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Andrew D. Foster

Andrew D. Foster

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
41
Citations
12837
World Ranking
4894
National Ranking
2320

Overview

Andrew D. Foster is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences and medicine, including a focus on sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, general health professions, clinical psychology, and physiology.

The scientist's recent publications address a range of topics and have appeared in various notable venues. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Methods for generating and screening libraries of genetically encoded cyclic peptides in drug discovery, 2020, Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities, and Optimal Farm Size, 2021, Journal of Political Economy
  • Long-term exposure to indoor air pollution and risk of tuberculosis, 2020, Indoor Air
  • Thirty-five years later: Long-term effects of the Matlab maternal and child health/family planning program on older women's well-being, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Income Segregation: Up or Down, and for Whom?, 2020, Demography

Their main areas of research focus on several topics, including:

  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Migration and labor dynamics
  • Poverty, education, and child welfare
  • Migration, health, and trauma
  • Sinusitis and nasal conditions
  • Allergic rhinitis and sensitization
  • Agricultural risk and resilience

Andrew D. Foster frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Demography
  • Canadian Journal of Respiratory Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology

They have collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Murat G. Kïrdar
  • Joseph K. Han
  • Ali Tavassoli
  • Tania Barham
  • Brachel Champion

Best Publications

  • Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture

    Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Microeconomics of technology adoption

    Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Technical Change and Human-Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution

    Andrew D Foster;Mark R Rosenzweig

  • INSTITUTIONS AND BEHAVIOR: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON THE EFFECTS OF DEMOCRACY.

    Pedro Dal Bó;Andrew Foster;Louis Putterman

  • Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth

    Jere R. Behrman;Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenweig;Prem Vashishtha

  • IMPERFECT COMMITMENT, ALTRUISM, AND THE FAMILY: EVIDENCE FROM TRANSFER BEHAVIOR IN LOW-INCOME RURAL AREAS

    Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Economic Growth and the Rise of Forests

    Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Agricultural Productivity Growth, Rural Economic Diversity, and Economic Reforms: India, 1970–2000*

    Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • An empirical relationship between PM2.5 and aerosol optical depth in Delhi Metropolitan

    Naresh Kumar;Allen Chu;Andrew Foster

  • PRICES, CREDIT MARKETS AND CHILD GROWTH IN LOW-INCOME RURAL AREAS*

    Andrew D. Foster

  • A Test for Moral Hazard in the Labor Market: Contractual Arrangements, Effort, and Health

    Mark R. Rosenzweig;Andrew D. Foster

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

    Andrew D Foster;Mark R Rosenzweig

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

    Mark Rosenzweig;Mark Rosenzweig;Andrew Foster

  • Methods for generating and screening libraries of genetically encoded cyclic peptides in drug discovery

    Catrin Sohrabi;Andrew Foster;Ali Tavassoli

  • The dynamics of agricultural production and the calorie-income relationship: Evidence from Pakistan☆

    Jere R. Behrman;Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Household Division and Rural Economic Growth

    Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Information, Learning, and Wage Rates in Low-Income Rural Areas

    Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment

    Andrew Foster;Mark Rosenzweig

  • Sustained Effects of the 1974–5 Famine on Infant and Child Mortality in a Rural Area of Bangladesh

    Abdur Razzaque;Nurul Alam;Lokky Wai;Andrew Foster

  • Receiving Help at Home The Interplay of Human and Technological Assistance

    Susan M. Allen;Andrew Foster;Katherine Berg

  • Chapter 47 Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment

    Andrew D. Foster;Mark R. Rosenzweig

  • Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth

    Jere Behrman;Andrew Foster;Mark Rosenzweig;Prem Vahsishtha

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Logan
John R. Logan Brown University
Jane Menken
Jane Menken University of Colorado Boulder
Charles F. Westoff
Charles F. Westoff Princeton University
Wendy Wood
Wendy Wood University of Southern California
Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Samuel H. Preston
Samuel H. Preston University of Pennsylvania
Thomas M. Peters
Thomas M. Peters University of Iowa
Richard Perez
Richard Perez University at Albany, State University of New York
Irma T. Elo
Irma T. Elo University of Pennsylvania
Melissa A. Clark
Melissa A. Clark Brown University

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