James E. Foster

Sociology and Political Science · 1999–2015

A researcher in the Science corpus: 13 papers; trusts 33 researchers and is trusted by 28 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Sociology and Political Science — 144 citations into it; #1,502 of 22,756 by trust here, #2,628 by citations
• Economics and Econometrics — 73 citations into it; #4,395 of 23,481 by trust here, #10,133 by citations
• Safety Research — 57 citations into it; #901 of 5,829 by trust here, #1,326 by citations
• Soil Science — 29 citations into it
• General Health Professions — 12 citations into it
• Social Psychology — 12 citations into it
• Management Science and Operations Research — 10 citations into it
• Gender Studies — 6 citations into it; #486 of 4,924 by trust here, #2,373 by citations

Whom James E. Foster trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. François Bourguignon
2. Anthony B. Atkinson
3. Anthony Shorrocks
4. M. Ravallion
5. J. Jalan
6. S. Alkire
7. Jean-Yves Duclos
8. M. McGillivray
9. Buhong Zheng
10. M. B. Cahill

Who trusts James E. Foster overall

1. S. Alkire
2. Cesar Calvo
3. Stefan Dercon
4. Walter Bossert
5. C. Mills
6. Satya R. Chakravarty
7. Suman Seth
8. Rolf Aaberge
9. Aart C. Kraay
10. Katharina Drescher

Papers from James E. Foster's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers James E. Foster trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. A Theory of Justice
2. Is transient poverty different? Evidence for rural China
3. Aggregate Poverty Measures
4. Statistical Inference for Stochastic Dominance and for the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality
5. Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons
6. The growth elasticity of poverty reduction : explaining heterogeneity across countries and time periods
7. Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement
8. On Measuring Household Food Vulnerability: Case Evidence from Northern Mali
9. Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?
10. Measuring Multidimensional Poverty: An Empirical Comparison of Various Approaches

Their papers

• Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement (2011) — 855 citations
• A class of chronic poverty measures (2007) — 228 citations
• Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 8 – Robustness Analysis and Statistical Inference (2015) — 597 citations
• Is Economic Growth Good for the Poor? Tracking Low Incomes Using General Means (2001) — 177 citations
• Designing the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (HDI) (2010) — 167 citations
• Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity: Progress and Policies (2015) — 128 citations
• The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures: 25 years later (2010) — 259 citations
• Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association, and Redundancy (2013) — 113 citations
• A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice (2013) — 138 citations
• Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement (2011) — 247 citations
• The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: Twenty-Five Years Later (2010) — 51 citations
• Polarization and the decline of the middle class: Canada and the U.S. (2010) — 378 citations
• Lorenz Dominance and the Variance of Logarithms (1999)