Hanan G. Jacoby

World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department

Senior Economist

1818 H Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20433

United States

http://econ.worldbank.org/staff/hjacoby

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

1818 H. Street, N.W.

MSN3-311

Washington, DC 20433

United States

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Access to Markets and the Benefits of Rural Roads

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Hanan G. Jacoby
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department
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Environmental Determinants of Child Mortality in Rural China: A Competing Risks Approach

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Hanan G. Jacoby and Limin Wang
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and World Bank - Research Department
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Watta Satta: Bride Exchange and Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4126
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Hanan G. Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Population & Development, Anthropology, Education and Society, Gender and Law, Gender and Law

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Food Prices, Wages, and Welfare in Rural India

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Food Prices, Wages, and Welfare in Rural India

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6412
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Hanan G. Jacoby
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department
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Markets and Market Access, Economic Theory & Research, Labor Policies, Agribusiness, Emerging Markets

Food Prices, Wages, and Welfare in Rural India

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 54, Issue 1, pp. 159-176, 2016
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Nov 2015
Hanan G. Jacoby
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department
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Distributional Implications of Climate Change in India

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5623
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Hanan G. Jacoby, Mariano Rabassa and Emmanuel Skouas
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Climate Change Economics, Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases, Science of Climate Change, Rural Poverty Reduction, Regional Economic Development

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Incomplete Contracts and Investment: A Study of Land Tenancy in Pakistan

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3826
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Hanan G. Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Investment and Investment Climate, Municipal Housing and Land, Contract Law, Economic Theory & Research, Real Estate Development

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Toward Successful Development Policies: Insights from Research in Development Economics

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9133
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 31 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2020
Erhan Artuc, Robert Cull, Susmita Dasgupta, Roberto Fattal, Deon Filmer, Xavier Giné, Hanan G. Jacoby, Dean Jolliffe, Hiau Looi Kee, Leora Klapper, Aart Kraay, Norman Loayza, David J. McKenzie, Berk Ozler, Vijayendra Rao, Bob Rijkers, Sergio L. Schmukler, Michael Toman, Adam Wagstaff and Michael Woolcock
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Health Care Services Industry, International Trade and Trade Rules, Economic Assistance, Disability, Services & Transfers to Poor, Access of Poor to Social Services, Climate Change and Environment, Climate Change and Health, Science of Climate Change, Inequality

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Incentives, Supervision, and Sharecropper Productivity

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4125
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Hanan G. Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Contract Law, Economic Theory & Research, Investment and Investment Climate, Municipal Housing and Land, Urban Housing

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On Measuring the Benefits of Lower Transport Costs

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4484
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Hanan G. Jacoby and Bart Minten
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and Cornell University - Food and Nutrition Policy Program
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Transport Economics Policy & Planning, Rural Roads & Transport, Economic Theory & Research, Rural Transport

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Crossing Boundaries: Gender, Caste and Schooling in Rural Pakistan

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5710
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Hanan G. Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Primary Education, Education For All, Disability, Adolescent Health, Tertiary Education

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Monopoly Power and Distribution in Fragmented Markets: The Case of Groundwater

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Hanan G. Jacoby and Rinku Murgai
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Monsoon Babies: Rainfall Shocks and Child Nutrition in Nepal

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6395
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Sailesh Tiwari, Hanan G. Jacoby and Emmanuel Skoufias
World Bank, World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and World Bank
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Science of Climate Change, Environmental Economics & Policies, Global Environment Facility, Water Conservation, Youth and Governance

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Changing Wage Structure in India in the Post-Reform Era: 1993-2011

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7426
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Hanan G. Jacoby and Basab Dasgupta
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and World Bank
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Labor Markets, Economic Theory & Research, Labor Policies, Rural Poverty Reduction, Markets and Market Access

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Markets, Contracts, and Uncertainty in a Groundwater Economy

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7694
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 19 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2018
Xavier Giné and Hanan G. Jacoby
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department
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Hydrology, Water and Food Supply, Climate Change and Agriculture, International Trade and Trade Rules, Regulatory Regimes, Social Policy, Common Property Resource Development, Legal Products, Judicial System Reform, Legislation, Legal Reform, Microfinance

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Weather and Child Health in Rural Nigeria

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6214
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Mariano Rabassa, Emmanuel Skoufias and Hanan G. Jacoby
World Bank, World Bank and World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department
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Health Monitoring & Evaluation, Science of Climate Change, Environmental Economics & Policies, Disease Control & Prevention, Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases

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Decentralization and Redistribution: Irrigation Reform in Pakistan's Indus Basin

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8352
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Feb 2018
Hanan G. Jacoby, Ghazala Mansuri and Freeha Fatima
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank
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Is There an Intrahousehold 'Flypaper Effect'? Evidence from a School Feeding Programme

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Nov 2002
Hanan G. Jacoby
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department
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Governing the Commons?: Water and Power in Pakistan's Indus Basin

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8351
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 22 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2018
Hanan G. Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare: Evidence from Liberia

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8880
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Aug 2019
Alejandro de la Fuente, Hanan G. Jacoby and Kotchikpa Gabriel Lawin
World Bank - Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and Independent
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Sophisticated Policy with Naive Agents: Habit Formation and Piped Water in Vietnam

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9207
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 08 Apr 2020
Quy-Toan Do and Hanan G. Jacoby
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department
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Distributional Implications of Climate Change in Rural India: A General Equilibrium Approach

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 97, Issue 4, pp. 1135-1156, 2015
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Apr 2020
Hanan G. Jacoby, Mariano Rabassa and Emmanuel Skoufias
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank and World Bank
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Agriculture, global warming, hedonic regression, trade

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Testing Theories of Consumption Behavior Using Information on Aggregate Shocks: Income Seasonality and Rainfall in Rural India

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 80, Issue 1, pp. 1-14, 1998
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 Apr 2020
Hanan G. Jacoby and Emmanuel Skoufias
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and World Bank
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complete markets, consumption, India, liquidity constraints, permanent income, rational expectations, seasonality, D120, O120

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Is Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa Cost-Effective? Evidence from Madagascar

The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 461-485, 2007
Posted: 16 Jun 2008
Hanan G. Jacoby and Bart Minten
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department and Cornell University - Food and Nutrition Policy Program

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Weathering the Storm: The Impact of the East Asian Crisis on Farm Households in Indonesia and Thailand

World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 1-20, 2002
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Fabrizio Bresciani, Daniel O. Gilligan, Gershon Feder, Tongroj Onchan and Hanan G. Jacoby
University of Maryland, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), affiliation not provided to SSRN and World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department

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Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural China

Posted: 31 Jan 2003
Hanan G. Jacoby, Guo Li and Scott Rozelle
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank - Rural Development (EASRD) and University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

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Access to Markets and the Benefits of Rural Roads

Posted: 23 Jan 2001
Hanan G. Jacoby
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department

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Self-Selection and the Redistributive Impact of In-Kind Transfers: An Econometric Analysis

JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES, Vol. 32, No. 2, Spring 1997
Posted: 04 Jun 1997
Hanan G. Jacoby
World Bank - Agriculture and Rural Development Department

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