Mark M. Pitt
Professor of Economics and
Population Studies and Training Center
Brown University

 

Department of Economics, Box B
64 Waterman Street
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island 02912

 
Office: 303 Mencoff Hall

 Email: Mark_Pitt@brown.edu

Phone:  401-863-2445

 

 

 

SELECTED PAPERS:

 

Pitt, Mark M., Mark R. Rosenzweig, and Nazmul Hassan. Short- and Long-Term Health Effects of Burning Biomass in the Home in Low-Income Countries ,Dec 2006.

 

Pitt, Mark M., Shahidur R. Khandker, and Jennifer Cartwright. Empowering Women with Micro-finance: Evidence from Bangladesh. Economic Development and Cultural Change, July 2006, 791-831.

 

Pitt, Mark M., Shahidur R. Khandker, Omar Haider Chowdhury, and Daniel Millimet. Credit Programs for the Poor and the Health Status of Children in Rural Bangladesh. International Economic Review, 44:1, February 2003, 87-118.

 

Pitt, Mark Pitt, Mark M. and Shahidur R. Khandker. Credit Programs for the Poor and Seasonality in Rural Bangladesh.  Journal of Development Studies, 39:2, Dec. 2002, 1-24.

 

Pitt, Mark M.  The Effect of Nonagricultural Self-Employment Credit on Contractual Relations and Employment in Agriculture: The Case of Microcredit Programs in Bangladesh , Bangladesh Development Studies, June-Sept 2000, 15-48.

 

Pitt, Mark M., S. Khandker, S-M. McKernan, and M. A. Latif. "Credit Programs for the Poor and Reproductive Behavior in Low Income Countries: Are the Reported Causal Relationships the Result of Heterogeneity Bias? " Demography, February 1999, 1-21.

 

Pitt, Mark M. and Shahidur Khandker. The Impact of Group-Based Credit on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does the Gender of Participants Matter? Journal of Political Economy, October 1998, 958-996.

 

Pitt, Mark M.  Estimating the Determinants of Child Health When Fertilty and Mortality are Selective . Journal of Human Resources, Winter 1997, 127-158.

 

Pitt, Mark M., Mark R. Rosenzweig, and Md. Nazmul Hassan. "Productivity, Health and Inequality in the Intra-household Distribution of Food in Low-Income Countries ," (with), American Economic Review, December 1990, 1139-1156.

 

Lee, Lung-Fei and Mark M. Pitt. "Microeconometric Demand Systems with Binding Non-Negativity Constraints: The Dual Approach, Econometrica: 54:5 (1986), 1237-1242.

 

Pitt, Mark M. "Equity, Externalities and Energy Subsidies: The Case of Kerosene in Indonesia ," Journal of Development Economics, 17 (1985), 201-217.

 

Pitt, Mark M. " Food Preferences and Nutrition in Rural Bangladesh ," The Review of Economics and Statistics, LXV, 1983, 105-114, Spanish translation in Desarollo Rural en Las Americas.

 

Pitt, Mark M. and Lung-Fei Lee. "The Measurement and Sources of Technical Inefficiency in the Indonesian Weaving Industry," Journal of Development Economics, 9 (1981), 43-64.

 

Pitt, Mark M. Smuggling and Price Disparity, Journal of International Economics, 11 (1981), 447-458.

 

Pitt, Mark M. and Wendy Sigle. "Seasonality, Weather Shocks and the Timing of Births and Child Mortality in Senegal", January 1998 .

 

"Reply to Jonathan Morduch's "Does Microfinance Really Help the Poor? New Evidence from Flagship Programs in Bangladesh", October 14, 1999. (Stata do file from appendix .)