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First half of the course, taught by Elisabeth Sadoulet

Second half of the course, taught by Ethan Ligon

New Exams

Final, Fall 2007

Old Exams

Final, 2006

Assignments

Assignment 3

• vlss_extract.txt (Subsample of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey)
  
• vlss_readme.txt (Documentation for VLSS Subsample)
  

Reading List

Poverty

• "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.
  

Inequality

• "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.
  

Measuring Risk

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.
  

Credit and Risk

Risk sharing

• "Risk sharing", Ethan Ligon, New Palgrave's Dictionary of Economics, in press.
  
• "[[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0012-9682%28199405%2962%3A3%3C539%3ARAIIVI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9]["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
  
  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.

Author: Ethan Ligon <ligon@are.berkeley.edu>

Date: 2007/12/12 10:32:21 PM