| Course | Year-Trimester |
| ECON 836: Applied Econometrics | 2004-1, 2005-1, 2006-1, 2007-1, 2008-1, 2009-1, 2010-1, 2011-1, 2012-1,2013-1 |
| ECON 104: Economics and Government | 2004-3, 2005-3, 2006-3, 2007-1, 2007-3, 2008-3, 2009-3, 2011-3, 2012-3 | BUEC 333: Econometrics | 2010-3 |
My Research Interests
I am interested in three major areas of empirical research: (1)
the measurement of well-being, poverty, discrimination and economic inequality;
(2) the estimation of consumer demand; (3) semi-parametric and non-parametric
econometrics. These three strands of research dovetail nicely with
my overall agenda of trying to make life better for poor people by better
documenting the trials they face in economic life. My life-goals
are sort of "old lefty": help the poor, redistribute income, create a society
where everyone has the chance to be happy.
My Administrative Work
I was Co-Director of Metropolis British Columbia (MBC), Center of Excellence for Research on Immigration
and Diversity from 2007 to 2013.
It was an interdisciplinary policy research center which connected approximately 100 academic researchers with
more than 100 policy-interested people in government and NGO communities. We engaged in the support of research,
training and dissemination of knowledge with total funding of $500,000 per year from the 9 Federal Departments,
the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development of British Columbia, and our host universities, SFU and UBC. Have a look at our website , which is now permanently hosted by UBC.
Workshop on the Economics of Poverty
Slides are available here.
This workshop was also given at the University of the Fraser Valley in May 2010.
Workshop on the Economics of Homelessness
Open Letter from Metropolis Centers on proposed Census revisions.
presentation on Census revisions.
Munir Sheikh, former Chief Statistician of Canada, on Good Data and Intelligent Government.
Available Now! A Teacher's Guide on Homelessness
Download the Flyer to see more details!
Go to my Homelessness page to download the teaching resource in full!
My Graduate Students
Mykyhaylo Salnykov (Spring 2008): see his webpage; Cheryl Fu (Fall 2008); Ben Harris .
Publications
Sam Norris and Krishna Pendakur, 2012. "Imputing Rent in Consumption Measures, with an Application to Poverty in Canada, 1997-2009", forthcoming, Canadian Journal of Economics.
Menon, Martina, Krishna Pendakur and Federico Perali, 2012, "On the Expenditure-Dependence of Resource Shares", Economics Letters 117 (2012), pp. 739-742.
Crawford, Ian and Krishna Pendakur, 2012. "How Many Types Are There?", Economic Journal, forthcoming.
Dunbar, Geoffrey, Arthur Lewbel and Krishna Pendakur, 2012 "Children's Resources in Collective Households : Identification, Estimation and an Application to Child Poverty in Malawi" , American Economic Review, forthcoming.
Donaldson, David and Krishna Pendakur, 2012 "Index Number Tests and the Common-Scaling Cost of Living Index, Social Choice and Welfare, forthcoming.
Pendakur, Krishna and Ravi Pendakur; 2011. "Aboriginal Incomes in Canada 1995-2005", forthcoming, Canadian Public Policy.
Pendakur, Krishna and Ravi Pendakur; 2011. "Colour by Numbers: Minority Earnings", forthcoming, Journal of International Migration and Integration .
Pendakur, Krishna, Michael Scholz and Stefan Sperlich, 2010, Semiparametric Indirect Utility and Consumer Demand", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Volume 54, Issue 11, 1 November 2010, Pages 2763-2775.
Crossley, Thomas F. and Krishna Pendakur, 2010, "The Common-Scaling Social Cost of Living Index", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, October 1, 2010, 28(4): 523-538.
Haag, Berthold, Stefan Hoderlein and Krishna Pendakur, 2009, "Testing and Imposing Slutsky Symmetry in Nonparametric Demand Systems", Journal of Econometrics 153 (2009) pp. 33-50.
Pendakur, Krishna, 2009, "EASI Made Easier", in Quantifying Consumer Preferences, (Contributions in Economic Analysis Series), edited by D. Slottje, London: Emerald Group Publishing, pp 179-206.
Lewbel, Arthur and Krishna Pendakur, 2009, "Tricks with Hicks: The EASI Demand System.", American Economic Review, 99(3): 827-63.
EASI is now an official R package! It is documented at EASI package.
There are two ways to install EASI in R:
2) simply type: install.packages("easi") at the prompt.
Jacks, David and Krishna Pendakur, 2010, "Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution", Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2010, Vol. 92, No. 4, Pages 745-755.
Pendakur, Krishna, Ravi Pendakur and Simon Woodcock; 2008. "A Representation Index: Measuring the Representation of Minorities in Income Distributions", Berkeley Electronic Journal for Economic Analysis and Policy: ADVANCES
Pendakur, Krishna and Stefan Sperlich, 2010, Semiparametric Estimation of Demand Systems in Real Expenditure", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Volume 25, Issue 3, pages 420.457, April/May 2010.
Lewbel, Arthur and Krishna Pendakur, 2008, "Estimation of Collective Household Models with Engel Curves", Journal of Econometrics, Dec. 2008, 147, 350-358.
Pendakur, Krishna and Simon Woodcock, 2010 "Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors: Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Jan 2010, Vol. 28, No. 1: pp. 181-189..
Lewbel, Arthur and Krishna Pendakur, 2007 "New Palgrave (2nd Edition) entry on Equivalence Scales".
Pendakur, Krishna and Ravi Pendakur, 2007, "Colour My World", reprinted in "Interrrogating Race and Racism", Vijay Agnew (ed), University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.
Pendakur, Krishna and Ravi Pendakur; 2007. "Minority Earnings Disparity Across the Distribution", forthcoming, Canadian Public Policy
Allen, Douglas W., Krishna Pendakur and Wing Suen. 2006. "No-Fault Divorce and the Compression of Marriage Ages", Economic Inquiry, Vol 44, No 3.
Donaldson, David and Krishna Pendakur, 2006, "The Identification of Fixed Costs From Consumer Behaviour", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 24(3) pp 255-265.
Donaldson, David and Krishna Pendakur. 2005. Children's Goods and Expenditure-Dependent Equivalence Scales, Journal of Public Economics .
Pendakur, Krishna. 2005. "Semiparametric Estimation of Lifetime Child Costs". Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2005, pp. 487-507.
Crossley, Thomas and Krishna Pendakur. 2003. "Consumption Inequality". in Green, David (ed) Dimensions of Inequality in Canada, forthcoming.
Pendakur, Krishna and Ravi Pendakur. 2002. "Colour My World: Has the Minority-Majority Earnings Gaps Changed Over Time?" Canadian Public Policy December 2002, 28(4), pages 489-512.
Donaldson, David and Krishna Pendakur. 2004. Equivalent Expenditure Functions and Expenditure-Dependent Equivalence Scales, Journal of Public Economics, 88(1-2) pp 175-208.
Pendakur, Krishna. 2001. "Consumption Poverty in Canada 1969 to 1998", Canadian Public Policy, June 2001, 27(2) pages 125-149.
Pendakur, Krishna. 2001. "Taking Prices Seriously in the Measurement of Inequality", Journal of Public Economics, October 2002, 86(1), pp47-69..
Pendakur, Krishna and Ravi Pendakur. 2002. "Speaking in Tongues: Language Knowledge as Human Capital and Ethnicity" International Migration Review, Spring 2002, 36 (1), 147-178.
Pendakur, Krishna. 1999. "Estimates and Tests of Base-Independent Equivalence Scales", Journal of Econometrics 88(1), pp 1-40.
Blundell, Richard, Alan Duncan and Krishna Pendakur. 1998. "Semiparametric Estimation of Consumer Demand", Journal of Applied Econometrics 13, pp 435-461.
Pendakur, Krishna and Ravi Pendakur. 1998. The Colour of Money: Earnings Differentials Across Ethnic Groups in Canada , Canadian Journal of Economics 31(3), pp 518-548.
Pendakur, Krishna and Ravi Pendakur. 1998. Speak and Ye
Shall Receive: Language Knowledge as Human Capital, in Economic Approaches
to Language and Bilingualism (ed)
Albert Breton, Ottawa, Department of Public Works and Government Services
Canada.
Pendakur, Krishna. 1998. Changes in Canadian Family Income and Family Consumption Inequality Between 1978 and 1992, Review of Income and Wealth 44(2), pp 259-283.
Barrett, Garry and Krishna Pendakur. 1995. Asymptotic Distributions
for the Generalised Gini Family of Inequality and Welfare Indices, Canadian
Journal of Economics 28(4b), pp 1043-
1055.
Lewbel, Arthur and Krishna Pendakur, 2012, "Generalised Random Coefficients"
Pendakur, Krishna and Ravi Pendakur, 2012, "The Colour of Money Redux", and slides.
Bevelander, Pieter, Krishna Pendakur and Ravi Pendakur, 2012, Are Residential and Workplace Concentration Correlated for Immigrants?.
Javdani, Mohsen and Krishna Pendakur, 2013, Fiscal Effects of Immigrants".
Pendakur, Krishna, 2005, "Visible Minorities in Canada's Workplaces".
Pendakur, Krishna, 2005, "Visible Minorities and Aboriginals in Vancouver's Labour Market".
Pendakur, Krishna and Ravi Pendakur; 2005. "Ethnic Identity and the Labour Market".
Eaton, B. Curtis, Krishna Pendakur and Clyde Reed. 2006. "Socializing, Shared Experience and Popular Culture".