Reading assignments:
Please study the article before coming to class.
October 21: Dercon, Stefan. "Growth and Shocks: Evidence from Rural
Ethiopia" Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 74, No. 2 (2004), pp. 309-29 pdf
October 26: 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
October 28: 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
November 2: Ghatak, M; Guinnane, TW. "The economics of lending
with joint liability: theory and practice." Journal of Development
Economics1999 OCT, V60 N1:195-228.
pdf
November 4: 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
November 9: McIntosh, Craig, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet.
"How Rising Competition among Microfinance Lenders Affect Incumbent
Village Bank", forthcoming in Economic Journal link
November 16: Alderman, Harold. (2002). "Do Local Officials Know
Something We Dont? Decentralization of Targeted Transfers in Albania."
Journal of Public Economics 83 375-404.
pdf
November 18: J-P. Faguet, 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
November 23: 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
November 30: handout on theories of sharecropping.
pdf
December 2:
Besley, T. and Burgess, R. (2000): Land Reform, Poverty and Growth: Evidence
from India Quarterly Journal of Economics
pdf
December 7: Discussion on the rental market model formulations. Read one
example of such a formulation (by no means the only one):
"Insecurity of Property Rights and Matching in the Tenancy Market".
Karen Macours, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. August 2004.
paper
December 9: McKenzie David J. and Christopher Woodruff.
"Do Entry Costs Provide and Empirical basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from
Mexican Microenterprises". link