James Foster
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- Masters Economics Stanford University
- Bachelors Economics Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Eric Foster is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the George Washington University, in the Elliott School of International Affairs, researching welfare economics and poverty measurement. He is known for developing the Alkire Foster Method, with University of Oxford professor and OPHI Director Sabina Alkire. He is a board member for the World Bank.
James Foster 's Published Works
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- A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures (1984) (5721)
- Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement (2011) (685)
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis (2015) (553)
- Transfer Sensitive Inequality Measures (1987) (364)
- SUBGROUP CONSISTENT POVERTY INDICES (1991) (347)
- Polarization and the decline of the middle class: Canada and the U.S. (2010) (336)
- Measuring health inequality using qualitative data. (2004) (327)
- Poverty orderings and welfare dominance (1988) (313)
- On Measuring Literacy (1998) (307)
- Absolute versus Relative Poverty. (1998) (286)
- Black-White Inequalities in Mortality and Life Expectancy, 1933–1999: Implications for Healthy People 2010 (2001) (255)
- Measuring the Distribution of Human Development: methodology and an application to Mexico (2003) (230)
- Path Independent Inequality Measures (2000) (221)
- A class of chronic poverty measures (2007) (221)
- The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures: 25 years later (2010) (201)
- Counting and Multidimensional Poverty (2008) (166)
- Inequality and poverty orderings (1988) (147)
- Designing the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (2010) (145)
- On measuring vulnerability to poverty (2010) (138)
- An axiomatic characterization of the Theil measure of income inequality (1983) (135)
- A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice (2013) (122)
- Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity: Progress and Policies (2015) (115)
- Lorenz Dominance and the Variance of Logarithms (1999) (110)
- Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association, and Redundancy (2013) (106)
- On Economic Inequality After a Quarter Century (2012) (98)
- A general class of additively decomposable inequality measures (1999) (90)
- Ethical Indices for the Measurement of Poverty (1984) (88)
- Where did identification go? (2011) (84)
- Inequality of Happiness in the U.S.: 1972–2010 (2013) (61)
- The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: Twenty-Five Years Later (2010) (56)
- Investing in Health: The Long-Term Impact of Head Start on Smoking (2004) (54)
- Involuntary Unemployment as a Principal-Agent Equilibrium (1984) (48)
- Designing the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) (2010) (44)
- Isolated and Proximate Illiteracy And Why these Concepts Matter in Measuring Literacy and Designing Education Programmes (2000) (44)
- A Report on Mexican Multidimensional Poverty Measurement (2010) (43)
- How Good is Growth (2000) (42)
- An Axiomatic Approach to the Measurement of Corruption: Theory and Applications (2012) (41)
- Rank Robustness of Composite Indices (2009) (40)
- External Capabilities (2008) (36)
- Chapter Twenty-Four - Freedom, Opportunity, and Well-Being (2011) (27)
- Normative measurement: Is theory relevant? (1994) (21)
- Multidimensional Poverty and its Discontents (2011) (21)
- Ranking investment projects (2003) (18)
- OPHI WORKING PAPER NO . 31 Polarization and the Decline of the Middle Class : Canada and the US (1992) (17)
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 1 – Introduction (2014) (17)
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 5 – the Alkire-Foster Counting Methodology (2015) (17)
- Inequality of Happiness in US: 1972-2008 (2011) (17)
- WHAT IS POVERTY AND WHO ARE THE POOR ? REDEFINITION FOR THE UNITED STATES IN THE 1990 ' St Absolute versus Relative Poverty (2007) (16)
- Overview of Methods for Multidimensional Poverty Assessment (2015) (14)
- The Alkire–Foster Counting Methodology (2015) (14)
- Notes on Effective Freedom (2010) (14)
- Distribution and Dynamics (2015) (13)
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 3 – Overview of Methods for Multidimensional Poverty Assessment (2015) (13)
- Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity (2015) (13)
- Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations (2019) (12)
- Complimentarily yours: Free examination copies and textbook prices (1996) (11)
- The Possibility of Democratic Pluralism (1978) (11)
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 2 – The Framework (2015) (10)
- An axiomatic approach to identification and measurement of multidimensional poverty (2009) (10)
- Learning Rational Expectations: Classical Conditions Ensure Uniqueness And Global Stability (1990) (10)
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 8 – Robustness Analysis and Statistical Inference (2015) (9)
- Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty (2015) (9)
- Inequality and welfare in market economies (1990) (8)
- Robustness Analysis and Statistical Inference (2015) (8)
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 6 – Normative Choices in Measurement Design (2015) (8)
- Poverty Indices and Decomposability (1990) (6)
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 10 – Some Regression Models for Af Measures (2015) (6)
- Adjusting neonatal mortality rates for birth weight. (1982) (5)
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 7 – Data and Analysis (2015) (5)
- The Role of Inequality in Poverty Measurement (2018) (4)
- A Unifi ed Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality (2013) (4)
- Statistics, the Law and Government Auditors' Sampling Procedures (1994) (4)
- Rank Robustness of Composite Indicators (2008) (3)
- Erratum to: Polarization and the decline of the middle class: Canada and the U.S. (2014) (3)
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 4 – Counting Approaches: Definitions, Origins, and Implementations (2015) (2)
- Ranking Investment Projects1 (2001) (2)
- Normative Choices in Measurement Design (2015) (2)
- Some Regression Models for AF Measures (2015) (1)
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 9 – Distribution and Dynamics (2015) (1)
- Warning! Some Misleading Statistical Sampling Formulas (1992) (1)
- The value-added of multidimensional poverty measures (2012) (1)
- New frontiers in poverty measurement (2012) (1)
- Comparing Utility Functions in Efficiency Terms: Comment (1980) (1)
- Changes in infant mortality and related rates by health service area: 1969-73 to 1974-77. (1981) (0)
- Ophi Working Freedom, Opportunity and Wellbeing Freedom, Opportunity and Wellbeing (2010) (0)
- Using natality data in health planning. (1980) (0)
- Income inequality and self-rated health in the United States: Does education or race explain the link? (2006) (0)
- Corporate Law and Securities Regulation (1972) (0)
- Erratum to: Polarization and the decline of the middle class: Canada and the U.S. (2011) (0)
- CHRONIC POVERTY MEASURES (2006) (0)
- Why Multidimensional Poverty (2014) (0)
- OPHI WORKING PAPER NO . 100 Dimensional and Distributional Contributions to Multidimensional Poverty (2016) (0)
- Income Standards, Inequality, and Poverty (2013) (0)
- Editors' Introduction (2005) (0)
- Personal Property Leasing in Florida: Moving 2A Uniform Treatment (1991) (0)
- OPHI WORKING PAPER NO . 88 Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis : Chapter 7 – Data and Analysis (2015) (0)
- SEVERAL RECENT STUDIES OF POVERTY have demonstrated the usefulness of breaking down (1984) (0)
- Chapter 3 POVERTY INDICES (2008) (0)
- Rank Robustness of Composite Indicators Page 1 Rank Robustness of Composite Indicators (2008) (0)
- Patient profile, National Reporting System for Family Planning Services: United States, 1978. (1981) (0)
- Frontiers of Poverty Measurement (2013) (0)
- OPHI W ORKING P APER N O . 52 Measuring Chronic Poverty (2012) (0)
- OPHI WORKING PAPER NO . 89 Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis : Chapter 8 – Robustness Analysis and Statistical Inference (2015) (0)
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