Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics ARE 251/Econ 270A, Fall 2009
Department of Economics Elisabeth Sadoulet
University of California at Berkeley
MICROECONOMICS OF
DEVELOPMENT
Draft for list of
references for second half-semester
THIS WILL BE
UPDATED AND AVAILABLE ON THE WEB SITE AS THE SEMESTER UNFOLDS
(This includes all
papers referred to in class, required readings marked with *)
*Banerjee,
Abhijit V., "Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic
Development". 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. 2004. 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 – 2005. link
Hsieh, Chang-Tai and Peter Klenow. Misallocation and
Manufacturing TFP in China and India,Ó Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming pdf
*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.
Duflo, Esther and Abhijit V. Banerjee. Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program. (revised 2008).link
Yang, Dean. International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks, The Economic Journal, Vol. 118, April 2008, pp. 591-630. 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
II.
Consequences of shocks and risks
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
*Bundervoet,
Tom, Philip Verwimp, and Richard Akresh. Health and Civil War in
Rural Burundi, Journal of Human Resources,
Spring 2009, 44(2), 536-563pdf
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. 2009. ÒFate and Fear: Risk and its Consequences in AfricaÓ Journal
of African Economies. 17(Supp. 2) pp:
97-127. Forthcoming.
*Fafchamps, Marcel, Jan Willem Gunning, and Remco
Ostendorp. 2000. ÒInventories and Risk in African ManufacturingÓ. The
Economic Journal, 110: 861-93. 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
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. 2009 Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic
Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall, American Economic Review, 99(3): 1006-1026. link
III. Rural Financial Institutions
*de Janvry, Alain, Craig McIntosh, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2009. "The Supply and Demand Side Impacts of Credit Market Information" Forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics link
*Ghatak, M; Guinnane, TW. "The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice." Journal of Development Economics 1999, 60(1):195-228. link . See comments by Guttman, Joel M. 2008 Assortative matching, adverse selection, and group lending. Journal of Development Economics, 87(1):51-56. link
*Gine, Xavier, and Dean Karlan, Group versus Individual
Liability: Long Term Evidence from Philippine Microcredit Lending Groups (May
2009), 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. 2009."Designing Credit Agent Incentives to Prevent Mission Drift in Pro-Poor Microfinance Institutions" Journal of Development Economics 90(1): 153-162. pdf
Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Dfflo Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia
Kinnan. ÒThe miracle of microfinance? Evidence from a randomized evaluationÓ. J-PAL Working Paper, 2009 - povertyactionlab.org
Field, Erica and Rohini Pande. 2007 ÒRepayment Frequency
and Default in Micro-Finance: Evidence from IndiaÓ forthcoming Journal of
European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings link
Karlan, Dean and Jonathan Morduch Access to Finance in Handbook of Development Economics, Dani Rodrik and Mark Rozensweig, eds.
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
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
Xavier Gine, Pamela Jakiela, Dean Karlan, and Jonathan
Morduch . Microfinance Games (May 2009) American Economic Journal: Applied
Economics, forthcoming 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. (2006). Pro-Poor Targeting and Accountability of Local Governments in West Bengal. Journal of Development Economics Vol 79, pp. 303-27. link
Besley, Timothy, Rohini Pande, Vijayendra Rao. 2007, "Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South link.
Chattopadhyay, R. and Esther Duflo (2004). ÒWomen as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India.Ó Econometrica, 72(5): 1409-1443.
de Janvry Alain, Hideyuki Nakagawa, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2009. "Pro-poor targeting and electoral rewards in decentralizing to communities the provision of local public goods in rural Zambia" link
de Janvry, Alain , Frederico Finan, and Elisabeth Sadoulet . 2008. ÒLocal Electoral Accountability and Decentralized Program PerformanceÓ. link
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. 2008. ÒSchool
Decentralization: Helping the Good get Better, but Leaving the Poor BehindÓ, Journal
of Public Economics. 92(10-11): 2106-2120. link
Ravallion, Martin. (2009). Decentralizing Eligibility for a Federal Antipoverty Program: A Case Study for ChinaÓ World Bank Economic Review. 23(1): 1-30.
V. Technology Adoption
ATAI. Barriers to the Adoption of Agricultural Technologies in
Developing Countries. White paper
prepared by B. Kelsey Jack. November 2009.link
Conley, T. and C. Udry (2009). "Learning about a New Technology: Pineapple
in Ghana." American Economic Review Forthcoming link
*Duflo, E., M. Kremer, and Jonathan Robinson (2009). Nudging Farmers to Use
Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya, Harvard University
Department of Economics working paper link
Foster, A. D. and M. R. Rosenzweig (1995). "Learning by Doing and
Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture." Journal
of Political Economy
103(6): 1176-1209.
Gine, Xavier and Dean Yang. Insurance,
Credit, and Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi, Journal
of Development Economics, Vol. 89, 2009, p.
1-11. link
Liu, E. (2008). Time to Change What to Sow: Risk
Preferences and Technology Adoption Decisions of Cotton Farmers in China,
Princeton University working paper.link
Munshi, K. (2004). "Social learning in a heterogeneous population:
technology diffusion in the Indian Green Revolution." Journal of
Development Economics
73(1): 185-213.
Munshi, K. (2008). "Information Networks in Dynamic Agrarian
Economies." Handbook of Development Economics 4. link
*Suri, Tavneet. 2009. Selection and comparative advantage in technology
adoption, NBER WP 15346.link
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