2026 Menno Pradhan: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	35	2934	2658	84	78	107	6060

Overview

Menno Pradhan is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of economics, econometrics, finance, and social sciences, with an emphasis on relevant subfields such as economics and econometrics, finance, general health professions, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and safety research.

Their work addresses a range of topics including healthcare systems and reforms, global maternal and child health, global health care issues, poverty, education and child welfare, agricultural risk and resilience, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, and educational methods and media use.

Menno Pradhan has contributed to several recent papers, including:

The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 on low-income households in rural Kenya: An analysis using weekly financial household data, 2020, World Development
Schooling progress, learning reversal: Indonesia's learning profiles between 2000 and 2014, 2021, International Journal of Educational Development
Does geographic spending variation exacerbate healthcare benefit inequality? A benefit incidence analysis for Indonesia, 2021, Health Policy and Planning
Effects of performance-based capitation payment on the use of public primary health care services in Indonesia, 2023, Social Science & Medicine
The impact of i-PUSH on maternal and child health care utilization, health outcomes, and financial protection: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial based on financial and health diaries data, 2021, Trials

Menno Pradhan frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Wendy Janssens, Estelle Sidze, Richard de Groot, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, and Hermann Pythagore Pierre Donfouet.

Their research has been published in various venues, with multiple publications in AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, Health Policy and Planning, and The Journal of Development Studies, along with contributions to World Development and the International Journal of Educational Development.

In addition to articles, Menno Pradhan has contributed to book publications, including a title published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks: Scores, Camera, Action: Social Accountability and Teacher Incentives in Remote Areas (2021).

Best Publications

Measuring Poverty using Qualitative Perceptions of Consumption Adequacy

Menno Pradhan;Martin Ravallion

493
Citations
Decomposing World Health Inequality

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

318
Citations
Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase in Indonesia

Joppe Jaitze De Ree;Karthik Muralidharan;Menno Prasad Pradhan;F. Halsey Rogers

283
Citations
Social risk management options for medical care in Indonesia.

Menno Pradhan;Nicholas Prescott

280
Citations
Local Conflict in Indonesia: Measuring Incidence and Identifying patterns

Patrick Barron;Kai Kaiser;Menno Pradhan

258
Citations
Flexible Labour, Firm Performance and the Dutch Job Creation Miracle

Alfred Kleinknecht;Remco M. Oostendorp;Menno P. Pradhan;C.W.M. Naastepad

256
Citations
Poverty, education, and health in Indonesia : who benefits from public spending?

Peter Lanjouw;Menno Pradhan;Fadia Saadah;Haneen Sayed

253
Citations
Health insurance impacts on health and non-medical consumption in a developing country

Menno Pradhan;Adam Wagstaff

217
Citations
An impact evaluation of education, health, and water supply investments by the Bolivian social investment fund

John Newman;Menno Pradhan;Laura B. Rawlings;Geert Ridder

217
Citations
Formal and informal sector employment in urban areas of Bolivia

M.P. Pradhan;A.H.O. van Soest

205
Citations
The impact of the 1997-98 East Asian economic crisis on health and health care in Indonesia

Hugh Waters;Fadia Saadah;Menno Pradhan

201
Citations
Improving educational quality through enhancing community participation : results from a randomized field experiment in Indonesia

Menno Pradhan;Daniel Suryadarma;Amanda Beatty;Maisy Wong

191
Citations
Understanding Variations in Local Conflict: Evidence and Implications from Indonesia

Patrick Barron;Kai Kaiser;Menno Pradhan

181
Citations
The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana

James Berry;Dean Karlan;Menno Pradhan

167
Citations
Declining prices in the sequential Dutch flower auction of roses

Gerard J. Van Den Berg;Jan C. Van Ours;Menno P. Pradhan

164
Citations
The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 on low-income households in rural Kenya: An analysis using weekly financial household data

Wendy Janssens;Wendy Janssens;Menno Pradhan;Menno Pradhan;Richard de Groot;Estelle Sidze

142
Citations
The impact and targeting of social infrastructure investments : lessons from the Nicaraguan Social Fund

Menno Pradhan;Laura B. Rawlings

138
Citations
Measurements of Poverty in Indonesia: 1996, 1999, and Beyond

Menno Pradhan;Asep Suryahadi;Sudarno Sumarto;Lant Pritchett

123
Citations
Eating like which “Joneses?” an Iterative Solution to the Choice of a Poverty Line “Reference Group”

Menno Pradhan;Asep Suryahadi;Sudarno Sumarto;Lant Pritchett

102
Citations
Comparison of Perceived and Technical Healthcare Quality in Primary Health Facilities: Implications for a Sustainable National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana

Robert Kaba Alhassan;Stephen Opoku Duku;Wendy Janssens;Edward Nketiah-Amponsah

101
Citations
Health Insurance Impacts on Health and Nonmedical Consumption in a Developing Country

Adam Wagstaff;Menno Prasad Pradhan

11
Citations
Formal and Informal Sector Employment in Urban Areas of Bolivia

Menno Pradhan;Arthur van Soest

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Ravallion Georgetown University

Alfred Kleinknecht Delft University of Technology

Geert Ridder University of Southern California

Lant Pritchett London School of Economics and Political Science

David E. Sahn Cornell University

Peter Lanjouw Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Dean Karlan Northwestern University

Eddy van Doorslaer Erasmus University Rotterdam

Adam Wagstaff World Bank

Arthur van Soest Tilburg University

External Links

Personal website of Menno Pradhan Google Scholar page

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