Andrew D. Foster

Brown University - Department of Economics

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Providence, RI 02912

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Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

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University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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Democratization, Decentralization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy

PIER Working Paper No. 01-056
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Feb 2002
Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig
Brown University - Department of Economics and Yale University - Economic Growth Center
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Is There Surplus Labor in Rural India?

Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 85, Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 991, Population and Economic Development Working Paper No. 10-03
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Oct 2010
Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig
Brown University - Department of Economics and Yale University - Economic Growth Center
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Agriculture, India, Scale, Profits, Labor, Tractors

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Economic Growth and the Rise of Forests

PIER Working Paper No. 02-028
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Oct 2002
Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig
Brown University - Department of Economics and Yale University - Economic Growth Center
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Technological Changes and the Distribution of Schooling: Evidence from Green-Revolution in India

PIER Working Paper No. 01-39
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 01 Nov 2001
Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig
Brown University - Department of Economics and Yale University - Economic Growth Center
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Environmental Interventions and Air Pollution (Re)distribution in Delhi, India

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Jul 2014
Naresh Kumar, Marc Linderman, Allen Chu, Sachidnand Tripathi, Andrew D. Foster and Dong Liang
University of Miami, University of Iowa, Government of the United States of America - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, Brown University - Department of Economics and University of Iowa
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Environmental Intervention, Air Pollution, Environmental Justice, Land use and land cover changes, Delhi

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Household Division and Rural Economic Growth

PIER Working Paper No. 01-049
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 09 Jan 2002
Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig
Brown University - Department of Economics and Yale University - Economic Growth Center
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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size

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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size

Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 1059
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 18 Sep 2017
Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig
Brown University - Department of Economics and Yale University - Economic Growth Center
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agriculture, scale-economies, mechanization, transaction costs

Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size

NBER Working Paper No. w23909
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 09 Oct 2017
Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig
Brown University - Department of Economics and Yale University - Economic Growth Center
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Creating Good Employment Opportunities for the Rural Sector

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Creating Good Employment Opportunities for the Rural Sector

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 271
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Oct 2011
Andrew D. Foster
Brown University - Department of Economics
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productivity growth, nonfarm employment, agriculture, wages, value-added production, quality employment

Creating Good Employment Opportunities for the Rural Sector

Asian Development Review, Volume 29, No. 1, 2012
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Jul 2012
Andrew D. Foster
Brown University - Department of Economics
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productivity growth, nonfarm employment, agriculture, wages, value-added production, quality employment

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Research Opportunities in Emerging Markets: An Inter-Disciplinary Perspective from Marketing, Economics, and Psychology

Cust. Need. and Solut. (2015) 2:264-276
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Mar 2016
Matthew Shum, K. Sudhir, Joseph R. Priester, Daniel Keniston, Andrew D. Foster, Ginger Zhe Jin, David Atkin, Ganesh Iyer, Yi Qian, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Wendy Wood, Shinobu Kitayama and Ishani Tewari
California Institute of Technology, Yale School of Management, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Yale University, Brown University - Department of Economics, University of Maryland - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Marketing Group, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Yale School of Management, University of Southern California, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Yale School of Management
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Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy

NBER Working Paper No. w13999
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 May 2008 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2008
Pedro Dal Bo, Andrew D. Foster and Louis Putterman
Brown University - Department of Economics, Brown University - Department of Economics and Brown University - Department of Economics
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The Uptick in Income Segregation: Real Trend or Random Sampling Variance

NBER Working Paper No. w23656
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Aug 2017
John Logan, Andrew D. Foster, Jun Ke and Fan Li
Brown University - Department of Sociology, Brown University - Department of Economics, Brown University and Duke University - Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
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Consumption Risk and Human Capital Accumulation in India

NBER Working Paper No. w24041
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 20 Nov 2017
Andrew D. Foster and Esther Gehrke
Brown University - Department of Economics and Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - German Development Institute (DIE)
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The Democracy Effect: A Weights-Based Identification Strategy

NBER Working Paper No. w25724
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 08 Apr 2019
Pedro Dal Bo, Andrew D. Foster and Kenju Kamei
Brown University - Department of Economics, Brown University - Department of Economics and Durham University - Department of Economics and Finance
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The Social Dimensions of Microeconomic Behavior in Low-Income Communities: Introduction to a Symposium

Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 83, No. 2, 2007
Posted: 24 May 2011
Christopher B. Barrett and Andrew D. Foster
Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Brown University - Department of Economics

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Groups, Identity, Networks, Poverty

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Microeconomics of Technology Adoption

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Microeconomics of Technology Adoption

Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 984, Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 78
Posted: 21 Jan 2010
Mark R. Rosenzweig and Andrew D. Foster
Yale University - Economic Growth Center and Brown University - Department of Economics

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technology adoption review

Microeconomics of Technology Adoption

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 2, pp. 395-424, 2010
Posted: 18 Oct 2010
Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig
Brown University - Department of Economics and Yale University - Economic Growth Center

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Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Issue 4, August 1999
Posted: 28 Sep 1999
Jere Behrman, Andrew D. Foster, Mark R. Rosenzweig and Prem Vashishtha
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, Brown University - Department of Economics, Yale University - Economic Growth Center and University of Delhi

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