Staff Biographical Page: Dean Jolliffe

Briefly

Dean Jolliffe joined ERS as an economist in September, 2000. His research at ERS has covered topics including rural poverty, child and adult obesity, and the effect of food assistance programs on household wellbeing. Dean specializes in the fields of applied microeconomics and econometrics, development, and public economics.

Background

Prior to joining ERS, Dean was an Assistant Professor at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education in Prague where he taught Public Economics (Ph.D. level) and Econometrics II (Ph.D. level). While in Prague he was also a Senior Researcher at the Economics Institute (EI) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Prior to that, Dean worked as a consultant at the World Bank on the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) and as a post-doctoral fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). At both of these institutions his research was primarily on poverty and the economics of education, and he was involved in the collection of household survey data from several different countries (El Salvador, Paraguay, Pakistan, Egypt, and Mozambique). At IFPRI, he trained government officials of the Poverty Alleviation Unit of the Government of Mozambique in the methodology of poverty analysis.

Education

Dean received a Ph.D. and an M.A. from Princeton University in Economics and a B.S. from the University of Minnesota.

Professional Affiliations

Dean holds the following appointments: Research Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Research Fellow with the William Davidson Institute (WDI)at the University of Michigan, Research Affiliate with the National Poverty Center (NPC)at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Dean is a referee for the following journals: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Economics, Demography, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economics of Transition, Empirical Economics, International Regional Science Review, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Population Economics, Pediatrics, Public Health Nutrition, Regional Studies, Review of Agricultural Economics, Review of Development Economics, Review of Regional Studies, World Bank Economic Review, and World Development.

Publications

ERS publications by this author

ERS Publications, Project Reports, Monographs

Jolliffe, D. "Adjusting for Living Costs Can Change Who is Considered Poor", USDA, ERS, Amber Waves, 4(5):10-15, November 2006.

Stewart, H., Blisard, N. and D. Jolliffe. Let's Eat Out: Americans Weigh Taste, Convenience, and Nutrition. Economic Information Bulletin No. 19, USDA, ERS, October 2006.

Jolliffe, D. The Cost of Living and the Geographic Distribution of Poverty. Economic Research Report No. 26, USDA, ERS, September 2006. *2007 Helios Award Winner in category of Research and Policy Contribution.

Jolliffe, Dean. "Persistent Poverty Is More Pervasive in Nonmetro Counties", USDA, ERS, Amber Waves, 2(4): 11, September 2004.

Jolliffe, Dean. Rural Poverty at a Glance, USDA, ERS, RDRR 100, 6 pp, July 2004.

Blisard, Noel, Stewart, Hayden and Jolliffe, Dean. Low Income Households' Expenditures on Fruits and Vegetables.USDA, ERS, AER 833, May 2004.

Blisard, Noel, Stewart, Hayden and Jolliffe, Dean. Low Income Households' Expenditures on Fruits and Vegetables.USDA, ERS, ERS Research Brief, May 2004.

Jolliffe, Dean. "Nonmetro Poverty: Assessing the Effects of the 1990s", USDA, ERS, Amber Waves, 1(4): 30-37, September 2003.

Jolliffe, Dean, Gundersen, Craig, Tiehen, Laura and Winicki, Josh. Food Stamp Benefits and Child Poverty in the 1990s. USDA, ERS, FANRR 33, September 2003.

Jolliffe, Dean. Comparisons of Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Poverty During the 1990s. USDA, ERS, RDRR 96, June 2003.

Jolliffe, Dean, Tiehen, Laura and Gundersen, Craig. "Food Stamp Benefits and Child Poverty in the 1990s". USDA, ERS, Amber Waves, 1(1): 7, February 2003.

Jolliffe, Dean. "Rural Poverty at Record Low in 2000". USDA, ERS, Rural America, January 2003, 17(4): 74-77.

Jolliffe, Dean. "Rural Poverty Rates stays under 15 Percent in 1999". USDA, ERS, Rural America, December 2002, 16(4): 39-41.

Winicki, Josh, Gundersen, Craig and Jolliffe, Dean. Issues in Food Assistance—How Do Food Assistance Programs Improve the Well-Being of Low-Income Families? USDA, ERS, FANRR26-9. October 2002.

Jolliffe, Dean. “Household Survey Data and Sample Design: A Case for Semi-parametric Estimation.” CERGE-EI Discussion Paper Series, Paper No. 24, Charles University, Prague, 1999.

G. Datt, K. Simler, G. Dava, J. Low, D. Jolliffe, C. Matusse, and E. Tostão. “Poverty Measurement: Concepts, Data and Methodology.” Understanding Poverty and Well-Being in Mozambique: The First National Assessment (1996-97). International Food Policy Research Institute monograph, Washington DC, 1998.

K. Simler, G. Datt, S. Handa, G. Dava, J. Low, D. Jolliffe, G. Mlay, C. Matusse, E. Tostão, J. Mutondo, F. Omar, and S. Mukherjee) “Poverty Estimates and Profile.” Understanding Poverty and Well-Being in Mozambique: The First National Assessment (1996-97). IFPRI monograph, Washington, DC, 1998.

Jolliffe, Dean. “Review of the Agricultural Activities Module from the Living Standards Measurement Study Survey.” Improving the Policy Relevance of the Living Standards Measurement Study Surveys, Research Paper Series, Paper No. 7. The World Bank. Washington, DC, 1995.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Bhargava, A., D. Jolliffe, and L. Howard. "Socioeconomic, Behavioural and Environmental Factors Predicted Body Weights and Household Food Insecurity Scores in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten." British Journal of Nutrition, 2008, 100(2): 438-444.

Campos, N. and D. Jolliffe. "Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)." World Bank Economic Review, 2007, 21(3): 509-526.

Jolliffe, D. Poverty, "Prices and Place: How Sensitive is the Spatial Distribution of Poverty to Cost of Living Adjustments?" Economic Inquiry, April 2006, 44(2): 296-310.

Jolliffe, D. "A Comparison of Parametric and Semi-parametric Estimates of Farm Profit-- Accounting for Sample Design in Household Surveys." Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 2006, 45(2): 107-125.

Stewart, H., N. Blisard, D. Jolliffe, and S. Bhuyan. "The Demand for Food away from Home: Do other Preferences Compete with our Desire to be Healthy?" Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2005, 30(3): 520-536.

Jolliffe, Dean and Campos, Nauro. “Does Market Liberalization Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986 to 1998.” Labour Economics, 2005.

Datt, Gaurav and Jolliffe, Dean. “Poverty in Egypt: Modeling and Policy Simulations.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005.

Jolliffe, Dean, Datt, Gaurav and Sharma, Manohar. “Robust Poverty and Inequality Measurement in Egypt: Correcting for Spatial-price Variation and Sample Design Effects.” Review of Development Economics, November 2004, 8(4): 557-572.

Jolliffe, Dean. “Continuous and Robust Measures of the Overweight Epidemic: 1971 2000.” Demography, May 2004, 41(2): 303-314.

Jolliffe, Dean. “The Impact of Education in Rural Ghana: Examining Household Labor Allocation and Returns On and Off the Farm.” Journal of Development Economics, 2004, 73(1): 287-314.

Jolliffe, Dean. “The Extent of Overweight Among U.S. Children and Adolescents from 1971-2000.” International Journal of Obesity, January 2004, 28(1): 4-9.

Campos, Nauro and Jolliffe, Dean. “After, Before and During: Returns to Education in Hungary (1986-1998).” Economic Systems, December 2003, 27(4): 377-390.

Stewart, Hayden, Blisard, Noel and Jolliffe, Dean. “Do Income Constraints Inhibit Expenditures on Fruits and Vegetables among Low-Income Households?” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, December 2003, 28(3): 465-480.

Jolliffe, Dean. “On the Relative Wellbeing of the Nonmetropolitan Poor: An Examination of Alternate Definitions of Poverty During the 1990s.” Southern Economic Journal, October 2003, 70(2): 295-311.

Jolliffe, Dean. “Estimating Sampling Variance from the Current Population Survey: A Synthetic Design Approach to Correcting Standard Errors.” Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2002/2003, 28(4): 239 261.

Jolliffe, Dean. “The Gender Wage Gap in Bulgaria: A Semiparametric Estimation of Discrimination.” Journal of Comparative Economics, June 2002, 30(2): 276-295.

Jolliffe, Dean. “Whose Schooling Matters in the Determination of Household Income: Evidence from a Developing Country.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, January 2002, 50(2): 287-312.

Datt, Gaurav, Jolliffe, Dean and Sharma, Manohar. “A Profile of Poverty in Egypt.” African Development Review, December 2001, 13(2): 202-237.

Jolliffe, Dean. “Measuring Absolute and Relative Poverty: The Sensitivity of Estimated Household Consumption to Survey Design.” Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2001, 27(1/2): 1-23.

Jolliffe, Dean. “Cognitive Skills, Schooling, and Income: Evidence from Ghana.” World Bank Economic Review, January 1998, 12(1): 81-104.

Book Chapters, Reviews and Bulletins

Jolliffe, Dean. Review of “Land and Schooling: Transferring Wealth across Generations,” by Quisumbing, A., Estudillo, J. and Otsuka, K., Agricultural Economics, 2005, 32(3):331-332.

Jolliffe, Dean, Krushelnytskyy, Bohdan and Semykina, Anastassia. “Censored Least Absolute Deviations Estimator: CLAD.” Stata Technical Bulletin, November 2000, STB-58.

Jolliffe, Dean. “The Impact of Cognitive Skills on Income from Farming.” in The Economics of School Quality Investments in Developing Countries: An Empirical Study of Ghana, Glewwe, P. (ed.), United Kingdom: Macmillan Press, 1999.

Jolliffe, Dean and Semykina, Anastassia. “Robust Standard Errors for the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Class of Poverty Indices: SEPOV.” Stata Technical Bulletin, September 1999, STB-51.

Jolliffe, Dean and Krushelnytskyy, Bohdan. “Bootstrap Standard Errors for Indices of Inequality: INEQERR.” Stata Technical Bulletin, September 1999, STB-51.

Over, Mead, Jolliffe, Dean and Foster, Andrew. “Huber correction for Two stage Least Squares Estimates.” Stata Technical Bulletin, January 1996, STB 29.