Dr  Vegard Iversen - Publications

Book contribution

• Vegard Iversen. "Caste and Upwards Mobility." In The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy, ed. Chetan Ghate, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. eScholarID:119816
• Vegard Iversen, Kunal Sen, Arjan Verschoor, Amaresh Dubey. "Job recruitment networks and migration to cities in India." In Migration, Identity and Conflict, ed. S. Irudaya Rajan, 144-172. New Delhi: Routledge, 2011. eScholarID:119817
• Vegard Iversen, Richard Palmer-Jones. "Literacy sharing, assortative mating or what? Labour market advantages and proximate illiteracy revisited." In Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy and Development, ed. Kaushik Basu, Bryan Maddox, Anna Robinson-Pant, 29-70. London: Routledge, 2009. eScholarID:120242
• Vegard Iversen. "Intra-household inequality: a challenge for the capability approach?." In Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas - A Gender Perspective, ed. Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries, Ingrid Robeyns, 95-118. London: Routledge, 2005. eScholarID:120253
• Vegard Iversen. "On Notions of Agency, Individual Heterogeneity and the Existence, Size and Composition of a Bonded Child Labour Force." In Globalization, Culture and the Limits of the Market - Essays in Economics and Philosophy, ed. Stephen Cullenberg, Prasanta K. Pattanaik, 107-141. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. eScholarID:120801
• Kjell Arne Brekke, Vegard Iversen, Jens B. Aune. "Tanzania's Soil Wealth." In Natural Resource Accounting and Economic Development - Theory and Practice, ed. Charles Perrings, Jeffrey R. Vincent, 142-165. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2003. eScholarID:120802

Journal article

• Vegard Iversen, Cecile Jackson, Bereket Kebede, Alistair Munro and Arjaan Verschoor. "Do spouses realise cooperative gains? Experimental evidence from rural Uganda." World Development 39, no. 4(2011) : 569-578. eScholarID:119413 | DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.09.011
• Vegard Iversen, Yashodhan Ghorpade. "Misfortune, misfits and what the city gave and took: the stories of South-Indian child labour migrants 1935-2005." Modern Asian Studies 45, no. 5(2011) : 1177-1226. eScholarID:119414 | DOI:10.1017/S0026749X10000065
• Vegard Iversen, Gaute Torsvik. "Networks, middlemen and other (urban) labour market mysteries." Indian Growth and Development Review 3, no. 1(2010) : 62-80. eScholarID:119415 | DOI:10.1108/17538251011035882
• Vegard Iversen, Kunal Sen, Arjan Verschoor, Amaresh Dubey. "Job recruitment networks and migration to cities in India." Journal of Development Studies 45, no. 4(2009) : 522-543. eScholarID:119418 | DOI:10.1080/00220380902725688
• Vegard Iversen, Richard Palmer-Jones. "Literacy sharing, assortative mating or what? Labour market advantages and proximate illiteracy revisited." Journal of Development Studies 44, no. 6(2008) : 797-838. eScholarID:119453 | DOI:10.1080/00220380802058156
• Vegard Iversen, Birkka Chettry, Paul Francis, Madhu Gurung, Ganendra Kafle, Adam Pain, Janet Seeley. "High value forests, hidden economies and elite capture: Evidence from forest user groups in Nepal's Terai." Ecological Economics 58, no. 1(2006) : 93-107. eScholarID:119572 | DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.05.021
• Vegard Iversen, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Godfrey Bahiigwa, Frank Ellis, Robert James. "Private tax collection - remnant of the past or a way forward? Evidence from Rural Uganda." Public Administration and Development 26(2006) : 317-328. eScholarID:119571 | DOI:10.1002/pad.412
• Vegard Iversen, P. S. Raghavendra. "What the signboard hides: Food, caste and employability in small South-Indian eating places." Contributions to Indian Sociology 40, no. 3(2006) : 311-341. eScholarID:119570 | DOI:10.1177/006996670604000302
• Birkka Chettry, Paul Francis, Madhu Gurung, Vegard Iversen, Ganendra Kafle, Adam Pain, Janet Seeley. "A Framework for the Analysis of Community Forest Performance in the Terai." Journal of Forest and Livelihood 4, no. 2(2005) : 1-16. eScholarID:121338
• Vegard Iversen. "Intra-household inequality: a challenge for the capability approach?" Feminist Economics 9, no. 2-3(2003) : 93-115. eScholarID:119573 | DOI:10.1080/1354570032000080868
• Vegard Iversen. "Autonomy in child labor migrants." World Development 30, no. 5(2002) : 817-834. eScholarID:119813 | DOI:10.1016/S0305-750X(02)00007-4
• Henrik Wiig, Jens B. Aune, Solveig Glomsroed, Vegard Iversen. "Structural Adjustment and Soil Degradation in Tanzania - A CGE-model approach with Endogenous Soil Productivity." Agricultural Economics 24(2001) : 263-287. eScholarID:119814 | DOI:10.1111/j.1574-0862.2001.tb00029.x
• Kjell Arne Brekke, Vegard Iversen, Jens B. Aune. "Tanzania's Soil Wealth." Environment and Development Economics 4(1999) : 333-356. eScholarID:119815

Working paper

• Vegard Iversen, Richard Palmer-Jones, Kunal Sen. "On the colonial origins of agricultural development in India: a re-examination of Banerjee and Iyer 'History, institutions and economic performance'." Brookes World Poverty Institute Working Paper Series(2012) . eScholarID:165698
• Vegard Iversen and Gaute Torsvik. "Network mechanisms and social ties in markets for low- and unskilled jobs: (Theory and) Evidence from North India." Working Paper in Economics(2011) . eScholarID:158823
• Vegard Iversen, Adriaan Kalwij, Arjan Verschoor, Amaresh Dubey. "Caste dominance and economic performance in rural India." Working Paper Series(2010) . eScholarID:119419
• Magnus Hatlebakk, Vegard Iversen, Gaute Torsvik. "Caste, local networks and lucrative jobs: Evidence from rural Nepal." Working Paper(2010) . eScholarID:119416
• Ann Whitehead, Iman M. Hashim, Vegard Iversen. "Child Migration, Child Agency and Intergenerational Relations in Africa and South Asia." Working Paper(2007) . eScholarID:121037