Reading assignments:
Please study the article before coming to class.
  • October 15: Banerjee, Abhijit V., "Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic Development" Sections 1-3. link
  • October 20: Cotler, Pablo, and Christopher Woodruff. The Impact of Short-Term Credit on Microenterprises: Evidence from the Fincomun-Bimbo Program in Mexico link
  • October 22: Bundervoet, Tom, Philip Verwimp, and Richard Akresh. Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi
  • October 27: Fafchamps, Marcel, Jan Willem Gunning, and Remco Ostendorp. 2000. "Inventories and Risk in African Manufacturing" The Economic Journal, 110: 861-93.link
  • October 29: Jayachandran, Seema, "Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries." Journal of Political Economy , volume 114 (2006), pp. 538-575. link
  • November 3: Ghatak, M; Guinnane, TW. "The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice. link
  • November 5: Gine, Xavier, and Dean Karlan, " Group versus Individual Liability: Long Term Evidence from Philippine Microcredit Lending Groups (May 2009), link
  • Novmber 10: de Janvry, Alain, Craig McIntosh, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2009."The Supply and Demand Side Impacts of Credit Market Information" link
  • November 12: Alderman, Harold. (2002). Do Local Officials Know Something We Dont? Decentralization of Targeted Transfers in Albania. Journal of Public Economics 83 375-404. link
  • November 17: Galiani, Sebastian, Paul Gertler, Ernesto Schargrodsky, "School Decentralization: Helping the Good get Better, but Leaving the Poor Behind" Journal of Public Economics link
  • November 19: Suri, Tavneet. 2009. Selection and comparative advantage in technology adoption, NBER WP 15346. link
  • November 24: 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
  • December 1: 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
  • December 3: Macours, Karen, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2009."Insecurity of Property Rights and Matching in the Tenancy Market". link