14.74 Foundations of Economic Development
Spring 2005
Links to Readings on the Web
These are required readings that are in the course reader:
Aleem, Irfan (1990) "Imperfect information, screening and the costs of informal lending: A study of a rural credit market in Pakistan." World Bank Economic Review 3, 329--349
Dreze, Jean, and Amartya Sen (1995) "Gender inequality and women"s agency." In "India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity" (Delhi: Oxford University Press) chapter 7, pp. 140--178
Probe Team (1999a) "The school environment." In "Public Report on Basic Education in India" (Delhi: Oxford University Press) chapter 4
Probe Team (1999b) "Schooling and the family." In "Public Report on Basic Education in India" (Delhi: Oxford University Press) chapter 3
Udry, Christopher (1990) "Credit markets in Northern Nigeria: Credit as insurance in a rural economy." World Bank Economic Review 4(3), 251--69
Wade, Robert (1982) "The system of administrative and political corruption: Canal irrigation in South India." Journal of Development Studies 18(3), 287--328
These are required readings that are available on the web:
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson (2001) "The colonial
origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation." American
Economic Review 91(5), 1369-1401
Banerjee, Abhijit V. (1999) "Land reforms: Prospects and strategies." Annual Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1999.
Banerjee, Abhijit V., Angus Deaton, and Esther Duflo (2003) "Wealth,
health and health services in rural Rajasthan," Mimeo, MIT, forthcoming
in AER, 2004.
Paxson, Christina H. (1992) "Using weather variability to estimate the
response of savings to transitory income in Thailand." American
Economic Review 82(1), 15-33
These are suggested readings that are available on the web:
Aportela, Fernando (1998) "The
effects of financial access on savings by low-income people." Mimeo,
MIT
Banerjee, Abhijit V. (1997) "A theory of misgovernance." Quarterly
Journal of Economics 112(4), 1289-1332
Banerjee, Abhijit V., and Esther Duflo (2000) "Reputation effects and the limits of contracting: A study of the indian software industry." Quarterly Journal of Economics 115(3), 989-1017
Banerjee, Abhijit V., and et al. (2004) `Remedying
education: Evidence from two randomized experiments in india.' Mimeo, MIT
Banerjee, Abhijit V., Paul Gertler, and Maitreesh Ghatak (2002) "Empowerment
and efficiency: Tenancy reform in West Bengal." Journal
of Political Economy 110(2), 239--280
Basu, Kaushik, and Pham Hoang Van (1998) "The economics of child labor."
American
Economic Review 88(3), 412-427
Beegle, Kathleen, Rajeev Dehejia, and Roberta Gatti (2003) `Child labor, crop shocks and credit constraints.' NBER Working Paper 10088
Duflo, Esther (2001) "Schooling and labor market consequences of school construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an unusual policy experiment." American Economic Review 91(4), 795--813
Duflo, Esther (2003) "Grandmothers and granddaughters: Old-age pensions and intrahousehold allocation in South Africa." World Bank Economic Review 17(1), 1--25
Duflo, Esther, and Christopher Udry (2004) `Intrahousehold resource allocation in Cote D'ivoire: Social norms, separate accounts and consumption choices.' NBER Working Paper 10498
Duflo, Esther, and Rema Hanna (2005) `Monitoring works: getting teachers to come to school.' Mimeo, MIT coming soon
Edmonds, Eric (2004) `Child labor and schooling responses to anticipated cash transfers in south africa.' Mimeo, Dartmouth College
Greif, Avner (1993) "Contract enforceability and economic institution
in early trade: The Maghribi traders coalition." American
Economic Review 83(3), 525-548
Greif, Avner (1994) "Cultural beliefs and the organization of society:
A historical and theoretical reflection on collectivist and individualist societies."
Journal
of Political Economy 102(5), 912-950
Jensen, Robert (2000) "Agricultural volatility and investments in children."
American
Economic Review 90(2), 399-405
Kremer, Michael, and Paul Glewwe (2003) `Teacher incentives.' NBER Working Paper 9671
La Porta, Rafael, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny
(1998) "Law and finance." Journal
of Political Economy 106(6), 1113-1155
Lundberg, Shelly J., Robert A. Pollak, and Terence J. Wales (1996) "Do
husbands and wives pool their resources? Evidence from the United Kingdom child
benefit." Journal
of Human Resources 32(3), 463-480
Morduch, Jonathan (1999) "The microfinance promise." Journal
of Economic Literature 37(4), 1569-1614
Munshi, Kaivan and J. Myaux (2002) "Development as a Process of Social Change: An Application to the Fertility Transition," Mimeo, University of Pennsylvania
Qian, Nancy (2005) `Missing women and the price of tea in china: The e®ect of relative female income on sex imbalance.' Mimeo, MIT
Rao, Vijayendra (1993) "The rising price of husbands: A hedonic analysis
of dowry increases in rural India." Journal
of Political Economy 101(4), 666-677
Rose, Elaina (1999) "Consumption smoothing and excess female mortality
in rural India." Review
of Economics and Statistics 81(1), 41-49
Shleifer, Andrei, and Robert W. Vishny (1993) "Corruption." The
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108(3), 599-617
Subramanian, Shankar, and Angus Deaton (1996) "The demand for food and
calories." Journal
of Political Economy 104(1), 133-162
Thomas, Duncan (1990) "Intra-household resource allocation: An inferential
approach." Journal
of Human Resources 25(4), 635-664
Thomas, Duncan, and et al. (2004) `Causal effect of health on labor market outcomes: Evidence from a random assignment iron supplementtion intervention.' Mimeo, UCLA
Townsend, Robert (1995) "Financial systems in Northern Thai villages."
Quarterly
Journal of Economics 110(4), 1011-1046
Udry, Christopher (1996) "Gender, agricultural production, and the theory
of the household." Journal
of Political Economy 101(5), 1010-1045
Articles not available online:
Deaton, Angus (1997) The Analysis of Household Surveys (World Bank, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
Hartmann, Betsy (1983) "The trials of a poor peasant family." In "A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village" (Zed Press) chapter 12