Stephen Younger
Research Associate,Sr
2007
HENutrSci

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Current Activities

Current Professional Activities
FIELDS OF INTEREST:

Dr. Younger is currently a co-PI for the USAID-sponsored project, “Strategies and Analyses for Growth and Access (SAGA), a six-year, multi-million dollar project of research and technical assistance focused on understanding the economic, social, institutional and natural constraints that prevent Africa’s poor from prospering in the context of growth-oriented reforms.



Current Research Activities
Poverty measurement, especially multidimensional poverty comparisons and non-income measures of well-being and deprivation

Economic policy and poverty in Uganda.

Women's labor market activity, fertility, and poverty


Biography

Biographical Statement
Stephen D. Younger is Associate Director for Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1986. His main area of research is development economics and poverty analysis, working primarily in Africa, but also in Latin America. His most recent research falls under the broad themes of multidimensional poverty measurement and the link between macroeconomic policy and the welfare of the poor, and he is a leading analyst of the distributional consequences of public spending and taxation. Much of Dr. Younger’s research has been collaborative, and he counts co-authors in Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ghana, Madagascar, and Uganda. Most recently, Dr. Younger has advised research by poverty networks in Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. Before coming to Cornell University in 1990, he was an assistant professor of economics at Williams College, and has been a visiting professor at the Facultad Latinoamerica de Ciencias Sociales in Quito, Ecuador, and the Free University of Amsterdam. He has also worked as a technical consultant or advisor on numerous World Bank projects, as well as with the Levy Institute, the Ford Foundation, USAID-Madagascar, UNICEF, UNDP, and the African Development Bank.

Education
1986 Ph.D., Stanford University, Economics and Agricultural Economics
1981 Master of Arts, Stanford University, Economics
1979 Bachelor of Arts, Miami University, Interdisciplinary Studies



Administrative Responsibilities
Associate Director, Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program

Courses, Websites, Pubs

Related Websites

Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program: http://www.cfnpp.cornell.edu

Strategies and Analysis for Growth and Access (SAGA): http://www.saga.cornell.edu

Improved Policy Analysis for Economic Decision-Making(ILO): http://www.ilo.cornell.edu

Personal website: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/sdy1/



Publications
“Living Standards in Africa,” forthcoming, in Sudhir Anand, Paul Segal, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, editors, Debates in the Measurement of Global Inequality, Oxford University Press, 2008 (with David E. Sahn).

“Infant Mortality in Uganda: Determinants, Trends, and the Millennium Development Goals,” forthcoming, Journal of African Economies (with Sarah Ssewanyana).

“Using an Ordinal Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Analysis,” 2007, in Nanak Kakwani and Jacques Silber, editors, Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, pp. 244-261, Palgrave-MacMillan. (with Jean-Yves Duclos and David E. Sahn).

"Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons with Discrete Indicators of Well-being," 2007, in Stephen P. Jenkins and JohnMicklewright, eds., Poverty and Inequality Re-examined, Oxford University Press (with Jean-Yves Duclos and David E. Sahn).

"Transfer Payments, Mother’s Income, and Child Health in Ecuador," 2007, Journal of Development Studies  43(6): 1126-1143 (with Mauricio León).

"The Joint Demand for Health Care, Leisure, and Commodities: Implications for Health Care Finance and Access in Vietnam," 2007, Journal of Development Studies  43(8):1475-1500 (with Chad D. Meyerhoefer and David E. Sahn).

"Robust Multidimensional Spatial Poverty Comparisons in Ghana, Madagascar, and Uganda," 2006, World Bank Economic Review, 20(1):91-113 (with Jean-Yves Duclos and David E. Sahn) 

“Making Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons,” Economic Journal 116(514):943-968, October 2006 (with Jean-Yves Duclos and David E. Sahn). 

"Changes in Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Looking Beyond Income," 2006, Journal of Applied Economics 9(2):215-233 (with David Sahn). 

"Improvements in Children's Health: Does Inequality Matter?" 2005, Journal of Economic Inequality 3(2):125-143 (with David Sahn).

"Growth and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: Macroeconomic Adjustment and Beyond." 2004, Journal of African Economies 13(90001):i66-i95 (with David Sahn). 

"Review of The Least Developed Countries Report 2002: Escaping the Poverty Trap," 2003, Journal of African Economies 12(4):672-678.

“Estimating the Incidence of Indirect Taxes in Developing Countries,” 2003, in Francois Bourguignon and Luiz Pereira da Silva, editors, Techniques and Tools for Evaluating the Poverty Impact of Economic Policies, New York: Oxford University Press.

"Benefits on the Margin: Evaluating Alternatives to Traditional Benefit Incidence Analysis," 2003, World Bank Economic Review, 17(1):89-106

"Demand for Health Care in Tanzania: Public-Private Tradeoffs," 2003, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 65(2):241-260 (with David Sahn and Garance Genicot). 

"Decomposing World Health Inequality," 2003, Journal of Health Economics, 22(2):271-293 (with Menno Pradhan and David Sahn).

"Public Expenditures and Poverty in Peru," 2002, in Christian Morrisson, ed., Education and Health Expenditure, and Development: the Cases of Indonesia and Peru. Paris: OECD. 

"Expenditure Incidence in Africa: Microeconomic Evidence," 2000, Fiscal Studies, 21(3):329-347 (with David Sahn). 

"Dominance Testing of Transfers in Romania," 2000, Review of Income and Wealth, 46(3):309-327 (with David Sahn and Kenneth Simler). 

"Aid, Debt, and Growth in Ghana," 2000, in Ernest Aryeetey, ed., The Economy of Ghana, London: James Currey (with Jane Harrigan).

"The Relative Progressivity of Social Services in Ecuador," 1999, Public Finance Review, 27(3):310-352.

"Tax Incidence in Madagascar: An Analysis Using Household Data," 1999, World Development 13(2):303-31 (with David E. Sahn, Paul A.