Journal articles

Selected. For a full list of articles, see my CV

When Life Gives You Lemons: Using Cross-Sectional Surveys to Identify Chronic Poverty in the Absence of Panel Data (with K. Bolch & L.F. Lopez-Calva), 2021. Review of Income and Wealth, DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12566

• Ungated, older version

Measuring Global Poverty Before and During the Pandemic: A Political Economy of Overoptimism (with A. Sumner and C. Hoy), 2021. Third World Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2021.1995712

• Also available as WIDER Working Paper 43, as WIDER Working Paper 77, and as UNDESA Working Paper

• Blog posts in WIDER Angle, Global Policy, and The Conversation

• Interview in The Guardian

• Media coverage (selected): The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Slate, and Reuters

• Input for Oxfam’s Dignity Not Destitution economic rescue plan

Within-Country Poverty Convergence: Evidence from Mexico (with L.F. Lopez-Calva & C. Rodriguez- Castelan), 2021. Empirical Economics, DOI: 10.1007/s00181-021-02109-0

• Also available as IZA Discussion Paper 13577 and as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9038

Living on the Edge: Vulnerability to Poverty and Public Transfers in Mexico (with A. de la Fuente & C. Rodriguez-Castelan), 2018. Oxford Development Studies, 46(1): 10-27

• Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7165 and as Background Paper for the 2014 World Development Report

A Long-Term Perspective on Inequality and Human Development in Latin America (with L.F. López- Calva & N. Lustig), 2015. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 16(3): 319-323

A Vulnerability Approach to the Definition of the Middle Class (with L.F. Lopez- Calva), 2014. Journal of Economic Inequality, 12(1): 23-47

• Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5902

• Blog posts in Americas Quarterly and WIDER Angle

• Media coverage (selected): El País, The Huffington Post, and The Economist Intelligence Unit

Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico (with N. Lustig & L.F. Lopez- Calva), 2013. World Development, 44: 129-141

• Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6248 and as Center for Global Development Working Paper 307

• Media coverage (selected): Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Página 12, and World Bank blog

A Household-Based Distribution-Sensitive Human Development Index: An Empirical Application to Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru (with L.F. Lopez- Calva), 2012. Social Indicators Research, 109(3): 395-411