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Diana Weinhold
Diana M. Weinhold
About me: I'm a senior lecturer (UK associate professor) of development economics in the Development Studies Institute at the LSE. I'm also the Director of the MSc programme in Development Studies here, and I teach a course on evidence-based policy analysis, "Economic Development Policy," as well as run the quantitative section of the research methods course. I also have a handful of PhD students working on a variety of fascinating topics.
Research interests: My research interests are primarily in growth, environmental economics, and applied econometrics, but I'm interested in almost all aspects of economics and human behaviour. Recently I have been studying land use and soybean production in the Brazilian Amazon and will be working with Evan Killick next year on a project combining ethnographic and econometric analyses of land use there.
Contact details:
- Address:
London
School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE United Kingdom - Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6331
- Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6844
- Email: d.weinhold@lse.ac.uk
- Room number: V409 (Tower Two)
Selected Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Valuing future development rights and the costs of conservation easements (with Kathryn Anderson) forthcoming, Ecological Economics
- Innovation, Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights (with Usha Nair), forthcoming, World Development
- Land Use and Transportation Costs in the Brazilian Amazon (with Eustaquio Reis), Global Environmental Change vol. 18, issue 1, pp. 54-68, February 2008
- Correcting for bias when estimating the cost of hospital-acquired infection: an analysis of lower respiratory tract infections in non-surgical patients (with Nick Graves and Jennifer Roberts) Health Economics Vol. 14 no. 7, July 2005
- On the Effect of the Internet on International Trade with Caroline L. Freund. Journal of International Economics, 62(1) January 2004
- The Internet and International Trade in Services with Caroline L. Freund. American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), vol. 92 no. 2, May 2002
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The Importance of Trade and Geography in the Pattern of Spatial Dependence of Growth Rates Review of Development Economics, vol. 6 no. 3, 2002
- Testing for causality in short panels: the case of infrastructure development and population growth in the Brazilian Amazon with Eustaquio Reis, Journal of Regional Science vol. 41 no. 4, November 2001
- Causality Tests for Cross Country Panels: A look at FDI and Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries (with Usha Nair), lead article, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics vol. 63 no. 2, 2001
- Trade, Specialization, and Productivity Growth (with James E. Rauch), Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 32, no. 4, August 1999
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An Estimation of Land Degradation in the Amazon Ecological Economics,31(1) October 1999
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Household Characteristics and Income Inequality During Inflationary Periods: Recent Evidence from Surinam with Andrew Horowitz. World Development, vol. 26 no. 2 February 1998
Books:
- The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon, with Clive W.J. Granger, Eustaquio Reis, Lykke Andersen, and Sven Wunder. Cambridge University Press, December 2002
Current Working Papers
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Soya Expansion and poverty in the Brazilian Amazon (with Eustaquio Reis)
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Innovation, Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights (with Usha Nair-Reichert)
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How big a problem is noise pollution? a brief happiness analysis by a perturbable economist
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The choice of institutions: the role of risk and risk aversion (with Paul Zak)
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Random reduction in a general to simple framework
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A dynamic 'fixed effects' model for heterogeneous panel data
Downloadable estimation programs
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