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ECON 512

Economic Development I

3 units

Winter 2025

Readings

  • Handbook of Development Economics: Vol. 1, 3A, 3B, 4, and 5, Elsevier, ISSN: 1573-4471: Internet Access is
    unspecified
  • A. Deaton, The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to De- velopment Policy, Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, Maryland, 1997
    unspecified
  • book of Development Economics, Vol. 4, Elsevier
    unspecified
  • Schultz, T.P. (2004). Health economics and applications in developing countries. Journal of Health Economics, 23 (4), 637-641
    unspecified
  • Strauss, J., Gertler, P., Rahman, O. and K.Fox (1993). Gender and Life-Cycle Dif- ferentials in the Patterns and Determinants of Adult Health. Journal of Human
    unspecified
  • Maccini, S. and Yang, D. (2009). Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Eco- nomic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall. American Economic Review, vol. 99 (3): 1006-1026. (*)
    unspecified
  • Grimard, F., S. Laszlo and W. Lim. (2010). Health, Aging and Childhood Socio- Economic Conditions in Mexico. Journal of Health Economics, vol. 29(5): 630
    unspecified
  • Chen, Y. and Zhou, L.-A. (2007). The long-term health and economic consequences of the 1959-1961 famine in China. Journal of Health Economics, 26: 659-681. (†)
    unspecified
  • Lokshin, M. and Radyakin, S. (2012). Month of Birth and Children’s Health in India. Journal of Human Resource, 47(1): 174-204
    unspecified
  • Schultz, T.P. (2003). Wage rentals for reproducible human capital: Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Economics and Human Biology, 1(3): 331-366
    unspecified
  • Galiani, S., Gertler, P., & Schargrodsky, E. (2005). Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality. Journal of Political Economy. 113(1): 83-120. (*)
    unspecified
  • Rocha, R. and Soares, R. R. (2010). Evaluating the impact of community- based health interventions: Evidence from Brazil’s family health program. Health Economics, 19: 126-158. (*)
    unspecified
  • Zhang, J. (2012). The impact of water quality on health: Evidence from the drinking water infrastructure program in rural China. Journal of Health Economics, vol. 31: 122- 134. (†)
    unspecified
  • Cesur, R. & Gunes, P. M. & Tekin, E. & Ulker, A. (2017). The value of socialized medicine: The impact of universal primary healthcare provision on mortality rates in Turkey. Journal of Public Economics, 150: 75-93
    unspecified
  • Spears, D. & Lamba, S. (2016). Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Sanitation on Childhood Cognitive Skills: Evidence from India’s Total Sanitation Cam- paign. Journal of Human Resources, 51(2): 298-327
    unspecified
  • Glewwe, P. and Muralidharan, K. (2016). Ch. 10. Improving Education Outcomes in Developing Countries: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Policy Implications, Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 5: 654-665
    unspecified
  • Glewwe, P. and Kremer, M. (2006). Ch. 16 Schools, Teachers, and Education Out- comes in Developing Countries, Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 2: 946-964
    unspecified
  • Glewwe, Paul (2002). Schools and Skills in Developing Countries: Educa- tion Policies and Socioeconomic Outcomes. Journal of Economic Literature. 40(2): 436-482
    unspecified
  • Glewwe, P. (1999). Ch. 5. School Quality, Student Achievement, and Fertility in Developing Countries. In Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World, The National Academies Press, Washington D.C
    unspecified
  • Orazem, P. and E. M. King (2008). Ch 55. Schooling in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy, Handbook of Development Economics, vol. 4, pp. 3475-3559. Elsevier
    unspecified
  • Duflo, E. (2001). Schooling and labor market consequences of school con- struction in Indonesia: Evidence from an unusual policy experiment. Amer- ican Economic Review 91, 795-813
    unspecified
  • Angrist, J.D., Bettinger, E., Bloom, E., King, E., Kremer, M. (2002). Vouchers for private schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment. American Economic Review 92 (5): 1535-1559. (*)
    unspecified
  • Alderman, H., Gilligan, D.O., Lehrer, K. (2012). The impact of food for education programs on school participation in northern Uganda. Econ. Dev. Cult. Chang. 61 (1): 187-218. (*)
    unspecified
  • Gunes, P. (2015). The role of maternal education in child health: Evidence from a compulsory schooling law. Economics of Education Review. 47: 1-16. (*)
    unspecified
  • Muralidharan, K. and Sundararaman, V. (2011). Teacher performance pay: Experi- mental evidence from India. J. Polit. Econ. 119 (1): 39-77. (*)
    unspecified
  • Hsieh, C.-T. and Urquiola, M. (2006). The effects of generalized school choice on achievement and stratification: Evidence from Chile’s voucher program. J. Public Econ. 90 (8): 1477-1503. (†)
    unspecified
  • Chin, A. (2005). Can redistributing teachers across schools raise educational at- tainment: Evidence from operation blackboard in India. J. Dev. Econ. 78 (2): 384-405. (†)
    unspecified
  • Gertler, P.J., Patrinos, H.A., Rubio-Codina, M. (2012). Empowering parents to improve education: Evidence from rural Mexico. J. Dev. Econ. 99: 68-79
    unspecified
  • Jensen, R. (2010). The (perceived) returns to education and the demand for school- ing. Q. J. Econ. 25 (2): 515-548
    unspecified
  • Jacoby, H.G. and Skoufias, E. (1997). Risk, financial markets, and human capital in a developing country. Review of Economic Studies. 64: 311-335
    unspecified
  • Edmonds, E. (2007). Ch. 57 Child Labor, Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 4: 3609-3639
    unspecified
  • Schultz, P. (2008). Ch. 52 Population policies, fertility, women’s human capital, and child quality, Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 4: 3250-3290
    unspecified
  • Miller, G. (2010). Contraception as development? New evidence from family planning in Colombia. Economic Journal, 120 (545): 709-736. (*)
    unspecified
  • Osili, U. & Long, B.T. (2008). Does female schooling reduce fertility? Evidence from Nigeria? Journal of Development Economics, 87: 57-75. (†)
    unspecified
  • Sinha, N. (2005). Fertility, child work, and schooling consequences of family planning programs. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 54 (1): 97-128
    unspecified
  • Lee, J. (2008). Sibling size and investment in children’s education: An Asian instru- ment. Journal of Population Economics, 21 (4): 855-875
    unspecified
  • Ardington, C., Menendez, A. & Mutevedzi, T. (2015). Early childbearing, human capital attainment and mortality risk: Evidence from a longitudinal demographic surveillance area in rural-KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Econ Dev Cult Change, 63(2): 281-317
    unspecified
  • Akresh, R., Lucchetti, L., and Thirumurthy, H. (2012). Wars and child health: Evi- dence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict. J. of Dev. Economics, 99: 330-340. (*)
    unspecified
  • Chamarbagwala, R., Moran, H.E. (2011). The human capital consequences of civil war: Evidence from Guatemala. J. of Dev. Economics, 94 (1): 41-61. (*)
    unspecified
  • Bundervoet, T., Verwimp, P. & Akresh, R. (2009). Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi. Journal of Human Resources, 44 (2): 536-63. (†)
    unspecified
  • Leon, G. (2012). Civil Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation: Long Term Conse- quences of Political Violence in Peru. Journal of Human Resources, 47 (4): 991-1023. (†)
    unspecified
  • Shemyakina, O. (2011). The effect of armed conflict on accumulation of schooling: Results from Tajikistan. J. of Dev. Economics, 95: 186-200
    unspecified
  • Brown, R. & Velasquez, A. (2017). The effect of violent crime on the human capital accumulation of young adults. J. of Dev. Economics, 127: 1-12
    unspecified
Fall 2023

Readings

  • Handbook of Development Economics: Vol. 1, 3A, 3B, 4, and 5, Elsevier, ISSN: 1573-4471: Internet Access is
    unspecified
  • A. Deaton, The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to De- velopment Policy, Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, Maryland, 1997
    unspecified
  • book of Development Economics, Vol. 4, Elsevier
    unspecified
  • Schultz, T.P. (2004). Health economics and applications in developing countries. Journal of Health Economics, 23 (4), 637-641
    unspecified
  • Strauss, J., Gertler, P., Rahman, O. and K.Fox (1993). Gender and Life-Cycle Dif- ferentials in the Patterns and Determinants of Adult Health. Journal of Human
    unspecified
  • Maccini, S. and Yang, D. (2009). Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Eco- nomic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall. American Economic Review, vol. 99 (3): 1006-1026. (*)
    unspecified
  • Grimard, F., S. Laszlo and W. Lim. (2010). Health, Aging and Childhood Socio- Economic Conditions in Mexico. Journal of Health Economics, vol. 29(5): 630
    unspecified
  • Chen, Y. and Zhou, L.-A. (2007). The long-term health and economic consequences of the 1959-1961 famine in China. Journal of Health Economics, 26: 659-681. (†)
    unspecified
  • Lokshin, M. and Radyakin, S. (2012). Month of Birth and Children’s Health in India. Journal of Human Resource, 47(1): 174-204
    unspecified
  • Schultz, T.P. (2003). Wage rentals for reproducible human capital: Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Economics and Human Biology, 1(3): 331-366
    unspecified
  • Galiani, S., Gertler, P., & Schargrodsky, E. (2005). Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality. Journal of Political Economy. 113(1): 83-120. (*)
    unspecified
  • Rocha, R. and Soares, R. R. (2010). Evaluating the impact of community- based health interventions: Evidence from Brazil’s family health program. Health Economics, 19: 126-158. (*)
    unspecified
  • Zhang, J. (2012). The impact of water quality on health: Evidence from the drinking water infrastructure program in rural China. Journal of Health Economics, vol. 31: 122- 134. (†)
    unspecified
  • Cesur, R. & Gunes, P. M. & Tekin, E. & Ulker, A. (2017). The value of socialized medicine: The impact of universal primary healthcare provision on mortality rates in Turkey. Journal of Public Economics, 150: 75-93
    unspecified
  • Spears, D. & Lamba, S. (2016). Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Sanitation on Childhood Cognitive Skills: Evidence from India’s Total Sanitation Cam- paign. Journal of Human Resources, 51(2): 298-327
    unspecified
  • Glewwe, P. and Muralidharan, K. (2016). Ch. 10. Improving Education Outcomes in Developing Countries: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Policy Implications, Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 5: 654-665
    unspecified
  • Glewwe, P. and Kremer, M. (2006). Ch. 16 Schools, Teachers, and Education Out- comes in Developing Countries, Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 2: 946-964
    unspecified
  • Glewwe, Paul (2002). Schools and Skills in Developing Countries: Educa- tion Policies and Socioeconomic Outcomes. Journal of Economic Literature. 40(2): 436-482
    unspecified
  • Glewwe, P. (1999). Ch. 5. School Quality, Student Achievement, and Fertility in Developing Countries. In Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World, The National Academies Press, Washington D.C
    unspecified
  • Orazem, P. and E. M. King (2008). Ch 55. Schooling in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy, Handbook of Development Economics, vol. 4, pp. 3475-3559. Elsevier
    unspecified
  • Duflo, E. (2001). Schooling and labor market consequences of school con- struction in Indonesia: Evidence from an unusual policy experiment. Amer- ican Economic Review 91, 795-813
    unspecified
  • Angrist, J.D., Bettinger, E., Bloom, E., King, E., Kremer, M. (2002). Vouchers for private schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment. American Economic Review 92 (5): 1535-1559. (*)
    unspecified
  • Alderman, H., Gilligan, D.O., Lehrer, K. (2012). The impact of food for education programs on school participation in northern Uganda. Econ. Dev. Cult. Chang. 61 (1): 187-218. (*)
    unspecified
  • Gunes, P. (2015). The role of maternal education in child health: Evidence from a compulsory schooling law. Economics of Education Review. 47: 1-16. (*)
    unspecified
  • Muralidharan, K. and Sundararaman, V. (2011). Teacher performance pay: Experi- mental evidence from India. J. Polit. Econ. 119 (1): 39-77. (*)
    unspecified
  • Hsieh, C.-T. and Urquiola, M. (2006). The effects of generalized school choice on achievement and stratification: Evidence from Chile’s voucher program. J. Public Econ. 90 (8): 1477-1503. (†)
    unspecified
  • Chin, A. (2005). Can redistributing teachers across schools raise educational at- tainment: Evidence from operation blackboard in India. J. Dev. Econ. 78 (2): 384-405. (†)
    unspecified
  • Gertler, P.J., Patrinos, H.A., Rubio-Codina, M. (2012). Empowering parents to improve education: Evidence from rural Mexico. J. Dev. Econ. 99: 68-79
    unspecified
  • Jensen, R. (2010). The (perceived) returns to education and the demand for school- ing. Q. J. Econ. 25 (2): 515-548
    unspecified
  • Jacoby, H.G. and Skoufias, E. (1997). Risk, financial markets, and human capital in a developing country. Review of Economic Studies. 64: 311-335
    unspecified
  • Edmonds, E. (2007). Ch. 57 Child Labor, Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 4: 3609-3639
    unspecified
  • Schultz, P. (2008). Ch. 52 Population policies, fertility, women’s human capital, and child quality, Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 4: 3250-3290
    unspecified
  • Miller, G. (2010). Contraception as development? New evidence from family planning in Colombia. Economic Journal, 120 (545): 709-736. (*)
    unspecified
  • Osili, U. & Long, B.T. (2008). Does female schooling reduce fertility? Evidence from Nigeria? Journal of Development Economics, 87: 57-75. (†)
    unspecified
  • Sinha, N. (2005). Fertility, child work, and schooling consequences of family planning programs. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 54 (1): 97-128
    unspecified
  • Lee, J. (2008). Sibling size and investment in children’s education: An Asian instru- ment. Journal of Population Economics, 21 (4): 855-875
    unspecified
  • Ardington, C., Menendez, A. & Mutevedzi, T. (2015). Early childbearing, human capital attainment and mortality risk: Evidence from a longitudinal demographic surveillance area in rural-KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Econ Dev Cult Change, 63(2): 281-317
    unspecified
  • Akresh, R., Lucchetti, L., and Thirumurthy, H. (2012). Wars and child health: Evi- dence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict. J. of Dev. Economics, 99: 330-340. (*)
    unspecified
  • Chamarbagwala, R., Moran, H.E. (2011). The human capital consequences of civil war: Evidence from Guatemala. J. of Dev. Economics, 94 (1): 41-61. (*)
    unspecified
  • Bundervoet, T., Verwimp, P. & Akresh, R. (2009). Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi. Journal of Human Resources, 44 (2): 536-63. (†)
    unspecified
  • Leon, G. (2012). Civil Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation: Long Term Conse- quences of Political Violence in Peru. Journal of Human Resources, 47 (4): 991-1023. (†)
    unspecified
  • Shemyakina, O. (2011). The effect of armed conflict on accumulation of schooling: Results from Tajikistan. J. of Dev. Economics, 95: 186-200
    unspecified
  • Brown, R. & Velasquez, A. (2017). The effect of violent crime on the human capital accumulation of young adults. J. of Dev. Economics, 127: 1-12
    unspecified
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