Hai-Anh H Dang

Research Fellow

World Bank

hdang@worldbank.org

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Research Interests

Hai-Anh H. Dang is a Senior Economist in the Data Analytics Unit, Development Data Group, World Bank. His main research is on international development, poverty, inequality, climate change, and data imputation methods. He has published in various leading journals, including Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Lancet Psychiatry, Scientific Data, and chapters with books published by prestigious academic publishers. He holds fellowship positions with different organizations and universities, including Research Fellow positions with IZA and GLO, visiting Senior Research Fellow positions with Indiana University's Paul O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, London School of Economics and Political Science's International Inequalities Institute, and International School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He also serves as an associate editor of Journal of Economic Surveys and a former co-editor of Review of Development Economics, on the editorial boards of other journals, and as a referee for more than 50 academic journals. His research is widely disseminated, including being among the top paper downloads on IZA and REPEC and being featured in various media outlets such as Foreign Policy, the Telegraph, Center for Global Development blog, and other local news. He has contributed to more than 70 World Bank's projects and flagship reports covering different countries around the world. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Economics from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.

Hai-Anh Dang joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2019.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18286

Reconstructing Two Decades of Inequality in the Sahel Region

Gianni Betti, Federico Crescenzi, Hai-Anh H Dang, Vasco Molini, Lorenzo Mori

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18236

Employing Data Imputation to Track Poverty and Welfare Trends over Extended Time Periods: An Application to a Poorer Country

Hai-Anh H Dang, Cuong Viet Nguyen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17445

Did Program Support for the Poorest Areas Work? Evidence from Rural Vietnam

Hai-Anh H Dang, Klaus Deininger, Cuong Viet Nguyen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17160

The Impacts of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Children's Education Outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam

Hai-Anh H Dang, Minh N.N. Do, Cuong Viet Nguyen

published in: Economics of Education Review; 2025, 106, 102656

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17136

Imputing Poverty Indicators without Consumption Data: An Exploratory Analysis

Hai-Anh H Dang, Talip Kilic, Kseniya Abanokova, Calogero Carletto

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17064

Addressing Soil Quality Data Gaps with Imputation: Evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda

Hai-Anh H Dang, Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay, Kseniya Abanokova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17036

Using Cross-Survey Imputation to Estimate Poverty for Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia

Ibrahima Sarr, Hai-Anh H Dang, Carlos Santiago Guzman Gutierrez, Theresa Beltramo, Paolo Verme

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2025, 177 (1), 207-251

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17001

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Hai-Anh H Dang, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Minh N.N. Do

forthcoming in: Middle East Development Journal, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16892

Country Statistical Capacity: A Recent Assessment Tool and Further Reflections on the Way Forward

Hai-Anh H Dang, Dean Jolliffe, Umar Serajuddin, Brian Stacy

published in: Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 2024, 40 (2), 211–225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16792

Using Survey-to-Survey Imputation to Fill Poverty Data Gaps at a Low Cost: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment

Hai-Anh H Dang, Talip Kilic, Vladimir Hlasny, Kseniya Abanokova, Calogero Carletto

forthcoming in: World Bank Economic Review, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16745

Reviewing Assessment Tools for Measuring Country Statistical Capacity

Hai-Anh H Dang, John Pullinger, Umar Serajuddin, Brian Stacy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16738

Tackling the Last Hurdles of Poverty Entrenchment: An Investigation of Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17

Hai-Anh H Dang, Dhushyanth Raju, Tomomi Tanaka, Kseniya Abanokova

published as 'Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17: An Investigation Using Synthetic Panels' in: Scientific African, 2024, 25, e02282

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16641

Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Typology

Shireen AlAzzawi, Hai-Anh H Dang, Vladimir Hlasny, Kseniya Abanokova, Jere R. Behrman

published as 'Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Taxonomy' in: Social Indicators Research, 2025, 180 (2), 1067–1202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16570

Does Global Warming Worsen Poverty and Inequality? An Updated Review

Hai-Anh H Dang, Stephane Hallegatte, Trong-Anh Trinh

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, 38 (5), 1873-1905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16272

Diluted Blood Still Better than Water? The Beneficial Effects of Politicians' Birthplaces on Refugee Acceptance

Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15916

Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?

Hai-Anh H Dang, Shatakshee Dhongde, Minh N.N. Do, Cuong Viet Nguyen, Obert Pimhidzai

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2025, 29 (4), 2063-2075

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15873

Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data: A Revisit with Further Refinements

Hai-Anh H Dang, Talip Kilic, Kseniya Abanokova, Calogero Carletto

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2025, 71 (1), e12714

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15827

Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections

Hai-Anh H Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 85 (3), 599-622.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15684

Learning Inequalities during COVID-19: Evidence from Longitudinal Surveys from Sub-Saharan Africa

Hai-Anh H Dang, Gbemisola Oseni, Alberto Zezza, Kseniya Abanokova

published as 'Educational Inequalities during COVID-19: Results from Longitudinal Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa' in: International Journal of Education Development, 2025, 112, 103174 (without A. Zezza)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15396

The Unequal Impact of the COVID Pandemic: Theory and Evidence on Health and Economic Outcomes for Different Income Groups

Cécile Aubert, Hai-Anh H Dang, Manh-Hung Nguyen

published as 'The Unequal Impact of Covid-19: Health, Wealth and Behaviors by Income Groups' in: Revue Francaise d'Economie, 2022, 2, 43-77.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15326

Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty? Global Evidence from Subnational Data Analysis

Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh

forthcoming as ''Impacts of Global Warming on Subnational Poverty and Inequality' in: Nature Climate Change, 2025 (with Stephane Hallegatte, and Minh Cong Nguyen)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15244

Do Gender, Child, and Parent Characteristics Contribute to Intergenerational Subjective Well-Being Mobility? Evidence from Russia during 1994-2019

Hai-Anh H Dang, Kseniya Abanokova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15005

The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Hai-Anh H Dang, Paul Glewwe, Jongwook Lee, Khoa Vu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14997

Recall Bias Revisited: Measure Farm Labor Using Mixed-Mode Surveys and Multiple Imputation

Hai-Anh H Dang, Calogero Carletto

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14766

Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey

Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh, Paolo Verme

published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (12), 2819-2835

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14631

Data Scarcity and Poverty Measurement

Hai-Anh H Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw

published as 'Regression-based imputation for poverty measurement in data-scarce settings' in: Jacques Silber (ed.), Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, Edward Elgar Press, 2023, chapter 13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14606

Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad

Theresa Beltramo, Hai-Anh H Dang, Ibrahima Sarr, Paolo Verme

published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2024, 52 (1), 94-113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14544

Poverty in Russia: A Bird's-Eye View of Trends and Dynamics in the past Quarter of Century

Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh H Dang

published in: Jacques Silber (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, Edward Elgar Press, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14315

What Explains Vietnam's Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries? Analysis of the 2012 and 2015 Pisa Data

Hai-Anh H Dang, Paul Glewwe, Khoa Vu, Jongwook Lee

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 96, 102434.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14236

On Synthetic Income Panels

Héctor Moreno, Francois Bourguignon, Hai-Anh H Dang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13958

Did a Successful Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic Come at a Cost? Impacts of the Outbreak on Employment Outcomes in Vietnam

Hai-Anh H Dang, Cuong Viet Nguyen

published in: World Development, 2023, 161, 106129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13895

Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations

Grant J. Cameron, Hai-Anh H Dang, Mustafa Dinc, James Foster, Michael Lokshin

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 870-896.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13824

Gender Inequality during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Income, Expenditure, Savings, and Job Loss

Hai-Anh H Dang, Cuong Viet Nguyen

published in: World Development, 2021, 140, 105296.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13816

Inequality and Support for Government Responses to COVID-19

Hai-Anh H Dang, Edmund Malesky, Cuong Viet Nguyen

published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (9), e0272972.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13651

The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution: Evidence from Vietnam

Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58 (10), 1917-1933.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13480

Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-National Evidence on Its Unintended Consequences

Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 105, 102401.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13352

Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Disproportionately Affect the Poor? Evidence from a Six-Country Survey

Hai-Anh H Dang, Toan L. D. Huynh, Manh-Hung Nguyen

published in: Journal of Economics and Development, 2024, 26 (1), 2-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13315

Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery: A Job-Focused Analysis of Individual Assessments on Their Finance and the Economy

Hai-Anh H Dang, Long T. Giang

published in: Sustainability, 2021, 13 (19), 10664

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13215

Welfare Dynamics in India over a Quarter Century: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility during 1987-2012

Hai-Anh H Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13058

Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017

Hai-Anh H Dang, Kseniya Abanokova, Michael Lokshin

published in: Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, 2023, 247 (4), 125-153.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13043

The Important Role of Equivalence Scales: Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in Russia

Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh H Dang, Michael Lokshin

published as 'Do Adjustments for Equivalence Scales Affect Poverty Dynamics? Evidence from the Russian Federation during 1994-2017' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (S1), S167 - S192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12940

Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India

Paul Anand, Swati Saxena, Rolando Gonzales Martinez, Hai-Anh H Dang

published in: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2020, 21(2), 137-160.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12822

Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations: Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?

Hai-Anh H Dang, Paolo Verme

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 653 - 679

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12814

Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam

Hai-Anh H Dang, Masako Hiraga, Cuong Viet Nguyen

published in: World Development, 2022, 159, 106022