Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics ARE 251/Econ 270A, Fall 2006
Department of Economics Elisabeth Sadoulet
University of California at Berkeley
MICROECONOMICS OF
DEVELOPMENT
List of references
for first half-semester
I.
Vulnerability to Shocks and Consequences
Alain de Janvry, Frederico Finan, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Renos Vakis. 2006. "Can Conditionnal Cash Transfers Serve as Safety Nets in Keeping Children at School and from Working when Exposed to Shocks?" Journal of Development Economics, 79(2): 349-373. link
Alderman, H., J. Hoddinott, and B. Kinsey."Long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition" Oxford Economic Papers, 58(3) (2006), pp. 450-474 link
Dercon, Stefan. "Growth and Shocks: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia" Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 74, No. 2 (2004), pp. 309-29 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
Hoddinott J., and B. Kinsey. "Child Growth in the Time of Drought" Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 63(4) (2001) pp: 409-436.
Jayachandran, Seema, ÒSelling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries.Ó Journal of Political Economy, volume 114 (2006), pp. 538Ð575. link
Jensen, Robert. "Agricultural Volatility and Investments in Children." American Economic Review, Vol. 90, No. 2 (May 2000), pp. 399-404 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.
Tedeschi, Gwendolyn Alexander. 2006. ÒHere today, gone
tomorrow: Can dynamic incentives make microfinance more flexible?Ó Journal
of Development Economics, 80(1), pp.
84-105 link
Sajeda Amin, Ashok S. Rai and Giorgio Topa. Does
microcredit reach the poor and vulnerable? Evidence from northern
Bangladesh Journal of
Development Economics, 70(1), February 2003, Pages 59-82. link
Coleman, Brett E. The impact of group lending in Northeast
Thailand Journal of
Development Economics, 60(1), 1999,
pp. 105-141. link
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
Morduch, Jonathan. 1998. "Does Microfinance Really Help the Poor? New Evidence on Flagship Programs in Bangladesh" (PDF), June 1998. link
Kaboski, JP , RM Townsend. 2005. ÒPolicies and Impact: An
Analysis of Village-Level Microfinance InstitutionsÓ. Journal of the
European Economic Association, Vol. 3, No.
1, Pages 1-50. link
Karlan, Dean. 2006. ÒSocial Connections and Group Banking,Ó link
Gine, Xavier, and Dean Karlan, ÒGroup versus Individual
Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines (April, 2006), link
Cecile Aubert, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2005. "Incentives with Non-Profit Objectives: Microfinance Agents and the Selection of Very Poor Borrowers" link
McIntosh, Craig, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "How Rising Competition among Microfinance Lenders Affect Incumbent Village Bank", The Economic Journal (2005) 115(506). Pp. 987. link
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.
Bardhan, Pranab and Dilip Mookherjee. (2005). Decentralizing Anti-Poverty Program Delivery in Developing Countries. Journal of Public Economics 89 (4) 675Ð 704 link
Bardhan, Pranab and Dilip Mookherjee. (2006). Pro-Poor Targeting and Accountability of Local Governments in West Bengal. Journal of Development Economics Vol 79, pp. 303-27. link
Bardhan, Pranab and Dilip Mookherjee. 2006. "Decentralisation and Accountability In Infrastructure Delivery In Developing Countries". The Economic Journal, 116 (508), 101Ð127. link
Galasso, Emanuela and Martin Ravallion. (2005). Decentralized Targeting of an Anti-Poverty Program. Journal of Public Economics 89(4): 705 link
J-P. Faguet, 2004. Does Decentralization Increase Government Responsiveness to Local Needs? Decentralization and Public Investment in Bolivia, Journal of Public Economics, 88 (3-4): 867-893 link
Timothy Besley, Rohini Pande, Lupin Rahman, Vijayendra Rao. 2004. "The Politics of Public Good Provision: Evidence from Indian Local Governments", Journal of the European Economics Association Papers and Proceedings Vol. 2 (2-3), pp 416-426.
Timothy Besley, Rohini Pande, Vijayendra Rao. 2005, "Political Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India", Economic Growth Center WP 921 link
McKenzie David J. and Christopher Woodruff. 2006. ÒDo Entry Costs Provide and Empirical basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican MicroenterprisesÓ. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 55(1): 3-42 link
Esther Duflo and Abhijit V. Banerjee. Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program. August 2004. link
Banerjee, Abhijit and Kaivan Munshi. ÒHow Efficiently is Capital Allocated? Evidence from the Knitted Garment Industry in Tirupur Review of Economic Studies 71(1): 19-42 Ð 2004. link
Banerjee,
Abhijit V., "Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic
Development" (September 2001).
in Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and
Applications, Eighth World Congress, Volume III. Edited by Mathias Dewatripont,
Lars Peter Hansen and Stephen J. Turnovsky. Cambridge University Press. link
Chiquiar Daniel and Gordon Hanson. 2005.
"International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of
Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States," Journal of
Political Economy, 113(2): 239-281.link
Munshi, Kaivan. (2003) ÒNetworks in the Modern Economy: Mexican Migrants in the U.S. Labor MarketÓ, The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(2): 549-599. link
Hanson, Gordon H. and Antonio Spilimbergo (1999) ÒIllegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico BorderÓ, The American Economic Review 89(5): 1337-57.
Hanson, Gordon H., Raymond Robertson and Antonio Spilimbergo (2002) ÒDoes Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers from Illegal Immigration?Ó, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 84(1): 73-92.
Mishra, Prachi (2003) ÒEffect of Emigration on Wages in
Developing Countries: Evidence from MexicoÓ forthcoming in Journal of
Development Economics, link
Woodruff Christopher and Rene Zenteno. 2006. ÒMigration networks and microenterprises in Mexico.Ó Forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics, link
Yang, Dean. 2005. ÒInternational Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine MigrantsÕ Exchange Rate ShocksÓ link
McKenzie David
J. 2005. ÒBeyond remittances: The
effects of Migration on Mexican households.Ó In Maurice Schiff and Caglar Ozden
(eds). International Migration, Remittances and the Brain Drain. MacMillan
and World Bank. link
Besley,
Timothy. 1995. Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence
from Ghana. The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 103, No. 5. pp. 903-937.link
Gershon Feder; Tongroj Onchan; Yongyuth Chalamwong. 1988. ÒLand Policies and Farm Performance in Thailand's Forest Reserve Areas.Ó Economic Development and Cultural Change, 36(3) : 483-501.
Jacoby H.G.; Li G.; Rozelle S. (2002). ÒHazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural ChinaÓ. The American Economic Review, 92(5) pp. 1420-1447. link
Gine, Xavier, 2004. Land security in rural Thailand:
evidence from a property rights reform, mimeo, The World Bank. link.
Macours, Karen, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2005. "Insecurity of Property Rights and Matching in the Tenancy Market". link
Deininger, Klaus and Songqing Jin. 2006. ÒTenure security and land-related investment: Evidence from EthiopiaÒ. European Economic Review 50(5), pp. 1245-1277 link