Research interests:
- Economic Development - poverty reduction, access to water and sanitation, time use
- Family Economics
- Economic Geography - spatial incidence of poverty
- Poverty mapping and primary (household) data collection with focus on access to basic infrastructure.
Hailu, D. and R. Tsukada (2012) "Is the Distribution of Foreign Aid MDG-Sensitive?", DESA Working Paper No. 111, United Nations - Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Hailu, D.; S. Rendtoff-Smith and R. Tsukada (2011) "Small-Scale Water Providers in Kenya: Pioneers or Predators?", UNDP - Poverty Reduction and Environment and Energy working paper.
Tsukada, R. (2011) "The First Born Burden", Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2011 from Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics, paper n. 77.
Hailu, D. and R. Tsukada (2011) "Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: A Measure of Progress", IPC Working Paper n.78, UNDP - International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
Costa, J.; Hailu, D.; Silva, E. and R. Tsukada (2009) "The Implication of Water and Electricity Supply for the Time Allocation of Women in Rural Ghana", IPC Working Paper n.59, UNDP - International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. (updated version on request)
Bode, E.; W. Ente and R. Tsukada (2009) "The Intelectual Influence of Economics Journals: Short-Term Rankings, Long-Term Rankings and Reliability". Abstract
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"MDGs Progress in Resource Rich Developing Countries" (with D. Hailu)
"Signaling and Borrower Discrimination in the Microcredit Market: An Empirical Evidence from Hyderabad, India". Abstract
"Low Cost but High Impact: The Effect of Rainwater Harvesting on Reducing Poverty" (with C. Lehmann). Abstract
"Poverty Incidence in a Core-Periphery System: A Spatial Approach". Abstract
"Assessing the Role of Infrastructure in the Destination Choice of Migrants: The Case of the Brazilian Amazon" (with F. Teerlynck). Abstract
Paes de Barros, R.; R. Mendonça and R. Tsukada (2011) "Portas de Saída, Inclusão Produtiva e Erradicação da Extrema Pobreza no Brasil", Chamadas para Debate - Textos para Discussão, Secretaria de Assuntos Estratégicos da Presidência da República, Brasil. [eng]
Hailu, D. and R. Tsukada (2011) "Measuring MDG Achievements: Rate of Progress Matters Most", IPC-IG One Pager No. 125. Brasilia: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. [port]
Lehmann, C.; R. Tsukada and A. Lourete (2010) "Low-Cost Technologies Towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: The Case of Rainwater Harvesting", IPC-IG Policy Research Brief No. 12. Brasilia: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. [port]
Costa, J.; Hailu, D.; Silva, E. and R. Tsukada (2009) "Water Supply in Rural Ghana: Do Women Benefit?", IPC-IG One Pager No. 101. Brasilia: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. [port]
Lehmann, C. and R. Tsukada (2009) "Rainwater Infrastructure for Domestic Water Supply", Brasil & Africa Newsletter No.6. Brasilia: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
Lourete, A.; C. Lehmann and R. Tsukada (2009) "Raindrops for Education: How to Improve Water Access in Schools?", IPC-IG One Pager No. 99. Brasilia: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. [port]
Tsukada, R. and E. Silva (2009) "Age and Gender Bias in Workloads During the Lifecycle: Evidence from Rural Ghana", IPC-IG One Pager No. 88. Brasilia: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. [port] [esp]
Costa, J.; D. Hailu; E. Silva and R. Tsukada (2009) "Water Supply and Women's Time Use in Rural Ghana", in Equitable Access to Basic Utilities: Public versus Private and Beyond - Poverty in Focus No.18. Brasilia: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
Hailu, D.; R. Osorio and R. Tsukada (2009) "Water Privatisation and Renationalisation in Bolivia: Are the Poor Better Off?", IPC-IG One Pager No. 100. Brasilia: Internat. Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. [port]
Hailu, D.; R. Osorio and R. Tsukada (2009) "A 'Successful Privatisation' Was Nationalised in Bolivia. Why?", in Equitable Access to Basic Utilities: Public versus Private and Beyond - Poverty in Focus No.18. Brasilia: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
Spatial Aspects of Poverty Distribution: Frontiers of an Industrial City in the Brazilian Amazon. (M.A. thesis, University of Tsukuba, 2007)
Competição em Distritos Industriais: Limites da Interação entre Firmas na Cadeia de Suprimento de Clusters. (Undergraduate dissertation, Universidade de Brasilia, 2005.)