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Dean Jolliffe

Dean Jolliffe

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Economics and Finance

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41
Citations
6665
World Ranking
2198
National Ranking
1258

Overview

Dean Jolliffe is affiliated with the World Bank in the United States. Their research contributions primarily focus on topics related to income, poverty, and inequality, with significant work in fiscal policy and economic growth, sustainable development and environmental policy, poverty, education, and child welfare, international development and aid, economic theories and models, as well as economic growth and productivity.

The main fields of study for their research include social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance. Within these broad areas, their subfields cover economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, management, monitoring, policy and law, safety research, and development.

Among their recent papers are several notable works:

  • Identifying the poor - Accounting for household economies of scale in global poverty estimates, 2024, World Development
  • What Makes Public Sector Data Valuable for Development?, 2023, The World Bank Research Observer
  • Disparities in Assessments of Living Standards Using National Accounts and Household Surveys, 2022, Review of Income and Wealth
  • Why Is Growth in Developing Countries So Hard to Measure?, 2021, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Land Fragmentation and Food Insecurity in Ethiopia, 2020, American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Jolliffe's frequent collaborators include Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, R. Andrés Castañeda Aguilar, Nishant Yonzan, and Carolina Díaz-Bonilla.

Their work is regularly published in a range of specialized venues, with multiple publications appearing in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, and SSRN Electronic Journal. Other outlets include The Journal of Economic Perspectives and World Development.

Jolliffe has contributed extensively to book publications, primarily with the World Bank eBooks. Selected book works include:

  • Toward Successful Development Policies: Insights from Research in Development Economics (2020)
  • September 2023 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP): What's New (2023)
  • April 2022 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) (2022)
  • Mind the Gap: Disparities in Assessments of Living Standards using National Accounts and Household Surveys (2021)
  • Under what Conditions are Data Valuable for Development? (2021)
  • March 2020 PovcalNet Update (2020)
  • September 2020 PovcalNet Update (2020)
  • Identifying the Poor - Accounting for Household Economies of Scale in Global Poverty Estimates (2022)

Additional book contributions have been published by the Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks, including works on welfare, poverty, inequality measurement, digital payments in the context of COVID-19, and recent updates to the Poverty and Inequality Platform.

Best Publications

  • A global count of the extreme poor in 2012: data issues, methodology and initial results

    Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Shaohua Chen;Andrew L. Dabalen;Yuri M. Dikhanov

  • A global count of the extreme poor in 2012: data issues, methodology and initial results

    Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Shaohua Chen;Andrew L. Dabalen;Yuri M. Dikhanov

  • Identifying the Effects of SNAP (Food Stamps) on Child Health Outcomes When Participation Is Endogenous and Misreported

    Brent Kreider;John V. Pepper;Craig Gundersen;Dean Jolliffe

  • Estimating international poverty lines from comparable national thresholds

    Dean Mitchell Jolliffe;Dean Mitchell Jolliffe;Espen Beer Prydz

  • Determinants of Poverty in Egypt

    Gaurav Datt;Dean Jolliffe

  • A Profile of Poverty in Egypt

    Gaurav Datt;Dean Jolliffe;Manohar Sharma

  • Land productivity and plot size: Is measurement error driving the inverse relationship?

    Sam Desiere;Dean Mitchell Jolliffe

  • The impact of education in rural Ghana: examining household labor allocation and returns on and off the farm

    Dean Jolliffe

  • From tragedy to renaissance: improving agricultural data for better policies

    Calogero Carletto;Dean Jolliffe;Raka Banerjee

  • From tragedy to renaissance : improving agricultural data for better policies

    Calogero Carletto;Dean Jolliffe;Raka Banerjee

  • LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS' EXPENDITURES ON FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

    Noel Blisard;Hayden Stewart;Dean Jolliffe

  • A measured approach to ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity : concepts, data, and the twin goals

    Shaohua Chen;Dean Mitchell Jolliffe;Aart C. Kraay;Peter F. Lanjouw

  • Skills, schooling, and household income in Ghana

    Dean Jolliffe

  • Whose Education Matters in the Determination of Household Income? Evidence from a Developing Country*

    Dean Jolliffe

  • Socio-economic, behavioural and environmental factors predicted body weights and household food insecurity scores in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten

    Alok Bhargava;Dean Jolliffe;Larry L. Howard

  • Let's Eat Out: Americans Weigh Taste, Convenience, and Nutrition

    Hayden Stewart;Noel Blisard;Dean Jolliffe

  • Let's Eat Out: Americans Weigh Taste, Convenience, and Nutrition

    Hayden Stewart;Noel Blisard;Dean Jolliffe

  • Does Market Liberalisation Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986—1998

    Dean Jolliffe;Nauro F. Campos

  • Rising food prices and coping strategies : household-level evidence from Afghanistan

    Anna D'Souza;Dean Mitchell Jolliffe

  • DETERMINANTS OF POVERTY IN EGYPT: 1997

    Gaurav Datt;Dean Jolliffe

  • Overweight and poor? On the relationship between income and the body mass index

    Dean Jolliffe

  • Alleviating Poverty in the United States: The Critical Role of SNAP Benefits

    Laura Tiehen;Dean Jolliffe;Craig Gundersen

  • Food Counts - Measuring Food Consumption and Expenditures in Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys

    Alberto Zezza;Calogero Carletto;John L. Fiedler;Pietro Gennari

  • Whose education matters in the determination of household income

    Dean Jolliffe

Frequent Co-Authors

Nauro F. Campos
Nauro F. Campos University College London
Craig Gundersen
Craig Gundersen Baylor University
Gaurav Datt
Gaurav Datt Monash University
Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion Georgetown University
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Francisco H. G. Ferreira London School of Economics and Political Science
Aart Kraay
Aart Kraay World Bank
Vijayendra Rao
Vijayendra Rao World Bank

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