Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics ARE 251/Econ 270A, Fall 2008
Department of Economics Elisabeth Sadoulet
University of California at Berkeley
MICROECONOMICS OF
DEVELOPMENT
List of references
for first half-semester
I.
Vulnerability to Shocks and Consequences
Akresh,, Richard; Verwimp, Philip; Bundervoet, Tom; Civil war,
crop failure, and child stunting in Rwanda World Bank Policy Research Working
Paper 4208. April 2007 link
Alderman, H., J. Hoddinott, and B. Kinsey."Long-term
consequences of early childhood malnutrition" Oxford Economic Papers, 58(3) (2006), pp. 450-474 link
Beegle Kathleen, Rajeev H. Dehejia and Roberta Gatti.
2006. Child labor and agricultural shocks Journal of Development Economics, 81(1):
80-96. link
de Janvry, Alain, 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
Dercon, Stefan. "Growth and Shocks: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia" Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 74, No. 2 (2004), pp. 309-29 link
Duryea, Suzanne, David Lam and Deborah Levison. 2007. Effects of economic shocks on children's employment and schooling in Brazil. Journal of Development Economics, 84(1): 188-214. link
Jayachandran, Seema, ÒSelling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries.Ó Journal of Political Economy, volume 114 (2006), pp. 538–575. link
Jensen, Robert. "Agricultural Volatility and Investments in Children." American Economic Review, Vol. 90, No. 2 (May 2000), pp. 399-404 pdf
Kochar,
Anjini. ÒSmoothing Consumption by Smoothing Income: Hours-of-Work Responses to
Idiosyncratic Agricultural Shocks in Rural India.Ó Review of Economics and
Statistics (1999), Vol.
81, No. 1: 50-61. link
Maccini,
Sharon and Dean Yang. 2008 Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic
Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall, American Economic Review, forthcoming. link,
Banerjee,
Abhijit V., "Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic
Development" (September 2001).
in Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and
Applications, Eighth World Congress, Volume III. Edited by Mathias Dewatripont,
Lars Peter Hansen and Stephen J. Turnovsky. Cambridge University Press. link
Banerjee, Abhijit and Kaivan Munshi. ÒHow Efficiently is Capital Allocated? Evidence from the Knitted Garment Industry in Tirupur Review of Economic Studies 71(1): 19-42 – 2004. link
de Mel, Suresh, David McKenzie, and Christopher Woodruff. 2008. ÒReturns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment.Ó Unpublished manuscript, World Bank and University of California, San Diego. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS 4230
Duflo, Esther and Abhijit V. Banerjee. Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program. (revised 2008).link
Edmonds, Erik. 2006. ÒChild labor and schooling responses
to anticipated income in South AfricaÓ. Journal of Development Economics 81 (2006) 386– 414. link
Gertler, Paul, Sebastian Martinez, and Marta Rubio-Codina.
2006. ÒInvesting Cash Transfers to Raise Long Term Living StandardsÓ, World
Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS
3994
McKenzie David J. and Christopher Woodruff. 2006. ÒDo Entry Costs Provide and Empirical basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican MicroenterprisesÓ. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 55(1): 3-42 link
Mesnard, Alice and with M. Ravallion. ÒThe Wealth Effect
on New Business Startups in a Developing EconomyÓ, Economica, Vol.73(291): 367-92, 2006. link
Woodruff Christopher and Rene Zenteno. ÒMigration networks
and microenterprises in MexicoÓ.
Journal of Development Economics,
Volume 82, Issue 2, March 2007, Pages 509-528. link
III. Rural Financial Institutions
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 . See comments by Guttman, Joel M. Assortative matching, adverse selection, and group lending. Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming. link
Ahlin, Christian, Robert M. Townsend (2007) Using Repayment Data to Test Across
Models of Joint Liability Lending*
The Economic Journal 117 (517),
F11–F51. link
Aubert, Cecile, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2005. "Incentives with Non-Profit Objectives: Microfinance Agents and the Selection of Very Poor Borrowers" link
Cotler, Pablo, and Christopher Woodruff. ÒThe Impact of
Short-Term Credit on Microenterprises: Evidence from the Fincomun-Bimbo Program
in Mexico,Ó Economic Development and Cultural Change. 56(4):829–849, 2008.
Field, Erica and Rohini Pande. 2007 ÒRepayment Frequency
and Default in Micro-Finance: Evidence from IndiaÓ link
Gine, Xavier, and Dean Karlan, ÒGroup versus Individual
Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines (May 2007), link Revised version is Òpeer
Monitoring and Enforcement: Long Term Ecidence from Microcredit Lending Groups
with and without Group Liability (2008), link
Karlan, Dean. 2007. ÒSocial Connections and Group
Banking,Ó Economic Journal, 117, pp.
F52-F84.link
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
Morduch, Jonathan. 1998. "Does Microfinance Really Help the Poor? New Evidence on Flagship Programs in Bangladesh" (PDF), June 1998. link
Pitt, Mark, and Shahidur Khandker. " The Impact of Group Based Credit Programs on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does the Gender of Participants Matter?" Journal of Political Economy, 1998, Vol.106 No. 5, pp. 958-996 link
Sajeda Amin, Ashok S. Rai and Giorgio Topa. 2003.
Does microcredit reach the poor and vulnerable? Evidence from northern
Bangladesh Journal of
Development Economics, 70(1): 59-82. link
Tedeschi, Gwendolyn Alexander. 2006. ÒHere today, gone
tomorrow: Can dynamic incentives make microfinance more flexible?Ó Journal
of Development Economics, 80(1), pp.
84-105 link
Alderman, Harold. (2002). Do Local Officials Know Something We Dont? Decentralization of Targeted Transfers in Albania. Journal of Public Economics 83 375-404. link
Bardhan, Pranab and Dilip Mookherjee. (2005). Decentralizing Anti-Poverty Program Delivery in Developing Countries. Journal of Public Economics 89 (4) 675– 704 link
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
Bardhan, Pranab and Dilip Mookherjee. 2006. "Decentralisation and Accountability In Infrastructure Delivery In Developing Countries". The Economic Journal, 116 (508), 101–127. link
Besley, Timothy , Rohini Pande, Vijayendra Rao. 2005, "Political Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India", Economic Growth Center WP 921 link
Besley, Timothy, Rohini Pande, Lupin Rahman, Vijayendra Rao. 2004. "The Politics of Public Good Provision: Evidence from Indian Local Governments", Journal of the European Economics Association Papers and Proceedings Vol. 2 (2-3), pp 416-426.
de Janvry, Alain , Frederico Finan, and Elisabeth Sadoulet . 2008. ÒLocal Electoral Accountability and Decentralized Program PerformanceÓ. link
Faguet, J-P. 2004. Does Decentralization Increase Government Responsiveness to Local Needs? Decentralization and Public Investment in Bolivia, Journal of Public Economics, 88 (3-4): 867-893 link
Foster, Andrew and M. R. Rosenzweig, (2004) Democratization, Decentralization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy, unpublished, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Galasso,
Emanuela and Martin Ravallion. (2005). Decentralized Targeting of an
Anti-Poverty Program. Journal of Public Economics 89(4): 705 link
Galiani,
Sebastian, Paul Gertler, Ernesto Schargrodsky, ÒSchool Decentralization:
Helping the Good get Better, but Leaving the Poor BehindÓ, Journal of Public
Economics In
Press. link
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
Cortes Patricia (2008). ÒThe Effect of Low-Skilled
immigration on U.S. prices:
Evidence from the CPI Data.Ó Journal of Political Economy 116(3): 381-422
Hanson, Gordon H. and Antonio Spilimbergo (1999) ÒIllegal
Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from
Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico BorderÓ, The American Economic Review 89(5): 1337-57.
Hanson, Gordon H., Raymond Robertson and Antonio
Spilimbergo (2002) ÒDoes Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers from Illegal
Immigration?Ó, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 84(1): 73-92.
McKenzie David and Hillel Rapoport. Network effects and
the dynamics of migration and inequality: Theory and evidence from Mexico. Journal of Development Economics 84 (2007) 1–24. link
Munshi, Kaivan. (2003) ÒNetworks
in the Modern Economy: Mexican Migrants in the U.S. Labor MarketÓ, The
Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(2):
549-599. link
Mishra, Prachi (2007) ÒEffect of Emigration on Wages in
Developing Countries: Evidence from MexicoÓ Journal of Development Economics, 82: 180-199 link
Woodruff Christopher and Rene Zenteno. 2007. ÒMigration
networks and microenterprises in Mexico.Ó Journal of Development Economics, 82:
509–528 link
Yang,
Dean. 2008. ÒInternational Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment:
Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks.Ó The Economic
Journal, Vol. 118: 591-630 link
Yang, Dean and
HwaJung Choi. 2007. ÒAre Remittances
Insurance? Evidence from Rainfall Shocks in the Philippines" The
World Bank Economic Review, 21 (2):
219-248. link
On network identification see work by Steve Durlauf at Wisconsin
Bandiera, Oriana. 2007. "Land Tenure, Investment
Incentives, and the Choice of Techniques: Evidence from Nicaragua" The
World Bank Economic Review, 21 (3): 487-508
link
Besley,
Timothy. 1995. Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence
from Ghana. The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 103, No. 5. pp. 903-937.link
Deininger, Klaus and Songqing Jin. 2006. ÒTenure security and land-related investment: Evidence from EthiopiaÒ. European Economic Review 50(5), pp. 1245-1277 link
Gershon Feder; Tongroj Onchan; Yongyuth Chalamwong. 1988. ÒLand Policies and Farm Performance in Thailand's Forest Reserve Areas.Ó Economic Development and Cultural Change, 36(3) : 483-501.
Gine, Xavier, 2005. Cultivate or Rent out? Land Security
in Rural Thailand, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS 3734. link.
Jacoby H.G., Li G., and Rozelle S. (2002).
ÒHazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural ChinaÓ. The
American Economic Review, 92(5) pp.
1420-1447. link
Jacoby H.G. and Bart Minten. 2007. Is Land Titling in
Sub-Saharan Africa Cost-Effective? Evidence from Madagascar " The World
Bank Economic Review, 21 (3): 461-485 link
Jacoby, Hanan, and Ghazala Mansuri. 2008. ÒLand Tenancy and Non-Contractible Investment in Rural Pakistan.Ó Review of Economic Studies. 75(3): 763 – 788. link
Macours, Karen, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2007. "Insecurity of Property Rights and Matching in the Tenancy Market". link