READINGS FOR MICROECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT
Agricultural and Resource Economics 251 
Economics 270A 
Fall 2006


Poverty

  • A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures, James Foster, Joel Greer and Erik Thorbecke, Econometrica, Vol. 52, No. 3. (May, 1984), pp. 761-766.
  • On the Measurement of Poverty, A. B. Atkinson, Econometrica, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Jul., 1987), pp. 749-764.
  • Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement, Amartya Sen, Econometrica, Vol. 44, No. 2. (Mar., 1976), pp. 219-231.
  • Poor, Relatively Speaking, Amartya Sen, Oxford Economic Papers New Series, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Jul., 1983), pp. 153-169.

    • Inequality

  • On the measurement of inequality, Anthony B. Atkinson, Journal of Economic Theory 1970; 2: 244-263.
  • Measuring Social Welfare With and Without Poverty Lines, Martin Ravallion, American Economic Review 1994; Vol. 84(2):359-364.
  • Inequality among World Citizens: 1820-1992, François Bourguignon; Christian Morrisson, American Economic Review 2002; Vol. 92(4):727-744.

    • Intra-household allocations

  • The Empirical Content of Nash-Bargained Household Behavior, Marjorie B. McElroy, Journal of Human Resources 1990; 25(4):559-583.
  • Intra-Household Resource Allocation: An Inferential Approach, Duncan Thomas, Journal of Human Resources 1990; 25(4):635-664.
  • Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage, Shelly Lundberg; Robert A. Pollak, Journal of Economic Perspectives 1996; 10(4):139-158.
  • Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices, Esther Duflo and Christopher Udry, 2004; NBER Working Paper 10498.

    • Risk-sharing

  • Risk sharing, Ethan Ligon, New Palgrave's Dictionary of Economics, in press.
  • Risk and Insurance in Village India, Robert M. Townsend, Econometrica, 1994; 62(3):539-591.

    • Contracts and Tenancy

  • Testing between Competing Models of Sharecropping, Radwan Ali Shaban, The Journal of Political Economy, 95(5) (Oct., 1987), pp. 893-920.
  • Moral Hazard and Observability, Bengt Holmstrom, The Bell Journal of Economics, Vol. 10, No. 1. (Spring, 1979), pp. 74-91.
  • Risk-sharing and Information in Village Economies, Ethan Ligon, The Review of Economic Studies, 1998, 65(4):847-864.
    • Last update: November 21, 2006