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Hanan G. Jacoby

Hanan G. Jacoby

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Economics and Finance

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34
Citations
10021
World Ranking
3011
National Ranking
1659

Overview

Hanan G. Jacoby is affiliated with the World Bank in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of engineering and social sciences. Their work spans various subfields, including ocean engineering, economics and econometrics, soil science, sociology and political science, and political science and international relations.

The main topics explored in their research include water resources management and optimization, irrigation practices and water management, water-energy-food nexus studies, agricultural risk and resilience, fiscal policy and economic growth, international development and aid, and economic theories and models.

Recent published papers by Hanan G. Jacoby include:

  • Efficient irrigation and water conservation: Evidence from South India, 2023, Journal of Development Economics
  • Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare: Evidence from Liberia, 2020, Journal of African Economies
  • Decentralizing corruption: Irrigation reform in Pakistan, 2021, Journal of Public Economics
  • Enforcement for sale: Lobbying for water in Pakistan's Indus Basin, 2020, Journal of Public Economics
  • Contracting under uncertainty: Groundwater in South India, 2020, Quantitative Economics

Frequent co-authors working with Jacoby include:

  • Quy-Toan Do
  • Igor Asanov
  • Guido Buenstorf
  • Xavier Giné
  • Ram Fishman

Their work is frequently published in the following venues:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Journal of Public Economics
  • Journal of Development Economics
  • Journal of African Economies
  • Quantitative Economics

Hanan G. Jacoby has also contributed to book publications with the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, including titles such as "Toward Successful Development Policies: Insights from Research in Development Economics" (2020), "Efficient Irrigation and Water Conservation: Evidence from South India" (2021), "Sophisticated Policy with Naive Agents: Habit Formation and Piped Water in Vietnam" (2020), and "Over-Drilling: Local Externalities and the Social Cost of Electricity Subsidies for Groundwater Pumping" (2023).

Best Publications

  • Risk, Financial Markets, and Human Capital in a Developing Country

    Hanan G. Jacoby;Emmanuel Skoufias

  • EARLY CHILDHOOD NUTRITION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS

    Paul Glewwe;Paul Glewwe;Hanan G Jacoby;Elizabeth M King

  • Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural China

    Hanan G. Jacoby;Guo Li;Scott D. Rozelle

  • Access to Markets and the Benefits of Rural Roads

    Hanan G. Jacoby

  • Shadow Wages and Peasant Family Labour Supply: An Econometric Application to the Peruvian Sierra

    Hanan G. Jacoby

  • Student achievement and schooling choice in low-income countries: evidence from Ghana

    Paul Glewwe;Hanan Jacoby

  • Borrowing Constraints and Progress Through School: Evidence from Peru

    Hanan G. Jacoby

  • An economic analysis of delayed primary school enrollment in a low income country: the role of early childhood nutrition

    Paul Glewwe;Hanan G. Jacoby

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

    Hanan G. Jacoby;Bart Minten

  • IS THERE AN INTRAHOUSEHOLD ‘FLYPAPER EFFECT’? EVIDENCE FROM A SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME

    Hanan G. Jacoby

  • Economic Growth and the Demand for Education: Is there a Wealth Effect?

    Paul W Glewwe;Hanan G. Jacoby

  • The Economics of Polygyny in Sub-Saharan Africa: Female Productivity and the Demand for Wives in Côte d'Ivoire

    Hanan G. Jacoby

  • On measuring the benefits of lower transport costs

    Hanan G. Jacoby;Bart Minten

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

    Hanan G. Jacoby;Hanan G. Jacoby;Emmanuel Skoufias

  • Productivity of men and women and the sexual division of labor in peasant agriculture of the Peruvian Sierra

    Hanan G. Jacoby

  • Food Prices, Wages, and Welfare in Rural India

    Hanan G. Jacoby

  • An Eclectic Approach to Estimating the Determinants of Achievement in Jamaican Primary Education

    Paul Glewwe;Margaret Grosh;Hanan Jacoby;Marlaine Lockheed

  • Weather and child health in rural Nigeria

    Mariano Rabassa;Emmanuel Skoufias;Hanan G. Jacoby

  • Watta satta : bride exchange and women's welfare in rural Pakistan

    Hanan G. Jacoby;Ghazala Mansuri

  • Monsoon Babies: Rainfall Shocks and Child Nutrition in Nepal

    Sailesh Tiwari;Hanan G. Jacoby;Emmanuel Skoufias

  • Is Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa Cost-Effective?

    Hanan G. Jacoby;Bart Minten

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Glewwe
Paul Glewwe University of Minnesota
Bart Minten
Bart Minten International Food Policy Research Institute
Xavier Giné
Xavier Giné World Bank
Dean Jolliffe
Dean Jolliffe World Bank
Gershon Feder
Gershon Feder International Food Policy Research Institute
David McKenzie
David McKenzie World Bank
Deon Filmer
Deon Filmer World Bank
Scott Rozelle
Scott Rozelle Stanford University
Vijayendra Rao
Vijayendra Rao World Bank

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