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David E. Sahn is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States, with a research focus largely positioned within the Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, Education, Urban Studies, and Soil Science.

The scholar's research interests are expressed through a range of main topics covering Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare; Migration and Labor Dynamics; School Choice and Performance; Urban and Rural Development Challenges; Agricultural Risk and Resilience; Microfinance and Financial Inclusion; and Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies.

David E. Sahn has contributed to multiple publication venues, with notably frequent appearances in the SSRN Electronic Journal, Education Economics, Demographic Research, and the Journal of African Economies.

  • Cognitive achievement production in Madagascar: a value-added model approach (2021), Education Economics
  • Childhood determinants of internal youth migration in Senegal (2020), Demographic Research
  • Starting Strong: Investigating the Importance of Early Academic Performance for Adult Human Capital (2023), Journal of African Economies
  • Heterogeneity in Migration Responses to Climate Shocks: Evidence from Madagascar (2021), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Posh spice or scary spice? The impacts of Madagascar's vanilla boom on household well-being (2022), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors contributing to their work include:

  • C. D. Boone
  • Heidi Kaila
  • Frédéric Aubery
  • Catalina Herrera Almanza

Thematically, David E. Sahn's publications address issues related to education outcomes, migration patterns influenced by environmental and economic changes, and household welfare in African contexts, notably Madagascar and Senegal.

Best Publications

  • Exploring Alternative Measures of Welfare in the Absence of Expenditure Data

    David E. Sahn;David Stifel

  • Poverty Comparisons Over Time and Across Countries in Africa

    David E. Sahn;David C. Stifel

  • Robust multidimensional poverty comparisons

    Jean-Yves Duclos;David E. Sahn;Stephen D. Younger

  • Schooling of girls and boys in a West African country: the effects of parental education, income, and household structure.

    Peter J. Glick;David E. Sahn

  • Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa

    David E. Sahn;David C. Stifel

  • The effects of human capital on wages, and the determinants of labor supply in a developing country☆

    David E. Sahn;Harold Alderman;Harold Alderman

  • Decomposing World Health Inequality

    Menno Pradhan;David E. Sahn;Stephen D. Younger

  • Structural Adjustment Reconsidered: Economic Policy and Poverty in Africa

    David E. Sahn;Paul Anthony Dorosh;Stephen D. Younger

  • The Demand for Health Care Services in Rural Tanzania

    David E. Sahn;Stephen D. Younger;Garance Genicot

  • Gender and Education Impacts on Employment and Earnings in West Africa: Evidence From Guinea

    Peter J. Glick;David E. Sahn

  • Progress Toward the Millennium Development Goals in Africa

    David E Sahn;David C Stifel

  • Seasonal variability in Third World agriculture: the consequences for food security.

    David E. Sahn

  • The demand for primary schooling in Madagascar: Price, quality, and the choice between public and private providers

    Peter Glick;David E. Sahn

  • Expenditure Incidence in Africa: Microeconomic Evidence

    David E. Sahn;Stephen D. Younger

  • On the determinants of nutrition in Mozambique: The importance of age-specific effects

    David E. Sahn;Harold Alderman

  • The Effect of the Value of Time on Food Consumption Patterns in Developing Countries: Evidence from Sri Lanka

    Benjamin H Senauer;David Sahn;Harold Alderman

  • Tax incidence in Madagascar : an analysis using household data

    Stephen D. Younger;David E. Sahn;Steven Haggblade;Paul A. Dorosh

  • The Effect of Price and Income Changes on Food-Energy Intake in Sri Lanka

    David E. Sahn

  • Exchange rate, fiscal and agricultural policies in Africa: Does adjustment hurt the poor?

    David E. Sahn;Paul Dorosh;Stephen Younger

  • Robust multidimensional spatial poverty comparisons in Ghana, Madagascar, and Uganda

    Jean-Yves Duclos;David Sahn;Stephen D. Younger

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Dorosh
Paul A. Dorosh International Food Policy Research Institute
Harold Alderman
Harold Alderman International Food Policy Research Institute
Menno Pradhan
Menno Pradhan Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christopher B. Barrett
Christopher B. Barrett Cornell University
Ravi Kanbur
Ravi Kanbur Cornell University
Peter F. Orazem
Peter F. Orazem Iowa State University
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Elisabeth Sadoulet University of California, Berkeley
Shantayanan Devarajan
Shantayanan Devarajan Georgetown University
Hans Gersbach
Hans Gersbach ETH Zurich
Prabhu Pingali
Prabhu Pingali Cornell University

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