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
  • September 2: Maccini, Sharon and Dean Yang. 2008 "Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall," American Economic Review forthcoming. 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 9: Banerjee, Abhijit V., "Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic Development" Sections 1-3. 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 16: Gine, Xavier, and Dean Karlan, "Group versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines (May 2007), link
  • September 18: 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 23: Alderman, Harold. (2002). Do Local Officials Know Something We Dont? Decentralization of Targeted Transfers in Albania. n Journal of Public Economics 83 375-404. link
  • September 25: Galiani, Sebastian, Paul Gertler, Ernesto Schargrodsky, "School Decentralization: Helping the Good get Better, but Leaving the Poor Behind" Journal of Public Economics In Press > link
  • September 30. Mishra, Prachi (2007) "Effect of Emigration on Wages in Developing Countries: Evidence from Mexicoâ" Journal of Development Economics 82: 180-199 link
  • October 2: 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 7: 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