Reading assignments:
Please study the article before coming to class.
  • August 28: Beegle Kathleen, Rajeev H. Dehejia and Roberta Gatti. 2006. Child labor and agricultural shocks Journal of Development Economics 81(1): 80-96. link
  • August 30: 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 4: 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 6: Banerjee, Abhijit V., "Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic Development" link
  • September 11: Banerjee, Abhijit and Kaivan Munshi. "How Efficiently is Capital Allocated? Evidence from the Knitted Garment Industry in Tirupur" Review of Economic Studies 71(1): 19-42 – 2004. link
  • September 13: Ghatak, M; Guinnane, TW. "The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice." Journal of Development Economics 1999 OCT, V60 N1:195-228. link
  • September 18: Gine, Xavier, and Dean Karlan, "Group versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines (May 2007), link
  • September 20: 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 25: 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 27: 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 2. Mishra, Prachi (2007) "Effect of Emigration on Wages in Developing Countries: Evidence from Mexicoâ" Journal of Development Economics 82: 180-199 link
  • October 4: 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 9: Jacoby H.G.; Li G.; Rozelle S. (2002). "Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural Chinaâ" The American Economic Review, 92(5) pp. 1420-1447. link
  • October 11: Macours, Karen, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2007."Insecurity of Property Rights and Matching in the Tenancy Market". link