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 Diana M. Weinhold
About me: I'm an Associate Professor
of development economics in the Department of International Development at the
London School of Economics. I'm also a co-director of the doctoral
research programme in International Development here, and I teach an MSc course on
evidence-based policy analysis, "Economic Development Policy I: Applied
Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development" (DV490), as
well as run the quantitative section of the research methods course for MSc
students.
Research interests: My research interests are
primarily in growth, development, environmental and urban economics.
Contact details:
- Address:
London School of
Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE United
Kingdom
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6331
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Email:
d.weinhold@lse.ac.uk
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Room number: CON.710 (Connaught House)
Journal Articles
“Smoking Status and Subjective Well-Being” (first author, with Frank
Chaloupka), forthcoming
Tobacco Control, 2016
“Net
Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Bolivia during 1990-2000 and 2000-2010:
Results from a carbon bookkeeping model” (with Lykke Andersen,
Anna Sophia Doyle,
Susana del Granado, Juan Carlos Ledezma, Agnes Medinaceli, Montserrat
Valdivia), forthcoming, PLOS ON
“Boom-Bust Patterns in the Brazilian Amazon” (with Eustaquio Reis and
Petterson M. Vale), Global Environmental
Change (35)
2015
“Soybeans, Poverty and Inequality in the
Brazilian Amazon” (with Eustaquio Reis and Evan Killick), World
Development, vol 52, December 2013
“The Happiness
Reducing Costs of Noise Pollution,” Journal
of Regional Science, vol.
53, no. 2, 2013
“A
social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales:
the Sustainable Amazon Network” (with Toby A. Gardner, et al.) Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society B,
368
(20120166), April 2013
"Innovation,
Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights" (with Usha
Nair-Reichert), World Development, Volume 37, Issue 5, May 2009
"Valuing
future development rights and the costs of conservation easements" (with
Kathryn Anderson) Ecological Economics, Volume 68, Issues 1-2,
December 2008
"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
Importance of Trade and Geography in the Pattern of Spatial Dependence of
Growth Rates" Review of Development Economics, vol. 6 no.
3, 2002
"The
Internet and International Trade in Services" (with Caroline L. Freund),
American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), vol. 92 no.
2, May 2002
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
Sick of Noise: the Health Effects of Loud Neighbours
and Urban Din
Smoking Status and Subjective
Well-Being (with Frank Chaloupka)
The choice of institutions: the role of risk and
risk aversion (with Paul Zak)
A dynamic 'fixed effects' model for heterogeneous panel
data
Downloadable estimation programs
Current
and Past Ph.D. students
Petterson Molina Vale, Ph.D. 2015 “Cattle and
deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.”
Yi Fan, Ph.D. 2015 “Essays on Cross-Sectional
Inequality and Intergenerational Income Mobility
in China.”
Anouk Rigterink, PhD 2014 “Quantitative Analysis of
Violent Conflict.”
Maria Waldinger, PhD 2014 “Historical Events and
their Effects on Long-Term Economic and Social Development.”
Azza El-Shinnawy, Ph.D. 2012
"The Transformation of the Egyptian Pharmaceutical
Industry"
Munshi Sulaiman (co-supervisor), Ph.D. 2012,
"Targeted anti-poverty programmes and risk sharing"
Megha Mukim, Ph.D. 2012 “Essays in Trade and
Economic Geography”
James Ellis, Ph.D. 2008
“An analysis of culture and fertility decisions”
Melanie Khamis, Ph.D. 2008 “An empirical
investigation of the informal labor
market,
minimum wages and workfare programs at times of growth and crisis in urban
Argentina, 1992-2005”
Stuart B. Miller, Ph.D. 2007 “The Micro-Economic
Implications fo Natural Disaster
Risk for Developing Countries: Evidence from Nicaragua”
Thi Minh Ngo, Ph.D. 2005
(co-supervisor)
"Gains and losses from
decollectivisation in Vietnam: land redistribution, agricultural growth and
rural poverty (1992-1998)"
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