Published journal articles:
“Maternity Benefits and Marital Stability after Birth: Evidence from the Soviet Baltic Republics” (with Olga Malkova, Journal of Population Economics Vol. 36:4 (October 2023), 2309-2345.
“Mortality in Russia Since the Fall of the Soviet Union,” Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 63:4 (December 2021), 557-76.
"The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family: Evidence from World War II in Russia,” Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 99:2 (May 2017), 229-242.
“Religion and Health in Early Childhood: Evidence from South Asia,” (with Nidhiya Menon) Population and Development Review Vol. 41(3) (September 2015), 439-463.
“Seasonal Effects of Water Quality: The Hidden Costs of the Green Revolution to Infant and Child Health in India,” (with Nidhiya Menon), Journal of Development Economics Vol. 107 (March 2014), 49-64.
“Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data,” The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 70, no. 1 (March 2010), 83 - 117.
“Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union,” (with David M. Cutler), The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 19, no. 1 (Winter 2005), 107 - 130.
“Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination,” (with Sandra E. Black), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 57, no. 4 (July 2004), 540 - 559.
“Five Years After: The Impact of Mass Privatization on Wages in Russia, 1993 - 1998,” Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 30, no. 1 (March 2002), 160 - 190.
“Economic Reform and Mortality in the Former Soviet Union: A Study of the Suicide Epidemic in the 1990s,” European Economic Review, Vol. 45 no. 4-6 (May 2001), 995-1006.
“Women in Transition: Changes in Gender Wage Differentials in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 54 no. 1 (October 2000), 138 - 162.
“Winners and Losers in Russia’s Economic Transition,” American Economic Review, Vol. 88 no. 5 (December 1998), 1094 - 1116.
“Market Reform and Mortality in Transition Economies,” World Development, Vol. 26 no. 11 (November 1998), 2013 - 2027.
“The Role of Social Capital in the Russian Mortality Crisis,” (with Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce P. Kennedy), World Development, Vol. 26 no. 11 (November 1998), 2029 - 2043.
Other publications:
“Marriage and Divorce in Revolutionary Russia: A Demographic Analysis,” in Russia’s Home Front in War and Revolution 1914–22, Book 3: National Disintegration and Reintegration. Christopher Read, Peter Waldron, and Adele Lindenmeyr, eds. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2017, 1–29.
“Fertility Trends in the Formerly Socialist Countries of Europe,” in James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 9 (2015). Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 99–104.
“Can Government Policies Reverse Undesirable Declines in Fertility?” IZA World of Labor (Institute for the Study of Labor), 2014: 23 (May 2014).
“The Demographic Transformation of Post-Socialist Countries: Causes, Consequences, and Questions,” in Economies in Transition: The Long-Run View, edited by Gérard Roland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 57-83); also circulated as United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research Working Paper No. 2010/15.