Courses EEP 118 / IAS 118 - Introductory Applied Econometrics Tues/Thurs 9:30-11:00 in 141 Giannini ARE 251 / ECON 270A - Microeconomics of development (graduate) Tues/Thurs 3:30-5:00 in 2319 Tolman PP C253 / ARE C253 - International economic development policy: Theory, methods, and case studies F 10:00-12:00 pm in 285 CORY. ARE 219 - Empirical projects 2009/10 Development field Current seminar Monday 4-6pm, 607-8 Evans Development lunch Tuesday 12:30-1:30, Room 607-8 Evans Development field webpage Link to the UC Center for International and Development Economics Research CEGA - Center of Evaluation for Global Action Recently Published Papers Journal Articles Lai, Fang, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Alain de Janvry. 2009. "The Contributions of School Quality and Teacher Qualifications to Student Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Beijing Middle School" Forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources pdf 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 pdf Bernard, Tanguy, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2009. "When Does Community Conservatism Constrain Village Organizations?" Forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change . pdf de Janvry, Alain and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2009. "Agriculture for Development: Lessons from the World Development Report 2008" QA - Rivista dell'Associazone Rossi Doria, 2009(1):9-24. pdf
Journal Articles
Lai, Fang, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Alain de Janvry. 2009. "The Contributions of School Quality and Teacher Qualifications to Student Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Beijing Middle School" Forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources pdf 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 pdf Bernard, Tanguy, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2009. "When Does Community Conservatism Constrain Village Organizations?" Forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change . pdf
Sunil Kanwar and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2008. "Dynamic Output Response Revisited: The Indian Cash Crops." The Developing Economies, 46(3):217-41. pdf
Bernard, Tanguy, Marie-Helene Collion, Alain de Janvry, Pierre Rondot , and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2008. "Do Village Organizations Make a Difference in African Rural Development? A Study for Senegal and Burkina Faso." World Development 36(11): 2188-2204. pre-print version
Alix-Garcia, Jennifer, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2008. "The Role of Deforestation Risk and Calibrated Compensation in Designing Payments for Environmental Services." Environment and Development Economics, 13(3): 375-394 pdf link.
Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2007. "Optimal Share Contracts with Moral Hazard on Effort and in Output Reporting: Managing the Double Laffer Curve Effect." Oxford Economic Papers, 59: 253-274. link.
Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2006. "Making Conditionnal Cash Transfers More Efficient: Designing for Maximum Effect of the Conditionality." World Bank Economic Review, 20:1-29. link
Alain de Janvry, 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
McIntosh Craig, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2006. "How Rising Competition among Microfinance Lenders Affect Incumbent Village Bank", Economic Journal, 115(506):987-1004. link
Finan Frederico , Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Alain de Janvry. 2005. "Measuring the Poverty Reduction Potential of Land in Mexico", Journal of Development Economics 77(1), pp. 27-51.link
Alix-Garcia Jennifer , Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2005. "A Tale of Two Communities: Explaining Deforestation in Mexico", World Development 33(2), pp. 219-235. link
de Janvry, Alain, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2004. "Fitting the Facts and Capitalizing on New Opportunities to Redesign Rural Development Programs in Latin America" Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, 42(3): 399-430. link
Godtland, Erin, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Alain de Janvry, Rinku Murgai, and Oscar Ortiz. 2004. "The Impact of Farmer-Field-Schools on Knowledge and Productivity: A Study of Potato Farmers in the Peruvian Andes." Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52(1): 129-158. pdf
Araujo, Caridad, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2004. "Patrones espaciales del crecimiento del empleo no agricola en el Mexico rural en los anos noventa" Territorio y Economia 5: 11-28. pdf (in English)
de Janvry, Alain and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "Depasser Bono: Comment rendre plus efficiente l'aide au developpement". Revue d'economie du developpement . 4 (2003) pdf
Munoz-Pina Carlos, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "Re-Crafting Rights over Common Property Resources in Mexico" Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2 (1): 129-158 (2003) pdf
Dutilly-Diane, Celine, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry. "How Improved Natural Resource Management in Agriculture Promotes the Livestock Economy in the Sahel" Journal of African Economies, 2003(12): 343-370. link to journal, pdf . in French in Revue d'economie du developpement. 2004 (1), pp. 5-34.
Other publications
Alex-Garcia, Jennifer, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2009. "Role of risk in targeting payments for environmental services." In Charles Palmer and Stefanie Engel, eds., Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change. Routledge Press. pdf
Alex-Garcia, Jennifer, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Juan Manuel Torres. 2005. An Assessment of Mexico's Payment for Environmental Services Program. FAO report pdf
de Janvry, Alain, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2005. Can Mexico's Social Programs Help Reduce Poverty? Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Winter, pp. 8-12. pdf
Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, 2008. "Access to Land and Development" New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, Palgrave Macmillan. pdf
Goldstein, Markus Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2005. "Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed? " in Stephan Dercon (ed.) Insurance against Poverty, Oxford University Press. pdf
de Janvry, Alain and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2004. Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Are They Really Magic Bullets? ARE Update, Vol. 7, No. 6 link
Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "Progress in the Modeling of Rural Households' Behavior under Market Failures " June 2003, forthcoming in Alain de Janvry and Ravi Kanbur (ed.) Poverty, Inequality and Development. Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke, Kluwer publishing pdf
de Janvry, A.; Sadoulet, E. "Rural Poverty in Latin America: Determinants and Exit Paths. In: Mathur, S.; Pachico, D. Agricultural research and poverty reduction: Some issues and evidence". Economics and Impact Series 2. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia. p. 105-130. 2003.
de Janvry, Alain, Gregory Graff, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and David Zilberman. "Agricultural Biotechnology and Poverty: Can the Potential be Made a Reality" FAO Policy Division book, 2003 pdf
de Janvry, Alain and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "En busqueda del exito de las Politicas de Desarollo Rural, Implementation de una Vision Integral." In Ramos, Alvaro, ed. Desarollo Rural Sostenible con Enfoque territorial: Politicas y Estrategias para Uruguay . Montevideo: IICA. 2003.
Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry. Quantitative Development Policy Analysis The John Hopkins University Press, 1995. The book is out of print. Dowload a pdf version , with excel book for the exercises.
Appendixes from published papers
"Household modelling for the design of poverty alleviation strategies." in french in Revue d'Economie du Developpement, Vol.3, (1995), pp. 3-23. Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet.
Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "World Poverty and the Role of Agricultural Technology: Direct and Indirect Effects", Journal of Development Studies. Paper Appendix 2: Social Accounting Matrices Appendix 2: Social Accounting Matrices - Tables Appendix 3: Structure of the CGE Model
Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America: A Causal Analysis, 1970-94", The Review of Income and Wealth, September 2000. Appendix B1: Data source Appendix B2: Poverty and Inequality Data
The Meaning of Kinship in Sharecropping Contracts" American Journal of Agricultural Economics, May 1997. Elisabeth Sadoulet, Alain de Janvry, and Seiichi Fukui Appendix