Mark M. Pitt
Professor of Population Studies and
Professor Emeritus of Economics
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
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SELECTED PAPERS:
Pitt, Mark M.,
Response to Roodman and Morduch’s “The Impact of Microcredit on the
Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence” March 2011
Stata do
and dta files used in this response are found here (zip file)
Pitt, Mark M., Mark R.
Rosenzweig, and Nazmul Hassan. Human
Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based
Economy, Feb 2011
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
2010.
Pitt, Mark M. and Nidhiya
Menon. Spatial
Decentralization and Program Evaluation: Theory and an Example
from Indonesia, Sep 2010.
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 .)