Curriculum Vitae

Andrew D. Foster

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Department of Economics 123 S. Darlington Ave
University of Pennsylvania West Chester, PA 19382
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6297 Phone: (610) 431-3089
Phone: (215) 898-6777 E-mail: afoster@pop.upenn.edu
Fax: (215) 573-2057
WWW: http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~afoster/index.html

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Empirical Microeconomics; Labor; Economic Development; Household and Family Economics; Economic Demography; Health Economics

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GRANTS RECEIVED:

  1. NICHD, "Population Growth, Economic Change and Forest Degradation", 1995-1997.
  2. NIA, "The Determinants of Healthy Aging in Rural Bangladesh" (With Jane Menken, Omar Rahman and Paul Gertler), 1994-1999.
  3. NICHD, "The Demographic Effects of Agricultural Development" (With Mark Rosenzweig and Jere Behrman), 1993-1997.
  4. NSF, "Agricultural Development and Human Capital in Rural India" (With Mark Rosenzweig and Jere Behrman), 1994-1997.
  5. Demography Group. "Migration and Human Capital Investment in Rural Bangladesh". Summer 1993.
  6. University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation. "Agricultural Development and Demographic Change in India" (With Jere Behrman and Mark Rosenzweig) Summer 1992.
  7. NICHD, "Seasonality and Health in Low-Income Rural Areas", (With Mark Rosenzweig, Jere Behrman, and Howarth Bouis), 1992-1995.
  8. Demography Group. "Fertility and Related Outcomes in Africa", (With Jere Behrman), Summer 1990.
  9. University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation. "Observable Aspects of Unobserved Heterogeneity: An Empirical Analysis of Cohort Mortality and Price Fluctuations in Rural Bangladesh", Summer 1989
  10. Ford Foundation #880-0781. Data Analysis Workshop at ICDDR,B. (With Jane Menken), Spring 1987.

PUBLISHED PAPERS:

  1. "Technical Change and Human Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution", (with Mark Rosenzweig ), American Economic Review. (forthcoming)
  2. "Comparative Advantage, Information and the Allocation of Workers to Tasks: Evidence from an Agricultural Labor Market", (with Mark Rosenzweig), Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming)
  3. "Dynamic Savings Decisions in Agricultural Environments with Incomplete Markets", (with Jere Behrman and Mark Rosenzweig), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (forthcoming).
  4. "Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture", (with Mark Rosenzweig), Journal of Political Economy, 103 (6): 1176-1209, December 1995
  5. "The Dynamics of Agricultural Production and the Calorie-Income Relationship: Evidence from Pakistan" (with Jere Behrman and Mark Rosenzweig), Journal of Econometrics (forthcoming) .
  6. "Huber Correction for Two Stage Least Squared Estimation", Stata Technical Bulletin, January 1996 (with Mead Over and Dean Jolliffe).
  7. "Nutrition and Health Investment", American Economic Review, 1995 Proceedings, 85(2): 148-152, May 1995.
  8. "Prices, Credit Constraints, and Child Growth in Low-Income Rural Areas", Economic Journal, 105(430): 551-570, May 1995.
  9. "A Test for Moral Hazard in the Labor Market: Effort, Health and Calorie Consumption", Review of Economics and Statistics, 76(2): 213-227, May 1994 (with Mark Rosenzweig).
  10. "Poverty and Illness in Low-Income Countries", American Economic Review, 1994 Proceedings, 84(2): 216-220, May 1994.
  11. "Information, Learning, and Wage Rates in Rural Labor Markets", Journal of Human Resources, 28(4): 759-790, 1994 (with Mark Rosenzweig) Reprinted in T. Paul Schultz, editor Investment in Women's Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, pp138-170.
  12. "Information Flows and Discrimination in Labor Market in Low-Income Countries" World Bank Economic Review, Supplement pp. 173-203, 1993, (with Mark Rosenzweig).
  13. "Household Partition in Rural Bangladesh", Population Studies, 47(1): 97-114, March 1993.
  14. "Older Widow Mortality in Rural Bangladesh", Social Science and Medicine, 34(1): 89-96, January 1992 (with Omar Rahman and Jane Menken).
  15. "Are Cohort Rates Autocorrelated?" Demography, 28(4): 619-37, 1991.
  16. "Cohort Analysis and Demographic Translation: A Comparative Study of Recent Trends in Age Specific Fertility Rates From Europe and North America", Population Studies, 44: 287-315, 1990.
  17. "Sustained Effects of Famine on Infant and Child Mortality", Population Studies, 44: 145-154, 1990, (with A. Razzaque, N. Islam, and L. Wei).
  18. "Female Reproductive Development: A Hazard Model Analysis", Social Biology, 33(3-4):183-98, Fall/Winter 1986, (with A. Chowdhury, J. Menken, and J. Trussell).
  19. "Teenage Fertility in Developed Nations: 1971-1980." Family Planning Perspectives, 15(3):105-11, May/June 1983. International Family Planning Perspectives, 9(2): 45-50, June 1983, (with C.F. Westoff and G. Calot).
  20. "Le fecondite des adolescentes dans les pays developpes au cours del la decennie 1970." Contraception-fertilite-sexualite, 12(12):1343-52, December 1984. (with C.F. Westoff and G.Calot)

MONOGRAPHS:

  1. The Demographic Effects of Economic Reversals in Sub-saharan Africa, (with the National Academy of Science Working Group on the Demographic Effects of Economic Reversals), National Academy of Science Press 1993.

WORKING PAPERS, REPORTS, AND REVIEWS :

  1. "The Dynamics of Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Family Planning Experiment". Revise and resubmit American Economic Review, January 1996, (with Nikhil Roy).
  2. Household Division, Inequality and Rural Economic Growth , June 1996 (with Mark Rosenzweig).
  3. "Imperfect Commitment, Altruism, and the Family: Evidence from Transfer Behavior in Low-Income Rural Areas", October 1995 (with Mark Rosenzweig)
  4. "Financial Intermediation, Transfers and Commitment: Do Banks Crowd Out Private Insurance Arrangements in Low-Income Rural Areas?" April 1996, (with Mark Rosenzweig)
  5. Review of Population, Economic Development and the Environment, by K. Lindahl-Kiessling and H. Landberg (eds.), Journal of Development Economics, (forthcoming).
  6. "A Consistent Semiparametric Estimator of the Consumer Surplus Distribution", (with Jinyong Hahn).
  7. "Analysis of Household Behavior when Households Choose Their Members: Marriage-Market Selection and Human Capital Allocations in Rural Bangladesh", December 1995.
  8. Financial Intermediation, Transfers and Commitment: Do Banks Crowd Out Private Insurance Arrangements in Low-Income Rural Areas? April 1996 (with Mark Rosenzweig)
  9. "Equilibrating the Marriage Market in a Rapidly Growing Population: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh", April 1994, (with Nizam Khan).
  10. "Program Effects and the Allocation of Resources within the Household", April 1994.
  11. "The Effects of Economic Fluctuations on Human Capital, Marriage and Fertility in Sub-Saharn Africa", March 1993.
  12. "Fertility Decline in Africa: Assessment and Prospects", World Bank Technical Paper No. 125, 1990.
  13. Review of Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980 by R. Floud and K. Wachter and Nutrition and economic development in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy: An anthropometric history by J. Komlos, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 518: 217-19, November 1991.
  14. "Complementarity in Rural Credit Markets: The Composition of Household Debt in Rural India", March 1989.
  15. "Age at Menarche and its Influence on Fertility." Fertility Determinants: Research Notes, No. 10, Population Council, 5 pp., September 1986. (With A. Chowdhury, J. Menken, J. Trussell).
  16. "Unobserved Heterogeneity and Dependent Covariates: A State-Space Model of Infant Growth and Mortality", IIASA Working Paper 85-87, December 1985.

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