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Duncan Thomas
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 255
Citations - 23861
Duncan Thomas is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Family life. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 245 publications receiving 22833 citations. Previous affiliations of Duncan Thomas include Michigan State University & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Farm Profits, Prices and Household Behavior
TL;DR: This article developed a new approach to testing based on household consumption choices and implement the procedure using data from rural Indonesia, finding that the consumption-based test is well-suited to identifying those farm households in any setting whose behavior is consistent with complete markets and those for whom the assumption is rejected.
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Remembrances of Things Past: Test-Retest Reliability of Retrospective Migration Histories
James P. Smith,Duncan Thomas +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the quality of long-term recall data in a rapidly changing developing country and found that recall quality, measured by consistency of incidence and dating of moves reported twelve years apart, is higher among the better educated.
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Decision-Making in Complex Households
Marcos A. Rangel,Duncan Thomas +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the complexity of household structures, including multi-generation and polygynous households, is taken into account to develop tests from theoretical models of behavior for determining whether resources are allocated Pareto efficiently.
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Assessment of Natural Hazard Damage and Reconstruction: A Case Study from Band Aceh, Indonesia
Thomas W. Gillespie,Elizabeth Frankenberg,Matt Braughton,Abigail M. Cooke,Tiffany C. Armenta,Duncan Thomas +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the spatial and temporal effectiveness of satellites and extent of damage products that were created for Banda Aceh, Indonesia after the 26 December 2004 tsunami and found that satellite imagery and geographic information system methods used in this research are most effective in regions where field data is sparse or difficult to collect within the first week following a natural disaster.
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Health, Nutrition and Economic development
John Strauss,Duncan Thomas +1 more
TL;DR: The relationship between economic development and health has received far less attention than the relationship between development and schooling as mentioned in this paper, however, recent studies indicate that better health is associated with improved labor market outcomes, particularly in low-income settings.