ARE 251

Second half of the course, taught by Ethan Ligon

"The Development of the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds and Their Subsequent History as the Official U.S. Poverty Measure," Gordon Fisher (1997).
"Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement," Amartya Sen, Econometrica, Vol. 44, No. 2. (Mar., 1976), pp. 219-231.
"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.
"Poor, Relatively Speaking," Amartya Sen, Oxford Economic Papers New Series, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Jul., 1983), pp. 153-169.

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

"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", 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.
"Solidarity Networks in Preindustrial Societies: Rational Peasants with a Moral Economy", Marcel Fafchamps, Economic Development and Cultural Change (1992) 41(1):147-174

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First half of the course, taught by Elisabeth Sadoulet