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Jonna P. Estudillo, PhD

Professor

Education

Ph. D. Economics, University of Hawaii, December 1995
M.A. Economics, University of the Philippines (Diliman), October 1989
B.S. Agricultural Economics, University of the Philippines (Los Banos), April 1986

Research Interests

  • Poverty, economic mobility, gender and development, non-farm sector, agricultural productivity
    Geographical focus: Southeast Asia, South Asia

Courses taught:

  • DE 291 (Growth, Poverty and Institutions), Econ 102 (Microeconomics I),  Econ 199 (Seminar),
    Econ 271 (Economics of Agriculture), Econ 298 (Special Studies in Economics: Gender and Development)

Academic, Research, and Other Positions

  • Professor, University of the Philippines School of Economics, 2021 to present
  • Visiting Professor, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, April 1-June 30, 2015 and April 1-June 30, 2016
  • Visiting Scholar, The East-West Center, Honolulu, April 1, 2017-March 30, 2018
  • Associate Editor, Philippine Review of Economics, 2013-present
  • Professor, GRIPS, 2011-2021
  • Professorial Fellow, FASID and Professor, GRIPS, 2009-2011
  • Faculty Fellow, Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) and
  • Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), 2007-2009
  • Member, East Asian Economic Association
  • Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of the Philippines, 2002-2007
  • Faculty Fellow, Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) and
  • Visiting Associate Professor, GRIPS, 2000-2002
  • Post-doctoral Fellow, Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan), 1998-2000
  • Lecturer, University of the Philippines at Los Banos, 1990-91
  • Research Assistant at International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines, 1989-90

Awards and Fellowships

  • Fuwa Memorial Award in 2022 given by the Japan Association for Development Economics
  • Outstanding Young Scientist Award given by the National Academy of Science and Technology of the Philippine government in 2004
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) granted by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2010-2014 (An Exploration into Poverty Reduction Strategies in Rural Laos)
  • Fellow, International Rice Research Institute (Philippines), 1996-98
  • Degree fellowship, East West Center/University of Hawaii, 1991-95

Selected Publications/Discussion Papers

Journal Articles

  • Yoko Sakai, Jonna P. Estudillo, Nobuhiko Fuwa, Yuki Higuchi, and Yasuyuki Sawada (2017) “Do Natural Disasters Affect the Poor Disproportionately? Price Change and Welfare Impact in the Aftermath of Typhoon Milenyo in the Rural Philippines” World Development 94:16-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.036
  • Nandika S. Kumanayake, Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka (2014) “Changing Sources of Household Income, Poverty, and Sectoral Inequality in Sri Lanka, 1990-2006.” The Developing Economies, 52(1):26-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12033
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Yukichi Mano and Saygnasak Seng-Arloun (2013) “Job Choice of Three Generations in Rural Laos.” Journal of Development Studies 49 (7):991-1009. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2013.785528
  • Charity Gay E. Ramos, Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada, Keijiro Otsuka (2012) “Transformation of the Rural Economy in the Philippines, 1988-2006.” Journal of Development Studies, 48(11):1629-1648. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2012.716151
  • Yasuyuki Sawada and Jonna P. Estudillo (2012) “The MDGs and Exit Time: The Case of the Philippines.” Applied Economics, 44(26):3371-3377. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.577012
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada and Keijiro Otsuka (2009) “The Changing Determinants of Schooling Investments: Evidence from the Villages in the Philippines, 1985-1989 and 2000-2004.” Journal of Development Studies, 45(3):391-411. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380802265371
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada and Keijiro Otsuka (2008) “Income Dynamics and Poverty Reduction in the Philippine Villages, 1985-2004.” Review of Development Economics, 12(4):877-890. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9361.2008.00458.x
  • Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka (2006) “Lessons from Three Decades of Green Revolution in the Philippines” The Developing Economies, 44(2):123-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1049.2006.00010.x
    Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada and Keijiro Otsuka (2006) “The Green Revolution, Development of Labor Markets, and Poverty Reduction in the Rural Philippines, 1985-2004” Agricultural Economics 35 (Supplement 3):399-406. https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pes72.htm
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Mahabub Hossain (2005) “Socioeconomic Changes and the Decline in Poverty: A View from Three Villages in the Philippines, 1985-97.” Asian Economic Journal 19(4): 383-406. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8381.2005.00218.x
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Agnes Quisumbing and Keijiro Otsuka (2001) “Gender Differences in Wealth Transfer and Expenditure Allocation: Evidence from the Rural Philippines.” The Developing Economies 39(4):366-94. https://www.ide.go.jp/library/English/Publish/Periodicals/De/pdf/01_04_02.pdf
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Agnes Quisumbing and Keijiro Otsuka (2001) “Income Distribution in Rice-growing Villages During the Post-Green Revolution Periods: The Philippine Case, 1985 and 1998.” Agricultural Economics 25(1):71-84. DOI:10.1016/S0169-5150(00)00085-2
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Agnes Quisumbing and Keijiro Otsuka (2001) “Gender Differences in Land Inheritance, Schooling and Lifetime Income: Evidence from the Rural Philippines.” Journal of Development Studies 37(4):23-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380412331322031
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Agnes Quisumbing and Keijiro Otsuka (2001) “Gender Differences in Land Inheritance and Schooling Investments in the Rural Philippines.” Land Economics 77(1):130-143. https://doi.org/10.2307/3146985, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3146985
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, and Keijiro Otsuka (1999) “Green Revolution, Human Capital, Off-farm Employment: Changing Sources of Income Among Farm Households in Central Luzon, 1966-94.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 47(3) : 497-523. https://doi.org/10.1086/452417, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/452417
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Manabu Fujimura and Mahabubu Hossain (1999) “New Rice Technology and Comparative Advantage in Rice Production in the Philippines.” Journal of Development Studies 35(5):162-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220389908422596
  • Jonna P. Estudillo (1997) “Income Inequality in the Philippines, 1961-91.” The Developing Economies 35(1):68-95. https://www.ide.go.jp/library/English/Publish/Periodicals/De/pdf/97_01_04.pdf

Other Journals

  • Francis Mark Quimba and Jonna P. Estudillo (2020) “Forces of Modernization and the Welfare of Rural Households: A Sage of a Village in Central Luzon, 1971-2013” Forthcoming at the The Philippine Review of Economics 57(1): 42-70. DOI: 10.37907/3ERP0202J
  • Jonna P. Estudillo (2018) “Maternal Mortality in Lao PDR” The Philippine Review of Economics, 9(1& 2): 87-109. https://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/970/868
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Kinnalone Phimmavong, and Francis Mark Quimba (2017) “Moving Out of Poverty: A Brief Review of the Process of Inclusive Growth in Lao People’s Democratic Republic” The Philippine Review of Economics, 54(1):32-46. https://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/948/857
  • Ma. Laarni D. Revilla and Jonna P. Estudillo (2016) “An Essay on Schooling Outcomes in the Philippines: the Role of Households, Markets, and Institutions” The Philippine Review of Economics, 53(2):47-65. https://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/942/861
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Tomoya Matsumoto, Hayat Chowdhury Zia Uddin, Nandika S. Kumanayake, and Keijiro Otsuka (2013) “Labor Markets, Occupational Choice and Rural Poverty in Four Asian Countries” The Philippine Review of Economics, 50(1):23-44. https://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/889/789
  • Jonna P. Estudillo and Manabu Fujimura (2016) “Comparative Advantage in Rice Production: Vietnam and Myanmar.” Aoyama Journal of Economics, 68(1):1-24.
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Yukichi Mano, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Keijiro Otsuka (2014) “Poor Parents, Rich Children: The Role of Schooling, Nonfarm Work, and Migration in Rural Philippines.” The Philippine Review of Economics, 51(2):21-26. https://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/908/808
  • Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka (2013) “Hayami’s Development Economics.” The Philippine Review of Economics, 50(1):111-112. https://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/893/793
  • Otsuka, Keijiro, Jonna P. Estudillo and Takashi Yamano (2010) “The Role of Labor Markets and Human Capital in Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Asia and Africa,” Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development, 7(1):23-40. https://ajad.searca.org/article?p=52
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Ramos, Charity Gay A., and Otsuka, Keijiro (2009) “Geography and the Evolution of Rural Nonfarm Sector in the Philippines, 1988-2006.” The Philippine Review of Economics, 46(2):17-53. https://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/1/676
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada and Keijiro Otsuka (2004) “The Determinants of Schooling Investments of the Rural Filipino Households, 1985-2002.” The Philippine Review of Economics 41(1):1-29. https://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/164/590
  • Jonna P. Estudillo and Mahabub Hossain (2003) “Land Distribution and Income Inequality in Rice-growing Villages in the Philippines, 1993, 1997” The Philippine Review of Economics 40 (2):1-30. https://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/19
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, and Keijiro Otsuka (2001) “Has Green Revolution Ended? A Review of Long-Term Trends in MV Adoption, Rice Yields and Rice Income in Central Luzon, 1966-99.” Japanese Journal of Rural Economics 3: 51-64. https://doi.org/10.18480/jjre.3.51

Book and Book Chapters

  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Yoko Kijima and Tetsushi Sonobe (editors) “Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa: Essays in Honor of Keijiro Otsuka” (Forthcoming in Springer)
  • Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka (2018)“Transformation of Rural Economies in Asia and Africa” Ch. 10 in Keijiro Otsuka and Kaoru Sugihara Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa, Springer.
  • Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka (2016) “Agricultural and Rural Development as Instruments for Inclusive Growth in Southeast Asia” Chapter 2 in Cielito F. Habito, Doris Capistrano, and Gil Saguiguit, Jr. (Editors) Farms, Food and Future: Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), Los Banos, Philippines.
  • Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka (2016) “Moving Out of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Inclusive Growth in Asia.” Routledge, London.
  • Jonna P. Estudillo (2013) “The Response of Rural Coastal Households to Typhoon Milenyo in the Philippines” Ch. 16 In Aris Ananta, Armin Bauer and Myo Thant (eds) The Environments of the Poor in Southeast Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.
  • Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka (2013) “Lessons from the Asian Green Revolution” Ch.2 in Otsuka, K. and D. Larson (eds). An African Green Revolution: Finding Ways to Boost Productivity on Small Farms, New York: Springer.
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada, Nobuhiko Fuwa, Kei Kajisa, and Masao Kikuchi (2011) “The Transformation of Hayami’s Village” Ch.14 in Otsuka, K. and K. Kalirajan (eds). Community, Market, and State in Development: Papers in Honor of Yujiro Hayami, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Donald F. Larson, Keijiro Otsuka, Kei Kajisa, Jonna P. Estudillo and Aliou Diagne (2010) “Fostering a Green Revolution in Rice: Can Africa Replicate Asia’s Experience? Ch.1.5 pp.113-138, in S.Pandey, D.Byerlee, D.Dawe, A.Dobermann, S.Mohanty, S.Rozelle and B.Hardy (eds) Rice in the Global Economy: Strategic Research and Policy Issues for Food Security, Los Banos (Philippines): International Rice Research Institute.
  • Keijiro Otsuka and Jonna P. Estudillo (2010) “Economic Development, Land Tenure, and the Changing Optimum Farm Size” Ch.2.1 in S.Pandey, D.Byerlee, D.Dawe, A.Dobermann, S.Mohanty, S.Rozelle and B.Hardy (eds) Rice in the Global Economy: Strategic Research and Policy Issues for Food Security, Los Banos (Philippines): International Rice Research Institute.
  • Yasuyuki Sawada, Jonna P. Estudillo, Nobuhiko Fuwa and Kei Kajisa (2009) “How Do People Cope With a Natural Disaster? The Case of Super Typhoon Milenyo in the Philippines” Ch.6 in G.P.Carnaje and L.S.Cabanilla (eds), Development, Natural Resources and the Environment, University of the Philippines at Los Banos.
  • Keijiro Otsuka, Jonna P. Estudillo and Yasuyuki Sawada, eds (2009) “Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Asia and Africa. Routledge, London.
  • Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka (2009) “Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Southeast Asia” Ch.67 pp. 3435-3468 in P. Pingali and R.E. Evenson (eds), Handbook of Agricultural Economics vol 4, North-Holland, Elsevier.
  • Keijiro Otsuka, Jonna P. Estudillo and Yasuyuki Sawada (2008) “Agricultural Technology and Children’s Occupational Choice in the Philippines” Ch.7 in K.Otsuka and K.Kalirajan (eds), Agriculture in Developing Countries: Technology Issues, New Delhi, India: Sage Publications.
  • Yasuyuki Sawada and Jonna P. Estudillo (2008) “Trade, Migration, and Poverty Reduction in the Globalizing Economy: The Case of the Philippines” in M. Nissanke and E. Thorbecke (eds.), Globalization and the Poor in Asia: Can Shared Growth be Sustained? Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka (2008) “Women’s Role in Poverty Reduction in Asia.” pp.623-634 in Science, Technology, and Trade for Peace and Poverty, edited by P.K. Aggarwal, J.K. Ladha, R.K. Singh, C. Devakumar, and B. Hardy. Delhi, India: Macmillan India
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka (2007) “The Development of the Rural Nonfarm Sector in the Philippines and Lessons from the East Asian Experience,” Chapter 11 in A. M. Balisacan and H. Hill (eds.), The Dynamics of Regional Development: The Philippines in East Asia. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007, pp. 304-328.
  • Agnes Quisumbing, Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka (2004) “Land and Schooling: Transferring Wealth across Generations.” Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
  • Agnes Quisumbing, Jonna P. Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka (2003) “Investment in Women and Its Implications for Lifetime Incomes,” in A. Quisumbing (ed.), Household Decisions, Gender, and Development, Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Manabu Fujimura and Mahabub Hossain (2002) “Comparative Advantage of Rice Production in the Philippines, 1966-99” Section 5 pp. 385-406 in Developments in Asian Rice Economy, M. Sombilla, M. Hossain, and B. Hardy, Eds. International Rice Research Institute.

Report

  • Jonna P. Estudillo, Tomoya Matsumoto, Hayat Chowdhury Zia Uddin, Nandika S. Kumanayake, and Keijiro Otsuka (2013) “Labor Markets, Occupational Choice and Rural Poverty in Selected Countries in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa” Background paper for the World Development Report 2013 “Jobs”, World Bank, Washington DC.

Other Publications (e.g., op-eds, blogs, podcasts, etc.)

  • Jonna P. Estudillo and Geoffrey Ducanes (2014) “Infrastructure and Filipino Women” Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 23, 2014

 

Full CV:
RePEc: https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pes72.htm

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