Reading assignments:
Please study the article before coming to class.
August 29: 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
August 31: Alderman, H., J. Hoddinott, and B. Kinsey."Long-term
consequences of early childhood malnutrition" Oxford Economic Papers
, 58(3) (2006), pp. 450-474 link
September 5: Jayachandran, Seema, "Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to
Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries." Journal of Political Economy
, volume 114 (2006), pp. 538-575. link
September 12: Ghatak, M; Guinnane, TW. "The economics of lending
with joint liability: theory and practice." Journal of Development
Economics 1999 OCT, V60 N1:195-228.
September 19: Kaboski, JP , RM Townsend. 2005. "Policies and Impact: An
Analysis of Village-Level Microfinance Institutions". Journal of the
European Economic Association, Vol. 3, No.1, Pages 1-50. link
September 21: 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
September 26: 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
September 28: Timothy Besley, Rohini Pande, Vijayendra Rao. 2005,
"Political Selection
and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India", Economic Growth
Center WP 921
link
October 3.
McKenzie David J. and Christopher Woodruff. 2006. "Do Entry Costs Provide and Empirical
basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises?. Economic
Development and Cultural Change, 55(1): pp. 3-42.
link
October 5: Munshi, Kaivan. (2003) "Networks
in the Modern Economy: Mexican Migrants in the U.S. Labor Market", The
Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(2): 549-599.
link
October 10: 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
October 12: Macours, Karen, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet.
2005."Insecurity of Property
Rights and Matching in the Tenancy Market". link