Jyotsna Jalan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6448019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jyotsna Jalan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jyotsna |
| FAMILY NAME | Jalan |
| SIGNATURE | JALAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Statistical Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The importance of being informed
Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India?
Estimating the Benefit Incidence of an Antipoverty Program by Propensity-Score Matching
We apply recent advances in propensity-score matching (PSM) to the problem of estimating the distribution of net income gains from an Argentinean workfare program. PSM has a number of attractive features in this context, including the need to allow for heterogeneous impacts, while optimally weighting observed characteristics when forming a comparison group. The average direct gain to the participant is found to be about half the gross wage. Over …
Geographic poverty traps? A micro model of consumption growth in rural China
How important are neighbourhood endowments of physical and human capital in explaining diverging fortunes over time for otherwise identical households in a developing rural economy? To answer this question we develop an estimable micro model of consumption growth allowing for constraints on factor mobility and externalities, whereby geographic capital can influence the productivity of a household's own capital. Our statistical test has considerab…
Household Income Dynamics in Rural China
Theoretical work has shown that nonlinear dynamics in household incomes can yield poverty traps and distribution-dependent growth. If this is true, the potential implications for policy are dramatic: effective social protection from transient poverty would be an investment with lasting benefits, and pro-poor redistribution would promote aggregate economic growth. The authors test for nonlinearity in the dynamics of household incomes and expenditu…
Behavioral responses to risk in rural China
Is transient poverty different? Evidence for rural China
We define ‘transient poverty’ as the component of time‐mean consumption poverty at household level that is directly attributable to variability in consumption; this can be thought of as a measure of vulnerability to falling consumption. The non‐transient component then depends solely on mean consumption over time, and we call this ‘chronic poverty’. Using robust semi‐parametric methods and household panel data for rural China, we test whether tra…
Spatial Poverty Traps?
Can place of residence make the difference between growth and contraction in living standards for otherwise identical households? The authors test for the existence of spatial poverty traps, using a micro model of consumption growth incorporating geographic externalities, whereby neighborhood endowments of physical and human capital influence the productivity of a household's own capital. By allowing for nonstationary but unobserved individual ef…
Are the poor less well insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China
Transient Poverty in Postreform Rural China
Geographic poverty traps? A micro model of consumption growth in rural China
How important are neighbourhood endowments of physical and human capital in explaining diverging fortunes over time for otherwise identical households in a developing rural economy? To answer this question we develop an estimable micro model of consumption growth allowing for constraints on factor mobility and externalities, whereby geographic capital can influence the productivity of a household's own capital. Our statistical test has considerab…
The importance of being informed
Are the poor less well insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China
Behavioral responses to risk in rural China
Transient Poverty in Postreform Rural China
Spatial Poverty Traps?
Can place of residence make the difference between growth and contraction in living standards for otherwise identical households? The authors test for the existence of spatial poverty traps, using a micro model of consumption growth incorporating geographic externalities, whereby neighborhood endowments of physical and human capital influence the productivity of a household's own capital. By allowing for nonstationary but unobserved individual ef…
Are the poor less well insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China
Is transient poverty different? Evidence for rural China
We define ‘transient poverty’ as the component of time‐mean consumption poverty at household level that is directly attributable to variability in consumption; this can be thought of as a measure of vulnerability to falling consumption. The non‐transient component then depends solely on mean consumption over time, and we call this ‘chronic poverty’. Using robust semi‐parametric methods and household panel data for rural China, we test whether tra…
Household Income Dynamics in Rural China
Theoretical work has shown that nonlinear dynamics in household incomes can yield poverty traps and distribution-dependent growth. If this is true, the potential implications for policy are dramatic: effective social protection from transient poverty would be an investment with lasting benefits, and pro-poor redistribution would promote aggregate economic growth. The authors test for nonlinearity in the dynamics of household incomes and expenditu…
Behavioral responses to risk in rural China
Geographic poverty traps? A micro model of consumption growth in rural China
How important are neighbourhood endowments of physical and human capital in explaining diverging fortunes over time for otherwise identical households in a developing rural economy? To answer this question we develop an estimable micro model of consumption growth allowing for constraints on factor mobility and externalities, whereby geographic capital can influence the productivity of a household's own capital. Our statistical test has considerab…
Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India?
Estimating the Benefit Incidence of an Antipoverty Program by Propensity-Score Matching
We apply recent advances in propensity-score matching (PSM) to the problem of estimating the distribution of net income gains from an Argentinean workfare program. PSM has a number of attractive features in this context, including the need to allow for heterogeneous impacts, while optimally weighting observed characteristics when forming a comparison group. The average direct gain to the participant is found to be about half the gross wage. Over …
The importance of being informed
Economics (9 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (7 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (7 works) · China (6 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Econometrics (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Poverty (5 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (4 works)