Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics ARE 251/Econ 270A, Fall 2004
Department of Economics Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry
University of California at Berkeley
MICROECONOMICS OF
DEVELOPMENT
List of references
for second half-semester
I. Risk
coping and risk management under imperfect credit and insurance markets
1.1. Vulnerability to shocks and consequences
Jacoby, Hanan, and E. Skoufias. "Risk, Financial Markets and Human Capital in a Developing Country." Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 64, N. 3, (1997), pp. 311-335. link
Glewwe, Paul and Gillette Hall. "Are some groups more vulnerable to macroeconomic shocks than others? Hypothesis tests based on panel data from Peru." Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 56, No. 1 (1998), pp.181-206 pdf
Dercon, Stefan. "Growth and Shocks: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia" Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 74, No. 2 (2004), pp. 309-29 pdf
Hoddinott J., and B. Kinsey. "Child Growth in the Time of Drought" Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 63(4) (2001) pp: 409-436. pdf
Alderman, H., J. Hoddinott, and B. Kinsey. "Long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition" IFPRI FCND working paper 168, December 2003 pdf
Jensen, Robert. "Agricultural Volatility and Investments in Children." American Economic Review, Vol. 90, No. 2 (May 2000), pp. 399-404 pdf
de Janvry, Alain , Frederico Finan, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Renos Vakis, "Can conditional cash transfer programs improve social risk management? Lessons for education and child labor outcomes". 2004 pdf
1.2. Consumption smoothing:
Townsend, Robert. "Risk and Insurance in Village India." Econometrica, May 1994, 62(3), pp. 539-91
Jalan, Jyotsna and Martin Ravallion. "Are the poor less well insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China." Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 58, No. 1 (1999), pp. 61-81 link
Kazianga Harounan and Christopher Udry. "Consumption Smoothing and Livestock in Rural Burkina Faso. 2004. link
1.3. Response to shocks:
Kochar, Anjini. 1999. "Smoothing Consumption by Smoothing Income: Hours of Work Responses to Idiosyncratic Agricultural Shocks in Rural India," Review of Economics and Statistics, 81: 50-61 pdf
II. Rural Financial Institutions
Ghatak, M; Guinnane, TW. "The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice." Journal of Development Economics 1999 OCT, V60 N1:195-228. pdf
Pitt, Mark, and Shahidur Khandker. " The Impact of Group Based Credit Progams on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does the Gender of Participants Matter?" Journal of Political Economy, 1998, Vol.106 No. 5, pp. 958-996 link
Coleman, Brett. "The impact of group lending in Northeast Thailand." Journal of Development Economics 1999 OCT, V60 N1:105-141.
Navajas, Sergio, Jonathan Conning, and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega. "Lending Technologies, Competition and Consolidation in the Market for Microfinance in Bolivia." Journal of International Development , Vol 15, pp. 747-770 (2003)
McIntosh, Craig, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "How Rising Competition among Microfinance Lenders Affect Incumbent Village Bank", forthcoming in Economic Journal . link
III. Local governance
3.1. Cooperation in the management of common property
resources
Baland, Jean-Marie and Jean-Philippe Platteau. 1996. Halting Degradation of Natural Resources: Is There a Role for Rural Communities? Cambridge University Press. Chapter 5 in three pieces: part 1, part 2, part 3
McCarthy, Nancy, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Alain de Janvry. 2001. "Common Pool Resource Appropriation under Costly Cooperation". Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 42: 297-309. link
Cardenas, Juan-Camilo. Real wealth and experimental cooperation: experiments in the field lab, Journal of Development Economics 70(2), (April 2003) pp. 263-289
3.2. Decentralisation
A.D. Foster and M. R. Rosenzweig, (2004) Democratization, Decentralization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy, unpublished, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Alderman, Harold. (2002). Do Local Officials Know Something We Dont? Decentralization of Targeted Transfers in Albania. Journal of Public Economics 83 375-404. link
Bardhan, Pranab and Dilip Mookherjee. (2001). Decentralizing Anti-Poverty Program Delivery in Developing Countries. Forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics link
Bardhan, Pranab and Dilip Mookherjee. (2001). "Pro-Poor Targeting and Accountability of Local Governments in West Bengal." link
Galasso, Emanuela and Martin Ravallion. (2001). Decentralized Targeting of an Anti-Poverty Program. Forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics link
J-P. Faguet, (2001) Does Decentralization Increase Government Responsiveness to Local Needs? Decentralization and Public Investment in Bolivia, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 88, Issues 3-4, March 2004, Pages 867-893 link
IV. Overview of History of Thought Development Economics
Thorbecke, Erik. 2000. "The Evolution of the Development Doctrine and the Role of Foreign Aid, 1950-2000". in Finn Tarp (ed.) Foreign Aid and Development, Taylor and Francis Group. chapter,
David Lindauer and Lant Pritchett. "What is the Big Idea? The Third Generation of Policies for Economic Growth" Economia (2002) link
Banerjee, Abhijit. "Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic Development" in Dewatripoint et al (eds) Advances in Economics and Econometrics. 2003. pdf
McKenzie David J. and Christopher Woodruff. ³Do Entry Costs Provide and Empirical basis for Poverty Traps² Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises². link
Esther Duflo and Abhijit V. Banerjee. Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program. August 2004. link
Harrison, Ann and Margaret McMillan. Does direct foreign investment affect domestic firm credit constraints?, October 2003, Journal of International Economics, Volume 61, issue 1pages 73-100. pdf
Harrison, Ann and Gunnar Eskeland. 2003. "Moving to Greener Pastures? Multinationals and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis" Journal of Development Economics, Volume 70, Issue 1, Pages 1-23. link
Verhoogen, Eric. "Trade Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector: Theory and Evidence from an Exchange Rate Shock. Jan. 2004. pdf
*Banerjee, A.V., P. Gertler and M. Ghatak (2002). " Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal". Journal of Political Economy, 110 (2). link
Besley, T. and Burgess, R. (2000). " Land Reform, Poverty and Growth: Evidence from India." Quarterly Journal of Economics, pdf
Ackerberg, D. A., and M. Botticini. 2002. "Endogenous Matching and the Empirical detreminants of Contract Form." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 564-591. pdf