Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics                                                                                               ARE 251/Econ 270A, Fall 2003
Department of Economics                                                                                                                                                  Jean Lanjouw
University of California at Berkeley
 
 

MICROECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT
List of references for second half-semester

Lanjouw, Peter, and Nicholas Stern. 1991. "Poverty in Palanpur," World Bank Economic Review Vol. 5, no 1. pp. 23-55. Journal's here: note you only need part!

Chen, Marty, and Dreze, Jean. "Widows and Well-being in Rural North India." Development Economics Programme, Working Paper #40, London School of Economics (1992) pdf's here

Elbers, Chris, J.O. Lanjouw and Peter Lanjouw. 2003. "Micro-Level Estimation of Poverty and Inequality," Econometrica. Vol 71(1), p. 355-64. pdf's here

McKenzie, David J. 2003. "Measuring Inequality with Asset Indicators," BREAD Working Paper no. 042. pdf's here, eh?

Coate, Steven and Timothy Besley. 1992. "Workfare vs. Welfare Incentive Arguments for Work Requirements in Poverty-Alleviation Programs," AER 82(1) 249-61. Not Tom Bosley, Tim Besley: click here

Jacoby, Hanan. 1997. "Self-selection and the Redistributive Impact of In-kind Transfers- an Econometric Approach," Journal of Human Resources 32(2) 233-49. Jacoby paper in PDF

"A Guide to LSMS Surveys and their data sets" (A basic intro to LSMS: history, etc. WB working paper, 1995)

Howes & J. Lanjouw on sampling errors: WB working paper #129, 1997

"A Manual for Planning and Implementing the LSMS Survey" (Grosh & Munoz's 300+ page monstrosity on LSMS' sampling techniques, among other things- WB working paper #126, 1996)

1993 Nicaragua LSMS documentation, including how the poverty line was obtained

Eswaran & Kotwal. 1985. "A Theory of Contractual Structure in Agriculture." AER 75(3) 352-67.

R. Shaban. 1987. "Testing between comparative models of sharecropping," JPE 95(5) 893-920.

J.O. Lanjouw. 1999. "Information and the Operation of Markets: Tests Based on a GE Model of Land Leasing in India," J Dev Econ 60(22) 492-528.

Banerjee, Gertler & Ghatak. 2002. "Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal," JPE 110(2) 239-280.

E. Field. 2002. "Entitled to Work: Urban Property Rights and Labor Supply in Peru", Princeton Univ. Working Paper.

J. Lanjouw & P. Levy. 2002. "Untitled: A Study of Formal and Informal Property Rights in Urban Ecuador." The Economic Journal, 112 (October): 986-1019.

Jacoby, Li, & Rozelle. 2002. "Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity & Investment in Rural China." UC Davis Working Paper 02-007.

First Kremer paper

Second Kremer paper