to anticipated and unanticipated, income shocks. Our main finding is that seasonal fluctuations in school at…
Access to Markets and the Benefits of Rural Roads
Roads play a central role in rural development, yet little is known about the size and distribution of benefits from such investments. This paper develops a method for estimating household-level benefits from road projects using the relationship between the value of farmland and its distance to agricultural markets. The empirical analysis, using data from Nepal, suggests that providing extensive road access to markets would confer substantial ben…
Early childhood nutrition and academic achievement: A longitudinal analysis
Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural China
We use household data from northeast China to examine the link between investment and land tenure insecurity induced by China's system of village-level land reallocation. We quantify expropriation risk using a hazard analysis of individual plot tenures and incorporate the predicted “hazards of expropriation” into an empirical analysis of plot-level investment. Our focus is on organic fertilizer use, which has long-lasting benefits for soil qualit…
Is There an Intrahousehold ‘Flypaper Effect’? Evidence from a School Feeding Programme
Are public transfers targeted toward children neutralised by the household, as the theory of altruism implies, or is there an intrahousehold "flypaper effect" whereby such transfers "stick" to the child? This paper studies the impact of a school feeding programme on child caloric intake in the Philippines using a quasi-experimental methodology. The empirical results confirm an intrahousehold flypaper effect; indeed, they indicate virtually no int…
Economic growth and the demand for education: Is there a wealth effect
Is Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa Cost-Effective? Evidence from Madagascar
Formalizing land rights has been promoted as a way to encourage agricultural investment and stimulate land markets, yet little is known about the benefits of such policies in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the preconditions for success are less favorable. The analysis uses a large sample of plots from an intensively titled rice-growing area of Madagascar and compares land-specific investments, land productivity, and land values for titled and untitled…
Incentives, Supervision, And Sharecropper Productivity
On Measuring The Benefits Of Lower Transport Costs
Watta Satta: Bride Exchange and Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan
Can marriage institutions limit marital inefficiency? We study the pervasive custom of watta satta in rural Pakistan, a bride exchange between families coupled with a mutual threat of retaliation. Watta satta can be seen as a mechanism for coordinating the actions of two sets of parents, each wishing to restrain their son-in-law. We find that marital discord, as measured by estrangement, domestic abuse, and wife's mental health, is indeed signifi…
Monsoon Babies: Rainfall Shocks and Child Nutrition in Nepal
Do household consumption-smoothing strategies in poor countries entail significant long-run costs in terms of reduced human capital? We exploit the timing of monsoon rainfall shocks and the seasonal nature of agriculture to isolate income effects on early childhood anthropometric outcomes in rural Nepal and to provide evidence on the persistence of these effects into later childhood. We find that a 10% increase in rainfall from historic norms dur…
Decentralization and Redistribution: Irrigation Reform in Pakistan's Indus Basin
Does decentralizing the allocation of public resources reduce rent-seeking and improve equity? This paper studies a governance reform in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge measurements across all of Punjab province, the analysis finds that water theft increased on channels taken over by local farmer organizations compared with channels that remained bureaucratically managed, leading to substantial wealth redistri…
Changing wage structure in India in the post-reform era: 1993–2011
This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand framework is applied at the level of the Indian state. While real wages have risen across India over the past two decades, the increase has been greater in rural areas and, especially, for unskilled workers. The analysis finds that, in rural areas, th…
Efficient irrigation and water conservation: Evidence from South India
Widespread adoption of efficient irrigation technologies, including drip irrigation, has been proposed to limit groundwater over-exploitation, especially in water-stressed South Asia. This paper evaluates the potential productivity and water-saving benefits of smallholder drip irrigation by conducting a randomized control trial in Andhra Pradesh, India. A group of well-owners was offered a subsidy to adopt drip irrigation, while a comparable grou…
Economics (17 works) · Geography (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (6 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Agricultural economics (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works)