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Steven A. Block

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First Name:Steven
Middle Name:A.
Last Name:Block
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RePEc Short-ID:pbl40
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https://fletcher.tufts.edu/people/steven-block
Fletcher School, Tufts University 160 Packard Ave. Medford, MA 02155 USA
Terminal Degree:1993 Department of Economics; Harvard University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts (United States)
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/
RePEc:edi:fstufus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Block, Steven & Ecker, Olivier & Headey, Derek D. & Comstock, Andrew R., 2023. "Accounting for dietary deprivations in rural Africa: Poor households, poor farms or poor food environments?," IFPRI discussion papers 2194, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
  2. William A. Masters & Amelia B. Finaret & Steven A. Block, 2022. "The economics of malnutrition: Dietary transition and food system transformation," Papers 2202.02579, arXiv.org.
  3. Alemu, Robel & Block, Steven A. & Headey, Derek & Bai, Yan & Masters, William A., 2018. "Why are nutritious foods so expensive? Economic development and the cost of nutritious diets," 2019 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting, January 4-6, 2019, Atlanta, Georgia 281163, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  4. Mulmi, Prajula & Masters, William A. & Block, Steven A. & Webb, Patrick, 2017. "Farm production, child dietary intake and household wealth: Results from a nationally-representative survey in Nepal," 2017 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, Chicago, Illinois 259163, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  5. Block, Steven & Masters, William & Mulmi, Prajula & Shively, Gerald, 2016. "Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 234406, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  6. Jenny Aker, Steven Block, Vijaya Ramachandran, and Peter Timmer, 2011. "West African Experience with the World Rice Crisis, 2007-2008- Working Paper 242," Working Papers 242, Center for Global Development.
  7. Block, Steven A. & Masters, William A. & Bhagowalia, Priya, 2010. "Child Undernutrition, Household Poverty and National Income in Developing Countries: Quantile Regression Results," 2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado 61323, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  8. Steven Block, 2010. "The Decline and Rise of Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1961," NBER Working Papers 16481, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  9. Bates, Robert H. & Block, Steven A., 2009. "Political Economy of Agricultural Trade Interventions in Africa," Agricultural Distortions Working Paper Series 50302, World Bank.
  10. Patrick Webb & Steven Block, 2003. "Nutrition Knowledge and Parental Schooling as Inputs to Child Nutrition in the Long and Short Run," Working Papers in Food Policy and Nutrition 21, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.
  11. Steven A. Block & Burkhard N. Schrage & Paul M. Vaaler, 2003. "DEMOCRACY???S SPREAD: Elections and Sovereign Debt in Developing Countries," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series 2003-575, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.
  12. Steven Block, 2003. "Nutrition Knowledge, Household Coping, and the Demand for Micronutrient-Rich Foods," Working Papers in Food Policy and Nutrition 20, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.
  13. Steven Block & Burkhard N. Schrage & Paul M. Vaaler, 2003. "Democratization???s Risk Premium: Partisan and Opportunistic Political Business Cycle Effects on Sovereign Ratings in Developing Countries," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series 546, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.
  14. Steven A. Block, 2002. "Nutrition Knowledge Versus Schooling in the Demand for Child Micronutrient Status," CID Working Papers 93, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
  15. Steven A. Block, 2002. "Political Conditions and Currency Crises: Empirical Regularities in Emerging Markets," CID Working Papers 79A, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
  16. Steven A. Block & Lynnda Keiss & Patrick Webb & S. Kosen & Regina Moench-Pfanner & Martin W. Bloem & C. Peter Timmer, 2002. "Did Indonesia's Crises of 1997/98 Affect Child Nutrition? A Cohort Decomposition Analysis of National Nutrition Surveillance Data," CID Working Papers 90, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
  17. Steven A. Block & Paul M. Vaaler, 2001. "The Price of Democracy: Sovereign Risk Ratings, Bond Spreads and Political Business Cycles in Developing Countries," CID Working Papers 82, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
  18. Steven A. Block & Smita Singh & Karen E. Ferree, 2001. "Multiparty Competition, Founding Elections and Political Business Cycles in Africa," CID Working Papers 80A, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
  19. Block, S.A., 1999. "Does Africa Grow Differently?," Papers 31, Bell Communications - Economic Research Group.
  20. Block, Steven & Timmer, C, 1994. "Agriculture and economic Growth: Conceptual Issues and the Kenyan Experience," Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) Papers 294048, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government.

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Articles

  1. S. Block & B. Haile & L. You & D. Headey, 2022. "Heat shocks, maize yields, and child height in Tanzania," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 14(1), pages 93-109, February.
  2. Bai, Yan & Alemu, Robel & Block, Steven A. & Headey, Derek & Masters, William A., 2021. "Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
  3. Robert H Bates & Steven Block, 2018. "Political institutions and economic growth in Africa’s ‘Renaissance’," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 70(2), pages 327-352.
  4. Mulmi, Prajula & Block, Steven A. & Shively, Gerald E. & Masters, William A., 2016. "Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 23(C), pages 63-75.
  5. Steven A. Block, 2014. "The post-independence decline and rise of crop productivity in sub-Saharan Africa: measurement and explanations," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 66(2), pages 373-396.
  6. Steven Block, 2013. "Book Reviews," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 61(2), pages 475-477.
  7. Robert H. Bates & Steven A. Block & Ghada Fayad & Anke Hoeffler, 2013. "The New Institutionalism and Africa," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 22(4), pages 499-522, August.
  8. Steven A. Block & William A. Masters & Priya Bhagowalia, 2012. "Does Child Undernutrition Persist Despite Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries? Quantile Regression Results," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(12), pages 1699-1715, December.
  9. Robert H. Bates & Steven Block, 2010. "Political Institutions and Agricultural Trade Interventions in Africa," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 93(2), pages 317-323.
  10. Block, Steven, 2009. "A. Bhargava, Food, Economics and Health , Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK (2008) 221 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-926914," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 7(1), pages 128-129, March.
  11. Steven Block & Patrick Webb, 2009. "Up in Smoke: Tobacco Use, Expenditure on Food, and Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 58(1), pages 1-23, October.
  12. Steven A. Block, 2007. "Maternal nutrition knowledge versus schooling as determinants of child micronutrient status," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 59(2), pages 330-353, April.
  13. Paul M. Vaaler & Burkhard N. Schrage & Steven A. Block, 2006. "Elections, Opportunism, Partisanship and Sovereign Ratings in Developing Countries," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 10(1), pages 154-170, February.
  14. Paul M Vaaler & Burkhard N Schrage & Steven A Block, 2005. "Counting the investor vote: political business cycle effects on sovereign bond spreads in developing countries," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 36(1), pages 62-88, January.
  15. Steven Block, 2004. "Maternal Nutrition Knowledge and the Demand for Micronutrient-Rich Foods: Evidence from Indonesia," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(6), pages 82-105.
  16. Block, Steven A. & Vaaler, Paul M., 2004. "The price of democracy: sovereign risk ratings, bond spreads and political business cycles in developing countries," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 23(6), pages 917-946, October.
  17. Webb, Patrick & Block, Steven, 2004. "Nutrition Information and Formal Schooling as Inputs to Child Nutrition," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 52(4), pages 801-820, July.
  18. Block, Steven A. & Kiess, Lynnda & Webb, Patrick & Kosen, Soewarta & Moench-Pfanner, Regina & Bloem, Martin W. & Peter Timmer, C., 2004. "Macro shocks and micro outcomes: child nutrition during Indonesia's crisis," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 2(1), pages 21-44, March.
  19. Block, Steven A., 2003. "Political conditions and currency crises in emerging markets," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 4(3), pages 287-309, September.
  20. Steven A. Block & Karen E. Ferree & Smita Singh, 2003. "Multiparty Competition, Founding Elections and Political Business Cycles in Africa," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 12(3), pages 444-468, September.
  21. Block, Steven, 2003. "From Crisis to Growth in Africa?: By Mats Lundahl (ed.), London: Routledge Press, 2001, pp. 304. Price: [UK pound]60," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 72(1), pages 417-420, October.
  22. Block, Steven A., 2002. "Political business cycles, democratization, and economic reform: the case of Africa," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 67(1), pages 205-228, February.
  23. Block, Steven A., 2001. "Does Africa grow differently?," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(2), pages 443-467, August.
  24. Block, S. & Webb, P., 2001. "The dynamics of livelihood diversification in post-famine Ethiopia," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 26(4), pages 333-350, August.
  25. Steven A. Block, 1999. "Agriculture and economic growth in Ethiopia: growth multipliers from a four‐sector simulation model," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 20(3), pages 241-252, May.
  26. Steven A. Block, 1999. "Eicher, Carl K., and John M. Staatz, eds. International Agricultural Development. Baltimore MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, 615 pp., $65.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper)," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 81(3), pages 747-749.
  27. Block, Steven A., 1995. "The recovery of agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 20(5), pages 385-405, October.
  28. Steven A. Block, 1994. "A New View of Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 76(3), pages 619-624.

Chapters

  1. Steven Block, 2014. "The Decline and Rise of Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa since 1961," NBER Chapters, in: African Successes, Volume IV: Sustainable Growth, pages 13-67, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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  1. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (6) 2009-07-03 2010-10-30 2016-05-21 2016-05-28 2022-03-07 2023-07-17. Author is listed
  2. NEP-DEV: Development (5) 2003-11-23 2009-07-03 2010-10-30 2016-05-28 2023-07-17. Author is listed
  3. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (3) 2003-11-23 2003-11-23 2009-07-03
  4. NEP-AFR: Africa (2) 2009-07-03 2010-10-30
  5. NEP-EFF: Efficiency and Productivity (1) 2010-10-30
  6. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (1) 2022-03-07
  7. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (1) 2010-10-30

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