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Dang Hai Anh

Dang Hai Anh, PhD

College of Arts and Sciences

Visiting Scholar

Biography

Dr. Dang is a Senior Economist in the Data Analytics Unit, Development Data Group, World Bank.  He has published 60 peer-reviewed papers in various leading journals, including Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Lancet Psychiatry,  Nature Climate Change, and Scientific Data.  His research focuses on international development, poverty, inequality, climate change, and data imputation methods.

According to RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), one of the world’s largest databases for economic research, Dr. Dang is ranked among the top 5% of economists overall (and within the top 2% over the past decade). His works have received more than 9,000 Google Scholar citations.

He has held visiting and senior fellowships at several prominent institutions, including IZA (Institute of Labor Economics, Germany), the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Beijing Normal University (China),  Singapore Management University (Singapore), and Monash University (Australia).

He has delivered graduate-level lectures on international development at Georgetown University and Indiana University. He currently serves as an associate editor of Journal of Economic Surveys and on the editorial boards of several other journals. He received his B.A. in International Economics from Foreign Trade University (Hanoi, Vietnam) and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (USA).

  • Poverty and inequality
  • International development
  • Climate change
  • Household survey
  • Data imputation

  • Poverty and inequality
  • International development
  • Climate change
  • Data imputation

  1. Dang, Hai-Anh, Stephane Hallegatte, Minh Cong Nguyen, and Trong-Anh Trinh. (2025). “Impacts of Global Warming on Subnational Poverty and Inequality.” Nature Climate Change.
  2. Steare, Thomas, Kelly Rose-Clarke, Mesele Araya, Santiago Cueto, Hai-Anh H. Dang, Revathi Ellanki, Sara Evans-Lacko, Gemma Hammerton, Gemma Lewis, Workneh Yadete, and Praveetha Patalay. (forthcoming). “Adolescents’ relationships with their parents and peers as mediators between economic circumstances and emotional symptoms: a multi-country longitudinal analysis.” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
  3. Dang, Hai-Anh, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Minh Do. (forthcoming). “The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran”. Middle East Development Journal.
  4. Dang, Hai-Anh, Talip Kilic, Vladimir Hlasny, Kseniya Abanokova, and Calogero Carletto. (forthcoming). “Using Survey-to-Survey Imputation to Fill Poverty Data Gaps at a Low Cost: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment.” World Bank Economic Review.
  5. AlAzzawi, Shireen, Hai-Anh Dang, Vladimir Hlasny, Kseniya Abanokova, and Jere Behrman. (2025). “Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Taxonomy”. Social Indicators Research, 180(2), 1067–1202 (Special issue).
  6. Dang, Hai-Anh, Shatakshee Dhongde, Minh N. N. Do, Cuong Viet Nguyen, and Obert Pimhidzai. (2025). “Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?” Review of Development Economics, 29(4), 2063-2075 (Special issue).
  7. Dang, Hai-Anh, Calogero Carletto, and Dean Jolliffe. (2025). “Better Tracking SDG Progress with Fewer Resources? A Call for More Innovative Data Uses”. World Development Perspectives, 39, 100721.
  8. Dang, Hai-Anh, Minh N. N. Do, and Cuong Viet Nguyen. (2025). “The Impacts of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Children’s Education Outcomes: Evidence from Viet Nam”. Economics of Education Review, 106, 102656 (Special issue).
  9. Sarr, Ibrahima, Hai-Anh Dang, Carlos Santiago Guzman Gutierrez, Theresa Beltramo, and Paolo Verme. (2025). “Using Cross-Survey Imputation to Estimate Poverty for Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia”. Social Indicators Research, 177(1), 207–251.
  10. Dang, Hai-Anh, Talip Kilic, Kseniya Abanokova, and Calogero Carletto. (2025). “Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data: A Revisit with Further Refinements.” Review of Income and Wealth, 71(1), e12714. (Special issue).
  11. Dang, Hai-Anh, Gbemisola Oseni, and Kseniya Abanokova. (2025). “Educational Inequalities during COVID-19: Results from Longitudinal Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa.” International Journal of Educational Development, 112, 103174.
  12. Dang, Hai-Anh, Stephane Hallegatte, and Trong-Anh Trinh. (2024). “Does Global Warming Worsen Poverty and Inequality? An Updated Review”. Journal of Economic Surveys, 38(5), 1873-1905.
  13. Steare, Thomas, Sara Evans-Lacko, Mesele Araya, Santiago Cueto, Hai-Anh Dang, Revathi Ellanki, Emily Garman, Gemma Lewis, Kelly Rose-Clarke, Praveetha Patalay. (2024). “Economic inequalities in adolescents’ internalising symptoms: longitudinal evidence from eight countries”. Lancet Psychiatry, 11(11), 890-898.
  14. Dang, Hai-Anh, Dhushyanth Raju, Tomomi Tanaka, and Kseniya Abanokova. (2024). “Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17: An Investigation Using Synthetic Panels”. Scientific African, 25, e02282.
  15. Dang, Hai-Anh, Dean Jolliffe, Umar Serajuddin, and Brian Stacy. (2024). “Country Statistical Capacity: A Recent Assessment Tool and Further Reflections on the Way Forward”. Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 40(2), 211–225.
  16. Beltramo, Theresa, Hai-Anh Dang, Ibrahima Sarr, and Paolo Verme. (2024). “Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad”. Oxford Development Studies, 52(1), 94–113.
  17. Dang, Hai-Anh, Toan Huynh, and Manh-Hung Nguyen. (2024). “Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Disproportionately Affect the Poor? Evidence from a Six-Country Survey“. Journal of Economics and Development, 26(1), 2-18.
  18. Dang, Hai-Anh, Kseniya Abanokova and Michael Lokshin. (2023). “Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2019”. Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics, 247(4), 125-153. (Special Issue).
  19. Dang, Hai-Anh, Trong-Anh Trinh, and Paolo Verme. (2023). “Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate?  Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey.” Health Economics, 32(12), 2819-2835.
  20. Dang, Hai-Anh, Paul Glewwe, Jongwook Lee and Khoa Vu. (2023). “What Explains Vietnam’s Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries? Analysis of the 2012, 2015 and 2018 PISA Data”. Economics of Education Review, 96, 102434.
  21. Dang, Hai-Anh, and Peter Lanjouw. (2023). “Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Cross-Sections”. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 85(3), 599-622.
  22. Dang, Hai-Anh, John Pullinger, Umar Serajuddin, and Brian Stacy. (2023). “Statistical Performance Indicators and Index: A New Tool to Measure Country Statistical Capacity”. Scientific Data, 10, 146. (media coverage: Trade for Development blog; Data blog 1, 2, 3; TReND blog; Development Asia blog)
  23. Dang, Hai-Anh and Paolo Verme. (2023). “Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations: Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?” Journal of Population Economics, 36(2), 653– 679.
  24. Nakamura, Shohei, Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh Dang, Shinya Takamatsu, Chunchen Pei, Dilou Prospere. (2023). “Is Climate Change Slowing the Urban Escalator out of Poverty? Evidence from Chile, Colombia, and Indonesia”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20, 4865.
  25. Dang, Hai-Anh, Cuong Viet Nguyen, and Calogero Carletto. (2023). “Did a Successful Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic Come at a Cost? Impacts of the Outbreak on Employment Outcomes in Vietnam”. World Development, 161, 106129.

  • 2007: Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities, USA)
  • 2000: B.E. in International Economics, Foreign Trade University (Hanoi, Vietnam)

SELECTED EDITORIAL POSITIONS:

  • 2026- present: Editorial Board, Review of Development Economics
  • 2026- present: Editorial Board, Scientific Data
  • 2024-present: Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Surveys
  • 2024- present: Editorial Board, Review of Income and Wealth
  • 2023- present: Editorial Board, Journal of Economics and Development
  • 2020- present: Editorial Board, Economic Change and Structuring
  • 2018-present: Editorial Board, International Journal of Education Development
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