James E. Foster

George Washington University — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Income, Poverty, and Inequality(56), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare(26), Social and Economic Development in India(13), Economic theories and models(10), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth(8)

Publications110 total

Does Social Mobility Affect Economic Development?: Cross-Country Analysis Using Different Mobility Measures
Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks·2025
Does Social Mobility Affect Economic Development? Cross-Country Analysis Using Different Mobility Measures
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association and Redundancy
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Efficient, Dynamic Locomotion through Step Placement with Straight Legs and Rolling Contacts
2024· 2 cited
Physically Consistent Online Inertial Adaptation for Humanoid Loco-manipulation
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Multidimensional and Specific Inequalities
Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks·2024
Multidimensional and Specific Inequalities
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Efficient, Dynamic Locomotion through Step Placement with Straight Legs and Rolling Contacts
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023Open Access
Table of Contents
American Journal Of Pathology·2019Open Access
Is technology change good for cotton farmers? A local-economy analysis from the Tanzania Lake Zone
European Review of Agricultural Economics·2017· 4 citedOpen Access
Miguel Székely (coord.), Números que mueven al mundo: La medición de la pobreza en México, México, ANUIES-CIDE-Sedesol, Miguel Ángel Porrúa, 2006, 912 pp.
El Trimestre Económico·2017· 1 citedOpen Access
Isolated and Proximate Illiteracy And Why These Concepts Matter in Measuring Literacy and Designing Education Programmes
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics·2016· 29 cited
Uso de paneles sintéticos para estimar movilidad intergeneracional
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics·2016· 2 citedOpen Access
Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks·2016· 5 cited
Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics·2016Open Access
Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity: Progress and Policies
World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks·2015· 48 cited
Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity
2015· 8 cited
The Alkire–Foster Counting Methodology
Oxford University Press eBooks·2015· 32 cited
Normative Choices in Measurement Design
Oxford University Press eBooks·2015· 2 cited
Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 10 - Some Regression Models for AF Measures
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)·2015Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Sabina Alkire(6), Miguel Székely(5), Anthony Shorrocks(4), Suman Seth(3), Robert S. Levine(2), Robert E. Fullilove(2), Mindy Thompson Fullilove(2), Nathaniel C. Briggs(2), Pamela C. Hull(2), Baqar A. Husaini(2), Charles H. Hennekens(2), Artyom Shneyerov(2), Luis F. López-Calva(2), Tapan Mitra(2), María Emma Santos(2), José Manuel Roche(2), Paola Ballón(2), Kathryn Anderson(2), David Frisvold(2), Kaushik Basu(2)