My work on risk sharing and sovereign debt have similarly emphasized enforcement issues. Recent work on markets includes several papers on grain traders in Madagascar and one joint paper on contract flexibility and conflict resolution in African manufacturing. Regarding intrahousehold allocation, I have written several papers with Agnes Quisumbing. Two of these examine labor allocation within rural households in Pakistan. Two other papers investigate marriage markets and intrahousehold asset ownerships in rural Ethiopia.
More papers are on the way.
Regarding spatial issues, I have written two papers on Nepal with Forhad Shilpi. The first paper examines how households interact with the market as a function of their distance from cities. The second paper investigates the relationship between cities and specialization using detailed labor survey data. I also have a paper with Klaus Desmet on the changing patterns of employment among US counties. Earlier in my career I have written papers on the behavior of individual households faced with imperfect or missing markets and on lobbying for trade protection and agricultural technology.