Jere Behrman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jere Behrman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jere |
| FAMILY NAME | Behrman |
| SIGNATURE | BEHRMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Who is exposed and who is harmed? Social disparities in flood exposure and impact in Pernambuco, Brazil
How do geospatial sorting and social stratification condition natural-disaster exposure and impact? Using the case of the May 2022 flash floods in Pernambuco, Brazil, we address this question with a dual-source approach that captures disparities in both exposure to anomalously high rainfall and the reported impacts of resulting floods. While exposure to anomalous rainfall is tied to geospatial segregation patterns, reported impacts may also refle…
Introduction: Harmonization Recommendations from the Gateway to Global Aging Data
Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Taxonomy
Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) in the Arab region vulnerable to poverty. Yet, previous studies show mixed results regarding the extent of FHH poverty and the absence of household-panel-survey data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We address these challenges by proposing a novel classification of FHHs and analyze synthetic panels constructed from 20 rounds of repeated-cross-sectional surveys from Egyp…
Girls' schooling is important but insufficient to promote equality for boys and girls in childhood and across the life course
Long-term effects of early life rainfall shocks on foundational cognitive skills: Evidence from Peru
Global warming is changing precipitation patterns, particularly harming communities in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Whilst the long-term effects of being exposed to rainfall shocks early in life on school-achievement tests are well-established, there is little population-based evidence from LMICs on the mechanisms through which these shocks operate. Executive functions (EFs) are key for children's learning abilities. This paper analys…
Cluster randomized controlled trial of a phone-based caregiver support and parenting program for Syrian and Jordanian families with young children
Mothers' Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation
Social connections are fundamental to human well-being. We examine the social networks of mothers of young children in rural Odisha, India. Gendered norms around marriage, mobility, and work likely shape this group’s opportunities to form and maintain ties. We track 2, 170 mothers’ networks over 4 years and find a high degree of isolation. Wealthier women and women from more-advantaged castes and tribes have smaller networks than their less-advan…
Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries
Returning to school after Covid-19 closures: Who is missing in Malawi
Same environment, stratified impacts? Air pollution, extreme temperatures, and birth weight in South China
Global estimates of the implications of Covid-19-related preprimary school closures for children’s instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing
Observational data collected prior to the pandemic (between 2004 and 2019) were used to simulate the potential consequences of early childhood care and education (ECCE) service closures on the estimated 167 million preprimary-age children in 196 countries who lost ECCE access between March 2020 and February 2021. COVID-19-related ECCE disruptions were estimated to result in 19.01 billion person-days of ECCE instruction lost, 10.75 million additio…
Maternal Undernutrition in Adolescence and Child Human Capital Development Over the Life Course: Evidence from an International Cohort Study
Adolescence has been highlighted as a period when environments are critical for the human capital development of women, and thus of their children, but evidence on this from low‐ and middle‐income countries is scarce. We estimate the effect of mother’s adolescent undernutrition on offspring growth and development from infancy through adolescence using data from an international cohort study in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam, and instrumental v…
Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries
A behavioral design approach to improving a Chagas disease vector control campaign in Peru
Careful attention to how behavioral design may affect internal and external validity of evaluations and the scalability of interventions is needed going forward. We recommend behavioral design as a useful complement to other intervention design and evaluation approaches in global health programs
Measuring and predicting process quality in Ghanaian pre-primary classrooms using the Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes System (TIPPS)
Family structure and child development in Chile: A longitudinal analysis of household transitions involving fathers and grandparents
BACKGROUND: Adults support child development economically, socially, and emotionally. Household transitions may disrupt these support structures, impacting child development. OBJECTIVE: We document the large portion of children in Chile that experience biological-father and grandparent household transitions, and test if these transitions are associated with child vocabulary and behavior and if income could be a mechanism behind our findings. METH…
Parental preferences and allocations of investments in children's learning and health within families
Growth Faltering in the First Thousand Days after Conception and Catch-up Growth
Early-life growth faltering is widespread: approximately170 million children under 5 years old are stunted. Growth faltering in the first thousand days (FTD) after conception is associated negatively with educational, labor market, marriage market, adult health, and intergenerational outcomes. This chapter looks at pertinent questions: is FTD growth faltering immutable, or is catch-up growth possible? Do associations with important subsequent out…
Twins Studies in Economics
This chapter describes strengths and limitations of three twins methods developed in economics: control for unobserved genetic and family background endowments using monozygotic (MZ) twins fixed effects (FE) to estimate e.g. impacts of schooling on wages, health, and other outcomes; estimation of key parameters in intrafamilial models of investment in children using MZ and dizygotic (DZ) twins; and investigation of familial responses to fertility…
Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries
Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and non-cognitive ability appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This paper provides new evidence of sharp differences in cognitive development by socioeconomic status in early childhood for five Latin American countries. To help with comparability, we use the same measure of receptive language ability for all five c…
Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries
Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries
Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and noncognitive abilities appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This paper provides new evidence of sharp differences in cognitive development by socioeconomic status in early childhood for five Latin American countries. To help with comparability, the paper uses the same measure of receptive language ability for a…
Intergenerational Transfers in the Era of HIV/Aids: Evidence from Rural Malawi
BACKGROUND: Intergenerational transfer patterns in sub-Saharan Africa are poorly understood, despite the alleged importance of support networks to ameliorate the complex implications of the HIV/AIDS epidemic for families. OBJECTIVE: There is a considerable need for research on intergenerational support networks and transfers to better understand the mechanisms through which extended families cope with the HIV/AIDS epidemic and potentially allevia…
Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries
A comparison of EPI sampling, probability sampling, and compact segment sampling methods for micro and small enterprises
Attrition in Longitudinal Household Survey Data: Some Tests for Three Developing-Country Samples
Longitudinal household data can have considerable advantages over much more widely used cross-sectional data for capturing dynamic demographic relationships. Because the collection of longitudinal data may be difficult and expensive, analysts need to a
Introduction to 'Research on Demographic Aspects of HIV/Aids in Rural Africa
This paper introduces a set of papers presented at the conference "Research on Demographic Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Rural Africa", held at the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, October 28-29, 2002. The aim of the conference wa
Intergenerational Transfers in the Era of HIV/Aids: Evidence from Rural Malawi
BACKGROUND: Intergenerational transfer patterns in sub-Saharan Africa are poorly understood, despite the alleged importance of support networks to ameliorate the complex implications of the HIV/AIDS epidemic for families. OBJECTIVE: There is a considerable need for research on intergenerational support networks and transfers to better understand the mechanisms through which extended families cope with the HIV/AIDS epidemic and potentially allevia…
Parental preferences and allocations of investments in children's learning and health within families
Empirical Assessments of Social Networks, Fertility and Family Planning Programs: Nonlinearities and their Implications
Empirical studies of the diffusion of modern methods of family planning have increasing incorporated social interaction within nonlinear models such as logits. But they have not considered the full implications of these nonlinear specifications. Thi
Family structure and child development in Chile: A longitudinal analysis of household transitions involving fathers and grandparents
BACKGROUND: Adults support child development economically, socially, and emotionally. Household transitions may disrupt these support structures, impacting child development. OBJECTIVE: We document the large portion of children in Chile that experience biological-father and grandparent household transitions, and test if these transitions are associated with child vocabulary and behavior and if income could be a mechanism behind our findings. METH…
Measuring and predicting process quality in Ghanaian pre-primary classrooms using the Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes System (TIPPS)
Returning to school after Covid-19 closures: Who is missing in Malawi
A comparison of EPI sampling, probability sampling, and compact segment sampling methods for micro and small enterprises
Microeconomics of College Choice, Careers, and Wages
Understanding the economic payoff to human capital investments is very important from the standpoint both of individuals and of society. However, this article argues that correctly estimating these impacts necessitates having a well-developed idea of the microeconomic determinants of human behavior. Without this, empirical analyses of such topics as career choice, college choice, or wage determination will be flawed. The authors begin the article…
Marriage Markets, Labor Markets, and Unobserved Human Capital: An Empirical Exploration for South-Central India
Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries
Same environment, stratified impacts? Air pollution, extreme temperatures, and birth weight in South China
A summary of Special Collection 1: Social Interactions and HIV/Aids in Rural Africa
Special Collection 1: Social Interactions and HIV/AIDS in Rural Africa is a set of papers stemming from the conference "Research on Demographic Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Rural Africa", held at the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Oct
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the United States: Some Estimates and a Test of Becker's Intergenerational Endowments Model
Jere Behrman, Paul Taubman, Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the United States: Some Estimates and a Test of Becker's Intergenerational Endowments Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 144-151
Marriage Markets, Labor Markets, and Unobserved Human Capital: An Empirical Exploration for South-Central India
Microeconomics of College Choice, Careers, and Wages
Understanding the economic payoff to human capital investments is very important from the standpoint both of individuals and of society. However, this article argues that correctly estimating these impacts necessitates having a well-developed idea of the microeconomic determinants of human behavior. Without this, empirical analyses of such topics as career choice, college choice, or wage determination will be flawed. The authors begin the article…
Empirical Assessments of Social Networks, Fertility and Family Planning Programs: Nonlinearities and their Implications
Empirical studies of the diffusion of modern methods of family planning have increasing incorporated social interaction within nonlinear models such as logits. But they have not considered the full implications of these nonlinear specifications. Thi
Attrition in Longitudinal Household Survey Data: Some Tests for Three Developing-Country Samples
Longitudinal household data can have considerable advantages over much more widely used cross-sectional data for capturing dynamic demographic relationships. Because the collection of longitudinal data may be difficult and expensive, analysts need to a
Introduction to 'Research on Demographic Aspects of HIV/Aids in Rural Africa
This paper introduces a set of papers presented at the conference "Research on Demographic Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Rural Africa", held at the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, October 28-29, 2002. The aim of the conference wa
A summary of Special Collection 1: Social Interactions and HIV/Aids in Rural Africa
Special Collection 1: Social Interactions and HIV/AIDS in Rural Africa is a set of papers stemming from the conference "Research on Demographic Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Rural Africa", held at the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Oct
Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries
A comparison of EPI sampling, probability sampling, and compact segment sampling methods for micro and small enterprises
Out of Sync? Demographic and other social science research on health conditions in developing countries
In this paper, we present a framework for considering whether the marginal social benefits of demographic and social science research on various health conditions in developing countries are likely to be relatively high. Based on this framework, we argue that the relative current and future predicted prevalence of burdens of different health/disease conditions, as measured by disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), provide a fairly accurate refle…
Intergenerational Transfers in the Era of HIV/Aids: Evidence from Rural Malawi
BACKGROUND: Intergenerational transfer patterns in sub-Saharan Africa are poorly understood, despite the alleged importance of support networks to ameliorate the complex implications of the HIV/AIDS epidemic for families. OBJECTIVE: There is a considerable need for research on intergenerational support networks and transfers to better understand the mechanisms through which extended families cope with the HIV/AIDS epidemic and potentially allevia…
Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries
Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries
Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and noncognitive abilities appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This paper provides new evidence of sharp differences in cognitive development by socioeconomic status in early childhood for five Latin American countries. To help with comparability, the paper uses the same measure of receptive language ability for a…
Growth Faltering in the First Thousand Days after Conception and Catch-up Growth
Early-life growth faltering is widespread: approximately170 million children under 5 years old are stunted. Growth faltering in the first thousand days (FTD) after conception is associated negatively with educational, labor market, marriage market, adult health, and intergenerational outcomes. This chapter looks at pertinent questions: is FTD growth faltering immutable, or is catch-up growth possible? Do associations with important subsequent out…
Twins Studies in Economics
This chapter describes strengths and limitations of three twins methods developed in economics: control for unobserved genetic and family background endowments using monozygotic (MZ) twins fixed effects (FE) to estimate e.g. impacts of schooling on wages, health, and other outcomes; estimation of key parameters in intrafamilial models of investment in children using MZ and dizygotic (DZ) twins; and investigation of familial responses to fertility…
Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries
Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and non-cognitive ability appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This paper provides new evidence of sharp differences in cognitive development by socioeconomic status in early childhood for five Latin American countries. To help with comparability, we use the same measure of receptive language ability for all five c…
Parental preferences and allocations of investments in children's learning and health within families
Measuring and predicting process quality in Ghanaian pre-primary classrooms using the Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes System (TIPPS)
Family structure and child development in Chile: A longitudinal analysis of household transitions involving fathers and grandparents
BACKGROUND: Adults support child development economically, socially, and emotionally. Household transitions may disrupt these support structures, impacting child development. OBJECTIVE: We document the large portion of children in Chile that experience biological-father and grandparent household transitions, and test if these transitions are associated with child vocabulary and behavior and if income could be a mechanism behind our findings. METH…
Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries
A behavioral design approach to improving a Chagas disease vector control campaign in Peru
Careful attention to how behavioral design may affect internal and external validity of evaluations and the scalability of interventions is needed going forward. We recommend behavioral design as a useful complement to other intervention design and evaluation approaches in global health programs
Global estimates of the implications of Covid-19-related preprimary school closures for children’s instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing
Observational data collected prior to the pandemic (between 2004 and 2019) were used to simulate the potential consequences of early childhood care and education (ECCE) service closures on the estimated 167 million preprimary-age children in 196 countries who lost ECCE access between March 2020 and February 2021. COVID-19-related ECCE disruptions were estimated to result in 19.01 billion person-days of ECCE instruction lost, 10.75 million additio…
Maternal Undernutrition in Adolescence and Child Human Capital Development Over the Life Course: Evidence from an International Cohort Study
Adolescence has been highlighted as a period when environments are critical for the human capital development of women, and thus of their children, but evidence on this from low‐ and middle‐income countries is scarce. We estimate the effect of mother’s adolescent undernutrition on offspring growth and development from infancy through adolescence using data from an international cohort study in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam, and instrumental v…
Returning to school after Covid-19 closures: Who is missing in Malawi
Same environment, stratified impacts? Air pollution, extreme temperatures, and birth weight in South China
Economics (20 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Demography (14 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (14 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (8 works)