EMMANUEL SKOUFIAS Curriculum Vitae 2010

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1 Curriculum Vitae 2010 OFFICE ADDRESS: The World Bank (Mail Stop MC 4-415) 1818 H Street N.W. Washington D.C USA Tel: (202) Cell: (240) Fax: (202) eskoufias@worldbank.org HOME ADDRESS: 8400 Westmont Court. Bethesda MD USA Tel: (301) eskoufias@gmail.com PERSONAL INFORMATION: Date of Birth: February/26/1960 Citizenship: USA/Greece Married with two daughters. EDUCATION: Ph.D., Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, August Dissertation: Dynamics of Labor Demand and Supply of Rural Households: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis. Advisor: Professor Mark R. Rosenzweig. B.A., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, June RESEARCH AREAS: Labor and Demographic Economics, Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, Applied Econometrics, Program Evaluation. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 2007 Lead Economist, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM), Poverty Reduction Unit, The World Bank, Washington D.C. (since January 2007) Senior Economist, Latin American and Caribbean Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (LAC-PREM), Poverty and Gender Group, The World Bank, Washington D.C. (January 2004-December 2006) Senior Research Economist. Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank. Washington D.C. (August 2002-December 2003) Senior Research Fellow, Food, Consumption and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Washington D.C., (July 1998-August 2002) Associate Professor. Economics Institute and Associate Professor Adjoint at the Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder; and Research Associate. Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder (June 1992-June 1998) Assistant Professor. Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, (Jan May 1992) Researcher. The World Bank, Country Economics Department, Special Studies Division. Project: "A Comparative Study of the Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policies," (Jan Dec. 1987) Research Assistant. Department of Economics, University of Minnesota ( ) 1981 Teaching Associate. General College, University of Minnesota ( )

2 C.V. page 2 PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS: 2010 Food Quality, Calories, and Household Income (E. Skoufias, V. di Maro, T. González-Cossío, and S. Rodríguez Ramirez), December Applied Economics (forthcoming in 2010) Globalization and the Role of Public Transfers in Redistributing Income in Latin America and the Caribbean (E. Skoufias, K. Lindert, and J. Shapiro), World Development (forthcoming in 2010). Also published as WIDER Research Paper 2009/02, UNU-WIDER, January Social Networks among Indigenous Peoples in Mexico (E. Skoufias, T. Lunde, and H. A. Patrinos). Latin American Research Review, vol. 45, no. 2 ( ). Also published as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4949, June 2009, Washington D.C Income and Micronutrient Consumption in Rural Mexico, (E. Skoufias, V. di Maro, T. González-Cossío, and S. Rodríguez Ramirez), Agricultural Economics, Vol. 40, no. 6, November 2009, pp Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Current Poverty, (Skoufias E., and V. di Maro) Journal of Development Studies, vol. 44, no. 7 (August 2008), pp Also published as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3973, August 2006, Washington D.C Cyclical Variations in Participation and Employment in Urban Labor Markets: The Case of Colomia and Mexico, (E. Skoufias, Mauricio Santa Maria, Laura Ripani) Coyuntura Social, Number 37, December 2007, pp Fedesarrollo Bogota Colombia. Are the Welfare Losses from Imperfect Targeting Important? (Skoufias, E., and D. Coady), Economica, vol. 74, (November 2007), pp Also published as FCND Discussion Paper No. 125, IFPRI. Poverty Alleviation and Consumption Insurance: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico, Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 36, No. 4, August 2007, pp Mitigating Myths about Policy Effectiveness: Evaluation of Mexico s Anti-Poverty and Human Resource Investment Program, (Behrman, J. R. and E. Skoufias), chap 12 in Chronicle of a Myth Foretold: The Washington Consensus in Latin America, edited by D. S. Massey, M. Sanchez R., and J. R. Behrman, published as a special issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 606, No. 1, July 2006, pp Job Loss and Family Adjustments in Work and Schooling During the Mexican Peso Crisis, (Skoufias E., and S. W. Parker). Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 19, No. 1, February 2006, pp Consumption Insurance and Vulnerability to Poverty: A Synthesis of the Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia, (Skoufias, E. and A. Quisumbing). European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2005, pp Also published as FCND Discussion Paper #155, IFPRI, August 2003.

3 C.V. page Correlates and Determinants of Child Anthropometrics in Latin America: Background and Overview of the Symposium,. (Jere R. Behrman, and E. Skoufias) Economics and Human Biology Vol. 2, No. 3, December 2004, pp The Impact of PROGRESA on Food Consumption. (Hoddinott J., and E. Skoufias), Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 53, No. 1, October 2004, pp FCND Discussion Paper #150, IFPRI, May The Added Worker Effect during the Business Cycle: Evidence from Urban Mexico, (S. W. Parker and E. Skoufias), Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 11, No. 10, August , pp Consumption Smoothing During the Economic Transition in Bulgaria. Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 32, No.2, June 2004, pp On the Targeting and Redistributive Efficiencies of Alternative Transfer Instruments, (Coady D. and E. Skoufias), Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 50, No. 1, March 2004, pp The Structure of Wages during the Economic Transition in Romania, Economic Systems, (lead article), Vol. 27, No. 4, December 2003, pp Economic Crises and Natural Disasters: Coping Strategies and Policy Implications, World Development, Vol. 31, No. 7, July 2003, pp Is the Calorie-Income Elasticity Sensitive to Price Changes? Evidence from Indonesia, World Development, Vol. 31, No. 7, July 2003, pp Consumption Smoothing in Russia: Evidence from the RLMS, The Economics of Transition, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2003, pp A Cohort Analysis of Wages in Indonesia between 1986 and 1998 (Skoufias E., and A. Suryahadi), Applied Economics, Vol. 34, No. 13, September 2002, pp Targeting Performance of Three Large-Scale, Nutrition-Oriented Social Programs in Central America and Mexico. (1 of 11 co-authors) Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol.23, No. 2, pp Conditional Cash Transfers and their Impact on Child Work and Schooling: Evidence from the PROGRESA program in Mexico (Skoufias E., and S. W. Parker), Economia, Vol.2, No. 1, Fall 2001, pp Targeting the Poor in Mexico: An Evaluation of the PROGRESA Selection Mechanism, (Skoufias E., B. Davis, and S. dela Vega), World Development, Vol. 29, No. 10, October 2001, pp Changes in Regional Inequality and Social Welfare in Indonesia from 1996 to Journal of International Development, Vol. 13, No. 1, January 2001, pp Changes in Household Welfare, Poverty and Inequality During the Economic Crisis in

4 C.V. page 4 Indonesia: Evidence from a Longitudinal Household Survey," (Skoufias E., A. Suryahadi, and S. Sumarto). Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Vol.36, No. 2, August 2000, pp Parental Education and Child Nutrition in Indonesia. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Vol.35, No. 1, April 1999, pp Child Health during the Economic Transition in Romania. World Development, Vol. 26, No. 11, November 1998, pp Testing Theories of Consumption Behavior using Information on Aggregate Shocks: Income Seasonality and Rainfall in Rural India, (Jacoby H., and E. Skoufias), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, (lead article) Vol. 80, No. 1, February 1998, pp Received Honorable Mention Award for Outstanding Journal Article in the AJAE at the Annual meetings of the AAEA in Nashville, TN, August Risk, Financial Markets, and Human Capital in a Developing Country, (Jacoby H., and E. Skoufias), Review of Economic Studies, (lead article), Vol. 64, No. 3, July 1997, pp The Long-Run Demand for Skilled and Unskilled Labor in Colombian Manufacturing Plants, (Roberts M.J., and E. Skoufias), The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LXXIX, No. 2, May 1997, pp Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Supply: Micro Evidence from Rural India, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 51, December 1996, pp Household Resources, Transaction Costs and Adjustment through Land Tenancy, Land Economics, Vol. 71, No. 1, February 1995, pp Risk and Seasonality in an Empirical Model of the Farm Household, Journal of Economic Development, Vol. 19, No. 2, December 1994, pp Using Shadow Wages to Estimate Labor Supply of Agricultural Households, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 76, No. 2, May 1994, pp Market Wages, Family Composition and the Time Allocation of Children in Agricultural Households, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, January 1994, pp Labor Market Opportunities and Intrafamily Time Allocation in Rural Households in South Asia, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 40, April 1993, pp Seasonal Labor Utilization in Agriculture: Theory and Evidence from Agrarian Households in India, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 75, No. 1, February 1993, pp Land Tenancy and Rural Factor Market Imperfections Revisited, Journal of Economic Development, Vol. 16, No. 1, June 1991, pp

5 C.V. page 5 PUBLICATIONS IN BOOKS/ RESEARCH REPORTS: Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty, A World Bank Policy Report, World Bank, Washington D.C., (authors: Ariel Fiszbein, Norbert Schady (eds.) with Francisco Ferreira, Margaret Grosh, Pedro Olinto, and Emmanuel Skoufias). Behrman. J. R., and E. Skoufias (2005) The Economics of Conditional Cash Transfers in J. Hoddinott, J. Maluccio, M. Adato, eds., Conditional Cash Transfers Programs in Latin America: A Synthesis of Their Impacts on Education, Health and Nutrition, IFPRI, Washington, DC. Skoufias, E. (2005) PROGRESA and its Impacts on the Welfare of Rural Households in Mexico, International Food Policy Research Institute Research Report No. 139, IFPRI, Washington D.C. also available in Spanish through the IFPRI website Skoufias, E., and B. McClafferty (2003) Is PROGRESA Working? A Summary of the Results of an Evaluation by IFPRI chapter 29 in Agnes R. Quisumbing, ed., Household Decisions, Gender, and Development: A Synthesis of Recent Research, IFPRI, More detailed version in FCND Discussion Paper No. 118, IFPRI, July PAPERS UNDER REVIEW AND/OR REVISION FOR PUBLICATION: Crises, Food Prices, and the Income Elasticity of the Demand for Nutrients: Some Estimates from Indonesia, February Journal of Development Economics (revise and resubmit). An Evaluation of the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA (Buddelmeyer H., and E. Skoufias), Journal of Business Economics & Statistics (revise and resubmit). IZA Discussion Paper No. 827, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany, July World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3386, September 2004, Washington D.C. The Sources of Welfare Disparities Between and Within Regions of Brazil: Evidence from the POF, (Skoufias, E., and R. Katayama), December Journal of Economic Geography (revise and resubmit). Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4803, December 2008, Washington D.C. Measuring the Quality of Education and Health Surveys: The Use of Perception Data from Indonesia, (B. Dasgupta, A. Narayan, and E. Skoufias), Journal of Development Studies (revise and resubmit). Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5033, August 2009, Washington D.C. WORK IN PROGRESS: Too Little, Too Late: Impacts of Rainfall Shocks in Rural Indonesia, (Skoufias E., B. Essama Nsah, and R. Katayama), unpublished manuscript, January 2010, PREM Poverty Unit, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

6 C.V. page 6 Electoral Accountability, Fiscal Decentralization, and Service Delivery in Indonesia (Skoufias E., Ambar Narayan, Kai Kaiser, and Basab Dasgupta), unpublished manuscript, January 2010, PREM Poverty Unit, The World Bank, Washington D.C. On the Distributional Implications of Climate Change: A Methodological Framework and Application to Rural India (H. Jacoby, M. Rabassa, E. Skoufias), unpublished manuscript, October 2009, PREM Poverty Unit, The World Bank, Washington D.C. The Impacts of Micro-Credit on Urban Micro-Enterprises in the North East of Brazil, (E. Skoufias, P. Leite, F. Haimovich), unpublished manuscript, December 2008, PREM Poverty Unit, The World Bank, Washington D.C. Local but Unequal? How Educational Decentralization Stratifies Schools, (J. Shapiro, and E. Skoufias), unpublished manuscript, November WORKING PAPERS & OTHER UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS: The Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Transfers on Consumption and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from Rural Mexico, (E. Skoufias, M. Unar, and T. González-Cossío), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4778, November 2008, Washington D.C. (Dis) Satisfied with Services? The Information Content of Perception-Based Surveys (S. Amin, B. Dasgupta, and E. Skoufias), unpublished manuscript, August 2008, PREM Poverty Unit, The World Bank, Washington D.C. Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: Economic Opportunities and Social Networks (H. A. Patrinos, E. Skoufias, and T. Lunde), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4227, May 2007, Washington D.C. Should Transfers Target Households? Evidence from a Cash Transfer in Honduras, (P. Olinto, J. Shapiro, and E. Skoufias), chapter 5 in World Bank Report No HN. Honduras Poverty Assessment: Attaining Povert Reduction, Volume II: Background Papers (June 30, 2006). Evaluating Mexico s Quality Schools Program: The Pitfalls of Using Nonexperimental Data (E. Skoufias and J. Shapiro), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4036, October 2006, Washington D.C. Guyana: A Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Changes in the Sugar Regime. Report prepared for the Caribbean Country Management Unit, PREM, of the Latin American and Caribbean Region of the World Bank, June Redistributing Income to the Poor and the Rich: Public Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean (with Kathy Lindert, and Joseph S. Shapiro). World Bank Social Safety Net Primer Series, Social Protection Discussion Paper, no. 0605, World Bank, August

7 C.V. page 7 On The Determinants of Household Vulnerability in Rural and Urban Mexico. Background paper for the report Income Generation and Social Protection for the Poor of the Colombia and Mexico Country Management Unit, PREM, Latin American and Caribbean Region, World Bank, August Cyclical Variations in Participation and Employment in the Urban Labor Markets in Mexico and Brazil Background paper for the 2004 Economic and Social Progress Report (IPES) Good Jobs Wanted: Labor Markets in Latin America of the Inter-American Development Bank. Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Vulnerability: The Case of Indonesia. Background report prepared for the East Asia and the Pacific Region, World Bank. July Financial Constraints on Higher Education: Evidence from Mexico, (Jacoby, H., and E. Skoufias). Draft. June Background report for the 2003 World Bank Latin American and Caribbean Study Closing the Gap in Education and Technology. Labor Market Shocks and Their Impacts on Work and Schooling: Evidence from Urban Mexico, (Skoufias E., and S. W. Parker), FCND Discussion Paper #129, IFPRI, March Measuring Household Vulnerability to Risk: Estimates from Russia, June Paper prepared for the Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Project of the Social Protection Department of the World Bank. Seasonality in Household Consumption in Bulgaria. Background paper prepared for the Bulgaria Poverty Assessment Study of the World Bank (Central and Southern Europe Departments, Human Resources Sector Operations Division); October A Note on the 'Reliability' of ICRISAT Household Expenditure Data, (Jacoby, H., and E. Skoufias). Unpublished manuscript, The Economics Institute, Boulder, CO; October An Analysis of Social Transfers and the Safety Net System in Bulgaria. Research reports prepared for the Bulgaria Poverty Assessment Study of the World Bank (Central and Southern Europe Departments, Human Resources Sector Operations Division), February 1996 and June The Labor Market and the Poor in Romania. Research report prepared for the Romania Poverty Assessment Study of the World Bank (Central and Southern Europe Departments, Human Resources Sector Operations Division); December Household Responses to Seasonal Income Fluctuations: Markets and Families in an Agrarian Economy, with Hanan Jacoby. Research report prepared for the World Bank (Policy Research Department, Poverty and Human Resources Division); March The Labor Market in Lesotho. Background paper prepared for the Lesotho Poverty Assessment Study of the World Bank (Southern Africa Department, Population and Human Resources Division); August Plant Characteristics and the Demand for Skilled and Unskilled Labor in the Colombian Manufacturing Sector, with Mark J. Roberts. Research report prepared for the World Bank (Country Economics Department, Trade Policy Division); January 1991.

8 C.V. page 8 Evaluating Training Programs under Self-Selection: The Case of Peru. Research report prepared for the World Bank (Human Resources Division, Technical Department, Latin America and Caribbean Region); September RESEARCH GRANTS: The National Council of Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) Risk-Sharing and Self- Insurance in Transitional Economies: An Examination of the Role of Markets and Families in Russia and Bulgaria Amount $20,000. TEACHING EXPERIENCE (student evaluations available upon request): Graduate Level: Ph.D.-level courses in Labor Economics, Economic Demography and Development Economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at Penn State University. M.A.-level courses in Microeconomic Theory at the Economics Institute. Undergraduate Level: Principles of Macroeconomics (classes of students) at Penn State ( ); Principles and Intermediate level Macro and Micro at the Economics Institute (1992-present) and at the Ministry of Finance Training Program held in Jakarta, Indonesia (1993, 1995, and 1997). OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Referee for: Agricultural Economics, American Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Demography, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economics and Human Biology, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Food Policy, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Energy and Development, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, Southern Economic Journal, World Bank Economic Review, World Development. Member of Ph.D. Dissertation Committees: Department of Economics, Free University, Amsterdam: Robert Sparrow (Ph.D., 2006) Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder: Henry Lumbantoruan (Ph.D. 1996), Christopher Grewe (Ph.D. 1998), James Lynch (Ph.D. 1998). Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University: Supervised numerous Master s theses/essays. Member of: American Economic Association (AEA) Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Consultant for: The World Bank: The World Bank: Stationed in ICRISAT, India. Project: Agricultural Investment, Infrastructure and Rural Financial Markets. Winter 1984.

9 C.V. page 9 LANGUAGES: English (fluent), Greek (native), Spanish (advanced intermediate level), French (beginning), Bahasa Indonesia (beginning). REFERENCES: (available upon request)