ECON 513
Economic Development II
Fall 2022
Readings
- Udry, Christopher (1996). “Gender, Agricultural Productivity and Theory of the House- hold,” Journal of Political Economy. 104 (1)
- De Janvry, A. and Sadoulet, E. (2016). Development Economics: Theory and Prac- tice.Chapter 12
- Bardhan, Pranab and Christopher Udry (1999), Development Microeconomics, Chapter
- Edmonds, Eric and Nina Pavcnik (2006). “Trade Liberalization and the Allocation of Labor between Households and Markets in a Poor Country,” Journal of International Economics, 69: 272-95
- Gibson, John, David McKenzie and Steven Stillman (2011). “The Impacts of Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 93(4): 1297-1317
- McKenzie, David and Hillel Rapoport (2010). “Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Role of Migration Networks.” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 92(4): 811-21
- Osmani (1990). “Wage Determination in Rural Labor Markets: The Theory of Implicit Cooperation,” Journal of Development Economics, 34
- Basu, Kaushik. and Pham Van. (1998). “The Economics of Child Labor,” American Economic Review, (88), 412-427
- Dasgupta, P. and Ray, D. (1986). “Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment: Theory,” Economic Journal, 96:1011-1034
- Harrison, Ann and Leamer, Edward (1997). “Labor Markets in Developing Countries: An Agenda for Research,” Journal of Labor Economics, 15(3): S1-S19
- Krueger, Alan and Lindhal, M. (2001). “Education for Growth: Why and for Whom?.” Journal of Economic Literature, 39(4): 1101-1136
- Ravallion, Martin and Quentin Wodon (2000). “Does Child Labor Displace School- ing? Evidence on Behavioral Response to an Enrollment Subsidy,” Economic Journal, 110(462): 158-175
- De Janvry, A. and Sadoulet, E. (2016). Development Economics: Theory and Prac- tice.Chapter 17
- Duflo, Esther (2001). “Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment,” The American Economic Review, 91(4): 795-813
- Schultz, T. Paul (2004). “School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program,” Journal of Development Economics, 74(1); 199-250
- Miguel, Edward and Michael Kremer (2004). “Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities,” Econometrica, 72(1): 159-217
- Card, David. 1999. “The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings.” Handbook of Labor
- Economics, Vol. 3, Ch. 30
- Glewwe, Paul (2002). “Schools and Skills in Developing Countries: Education Policies and Socioeconomic Outcomes,” Journal of Economic Literature, 40(2): 436-482
- Foster, Andrew D. and Mark R. Rosenzweig. (1996). “Technical Change and Human Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution,” The American Economic Review, 86(4): 931-953
- Rosenzweig, Mark R (2010). “Microeconomic Approaches to Development: Schooling, Learning, and Growth,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24(3): 81-96
- Autor, David, David Dorn and Gordon H. Hanson (2013). “The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States,” American Economic Review, 103(6): 2121-68
- De Janvry, A. and Sadoulet, E. (2016). Development Economics: Theory and Prac- tice.Chapter 7
- Dollar, David and Aart Kraay (2004). “Trade, Growth and Poverty,” Economic Journal, 114 (493): F22-F49
- Frankel, Jeffrey and David Romer (1999). “Does Trade Cause Growth?” American Eco- nomic Review, 89(3): 374-99
- Goldberg, Pinelopi and Nina Pavcnik (2007). “Distributional Effects of Trade Liberaliza- tion in Developing Countries,” Journal of Economic Literature, 45(1): 39-82
- Han, Jun, Runjuan Liu, Beyza Ural Marchand and Junsen Zhang “Market Competition, Imperfect Pass-Through and Household Welfare in Urban China,”, Journal of Interna- tional Economics, 100, 2016, 220-232
- Krishna, Pravin and Devashish Mitra (1998). “Trade Liberalization, Market Discipline and Productivity Growth: New Evidence from India,” Journal of Development Eco- nomics, 56, 447-462
- Sachs, Jeffrey and Andrew Warner (1995). “Economic Reform and the Process of Global Integration,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1: 1- 118
- Ural Marchand, Beyza (2012). “Tariff Pass-Through and the Distributional Effects of Trade Liberalization,” Journal of Development Economics, 99(2), 2012, 265-281
- Autor, David, David Dorn and Gordon H. Hanson (2013). “Untangling Trade and Tech- nology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets,” NBER Working Papers, No: 18938
- Harrison, Ann (1994). “Productivity, Imperfect Competition and Trade Reform: Theory and Evidence,” Journal of International Economics, 36, 53-73
- Melitz, Marc (2003). “The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggre- gate Industry Productivity”, Econometrica, 71(6), 1695-1725
- Pavcnik, Nina (2002). “Trade Liberalization, Exit, and Productivity Improvement: Evi- dence from Chilean Plants,” Review of Economic Studies, 69(1), 245-76
- Winters, Alan, McCulloch, Neil and McKay, Andrew (2004). “Trade Liberalization and Poverty: The Evidence So Far.” Journal of Economic Literature, 42(1): 72-115
- Acemoglu, Daren, S. Johnson and J. Robinson (2001). “The Colonial Origins of Com- parative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” American Economic Review, 91(5): 1369-1401
- Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Jhonson and James Robinson (2005). “The Rise of Europe: At- lantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth,” American Economic Review, 95(3): 546-579
- Besley, Timothy (1996). “Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evi- dence from Ghana,” Journal of Political Economy, 103(5): 903-921
- Banerjee, Abhijit and Lakshimi Iyer (2005). “Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal,” Journal of Political Economy, 110(2): 239-280
- De Janvry, A. and Sadoulet, E. (2016). Development Economics: Theory and Prac- tice.Chapter 20
- Munshi, Kaivan and Mark Rosenzweig (2003). “Traditional Institutions Meet the Mod- ern World: Caste, Gender and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy,” American Economic Review, 96(4): 1225–1252
- Nunn, Nathan and Nancy Qian (2011). “The Potato’s Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from a Historical Experiment,” The Quarterly Journal of Eco- nomics, 126(2): 593-650
- Easterly, William and Ross Levine (1997). “Africa’s Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112(4): 1203-1250
- Levchenko, Andrei (2007). “Institutional Quality and International Trade,” Review of Economic Studies, 74(3): 791-819
- Pande, Rohini and Udry, Chris (2005). “Institutions and Development: A View from Below,” Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 928
- Credit, Savings and Insurance (time permitting)
- Besley, Thomas and Stephen Coate (1995). “Group Lending, Repayment Incentives and Social Collateral,” Journal of Development Economics, 46(1): 1-18
- Burgess, Robin and Rohini Pande (2005). “Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment,” American Economic Review, 95(3): 780-795
- Deaton, Angus and Paxon Christina (2000). “Growth and Savings among Individuals and Households,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 82(2): 212-225
- Jensen, Robert (2000). “Agricultural Volatility and Investments in Children,” American Economic Review, 90(2): 399-405
- Jayachandran, Seema (2006). “Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries,” Journal of Political Economy, 114(3): 538-575
- Udry, Chris (1994). “Risk and Insurance in Rural Credit Market: An Empirical Investi- gation in Northern Nigeria,” Review of Economic Studies, 61(3): 495-526
- Udry, Chris (1990). “Credit Markets in Northern Nigeria: Credit as Insurance in a Rural Economy,” World Bank Economic Review, 4(3): 251- 269
- Morduch, Jonathan (1999). “The Microfinance Promise,” Journal of Economic Litera- ture, 37(4): 1569-1614
- Banerjee, Abhijit, Dilip Mookherjee, Kaivan Munshi and Debraj Ray (2001). “Inequal- ity, Control Rights and Rent Seeking: Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra,” Journal of Political Economy, 109(1): 138-190
- Banerjee, Abhijit and Rohini Somanathan (2007). “The Political Economy of Public Goods: Some Evidence from India,” Journal of Development Economics,” 82(2): 287
- De Janvry, A. and Sadoulet, E. (2016). Development Economics: Theory and Prac- tice.Chapter 21
- Duflo, Esther and Raghabendra Chattapadhyaya (2004). “Women as Policy Makers, Evidence from Randomized Policy Experiment in India,” Econometrica, 72(5), 1409-1443
- Pande, Rohini (2003). “Can Mandated Political Representation Increase Policy Influence for Disadvantages Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India,” American Economic Review, 93(4): 1132-1151
- Khwaja, Asim and Atif Mian (2005). “Do Lenders Favor Politically Connected Firms? Rent Provision in an Emerging Financial Market,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(4): 1371-1411
Winter 2021
Readings
- Udry, Christopher (1996). “Gender, Agricultural Productivity and Theory of the House- hold,” Journal of Political Economy. 104 (1)
- De Janvry, A. and Sadoulet, E. (2016). Development Economics: Theory and Prac- tice.Chapter 12
- Bardhan, Pranab and Christopher Udry (1999), Development Microeconomics, Chapter
- Edmonds, Eric and Nina Pavcnik (2006). “Trade Liberalization and the Allocation of Labor between Households and Markets in a Poor Country,” Journal of International Economics, 69: 272-95
- Gibson, John, David McKenzie and Steven Stillman (2011). “The Impacts of Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 93(4): 1297-1317
- McKenzie, David and Hillel Rapoport (2010). “Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Role of Migration Networks.” The Review of Economics and Statistics,
- Osmani (1990). “Wage Determination in Rural Labor Markets: The Theory of Implicit Cooperation,” Journal of Development Economics, 34. Background and Further Reading:
- Basu, Kaushik. and Pham Van. (1998). “The Economics of Child Labor,” American Economic Review, (88), 412-427
- Dasgupta, P. and Ray, D. (1986). “Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment: Theory,” Economic Journal, 96:1011-1034
- Harrison, Ann and Leamer, Edward (1997). “Labor Markets in Developing Countries: An Agenda for Research,” Journal of Labor Economics, 15(3): S1-S19
- Krueger, Alan and Lindhal, M. (2001). “Education for Growth: Why and for Whom?.” Journal of Economic Literature, 39(4): 1101-1136
- Ravallion, Martin and Quentin Wodon (2000). “Does Child Labor Displace School- ing? Evidence on Behavioral Response to an Enrollment Subsidy,” Economic Journal, 110(462): 158-175
- De Janvry, A. and Sadoulet, E. (2016). Development Economics: Theory and Prac- tice.Chapter 17
- Duflo, Esther (2001). “Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment,” The American Economic Review, 91(4): 795-813
- Schultz, T. Paul (2004). “School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program,” Journal of Development Economics, 74(1); 199-250
- Miguel, Edward and Michael Kremer (2004). “Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities,” Econometrica, 72(1): 159-217. Background and Further Reading:
- Card, David. 1999. “The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings.” Handbook of Labor
- Economics, Vol. 3, Ch. 30
- Glewwe, Paul (2002). “Schools and Skills in Developing Countries: Education Policies and Socioeconomic Outcomes,” Journal of Economic Literature, 40(2): 436-482
- Foster, Andrew D. and Mark R. Rosenzweig. (1996). “Technical Change and Human Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution,” The American Economic Review, 86(4): 931-953
- Rosenzweig, Mark R (2010). “Microeconomic Approaches to Development: Schooling, Learning, and Growth,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24(3): 81-96
- Autor, David, David Dorn and Gordon H. Hanson (2013). “The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States,” American Economic Review, 103(6): 2121-68
- De Janvry, A. and Sadoulet, E. (2016). Development Economics: Theory and Prac- tice.Chapter 7
- Dollar, David and Aart Kraay (2004). “Trade, Growth and Poverty,” Economic Journal, 114 (493): F22-F49
- Frankel, Jeffrey and David Romer (1999). “Does Trade Cause Growth?” American Eco- nomic Review, 89(3): 374-99
- Goldberg, Pinelopi and Nina Pavcnik (2007). “Distributional Effects of Trade Liberaliza- tion in Developing Countries,” Journal of Economic Literature, 45(1): 39-82
- Han, Jun, Runjuan Liu, Beyza Ural Marchand and Junsen Zhang “Market Competition, Imperfect Pass-Through and Household Welfare in Urban China,”, Journal of Interna- tional Economics, 100, 2016, 220-232
- Krishna, Pravin and Devashish Mitra (1998). “Trade Liberalization, Market Discipline and Productivity Growth: New Evidence from India,” Journal of Development Eco- nomics, 56, 447-462
- Sachs, Jeffrey and Andrew Warner (1995). “Economic Reform and the Process of Global Integration,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1: 1- 118
- Ural Marchand, Beyza (2012). “Tariff Pass-Through and the Distributional Effects of Trade Liberalization,” Journal of Development Economics, 99(2), 2012, 265-281
- Autor, David, David Dorn and Gordon H. Hanson (2013). “Untangling Trade and Tech- nology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets,” NBER Working Papers, No: 18938
- Harrison, Ann (1994). “Productivity, Imperfect Competition and Trade Reform: Theory and Evidence,” Journal of International Economics, 36, 53-73
- Melitz, Marc (2003). “The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggre- gate Industry Productivity”, Econometrica, 71(6), 1695-1725
- Pavcnik, Nina (2002). “Trade Liberalization, Exit, and Productivity Improvement: Evi- dence from Chilean Plants,” Review of Economic Studies, 69(1), 245-76
- Winters, Alan, McCulloch, Neil and McKay, Andrew (2004). “Trade Liberalization and Poverty: The Evidence So Far.” Journal of Economic Literature, 42(1): 72-115
- Acemoglu, Daren, S. Johnson and J. Robinson (2001). “The Colonial Origins of Com- parative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” American Economic Review, 91(5): 1369-1401
- Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Jhonson and James Robinson (2005). “The Rise of Europe: At- lantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth,” American Economic Review, 95(3): 546-579
- Besley, Timothy (1996). “Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evi- dence from Ghana,” Journal of Political Economy, 103(5): 903-921
- Banerjee, Abhijit and Lakshimi Iyer (2005). “Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal,” Journal of Political Economy, 110(2): 239-280
- De Janvry, A. and Sadoulet, E. (2016). Development Economics: Theory and Prac- tice.Chapter 20
- Munshi, Kaivan and Mark Rosenzweig (2003). “Traditional Institutions Meet the Mod- ern World: Caste, Gender and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy,” American Economic Review, 96(4): 1225–1252
- Nunn, Nathan and Nancy Qian (2011). “The Potato’s Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from a Historical Experiment,” The Quarterly Journal of Eco- nomics, 126(2): 593-650. Background and Further Reading:
- Easterly, William and Ross Levine (1997). “Africa’s Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112(4): 1203-1250
- Levchenko, Andrei (2007). “Institutional Quality and International Trade,” Review of Economic Studies, 74(3): 791-819
- Pande, Rohini and Udry, Chris (2005). “Institutions and Development: A View from Below,” Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 928
- Credit, Savings and Insurance (time permitting)
- Besley, Thomas and Stephen Coate (1995). “Group Lending, Repayment Incentives and Social Collateral,” Journal of Development Economics, 46(1): 1-18
- Burgess, Robin and Rohini Pande (2005). “Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment,” American Economic Review, 95(3): 780-795
- Deaton, Angus and Paxon Christina (2000). “Growth and Savings among Individuals and Households,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 82(2): 212-225
- Jensen, Robert (2000). “Agricultural Volatility and Investments in Children,” American Economic Review, 90(2): 399-405
- Jayachandran, Seema (2006). “Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries,” Journal of Political Economy, 114(3): 538-575
- Udry, Chris (1994). “Risk and Insurance in Rural Credit Market: An Empirical Investi- gation in Northern Nigeria,” Review of Economic Studies, 61(3): 495-526
- Udry, Chris (1990). “Credit Markets in Northern Nigeria: Credit as Insurance in a Rural Economy,” World Bank Economic Review, 4(3): 251- 269
- Morduch, Jonathan (1999). “The Microfinance Promise,” Journal of Economic Litera- ture, 37(4): 1569-1614
- Banerjee, Abhijit, Dilip Mookherjee, Kaivan Munshi and Debraj Ray (2001). “Inequal- ity, Control Rights and Rent Seeking: Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra,” Journal of Political Economy, 109(1): 138-190
- Banerjee, Abhijit and Rohini Somanathan (2007). “The Political Economy of Public Goods: Some Evidence from India,” Journal of Development Economics,” 82(2): 287
- De Janvry, A. and Sadoulet, E. (2016). Development Economics: Theory and Prac- tice.Chapter 21
- Duflo, Esther and Raghabendra Chattapadhyaya (2004). “Women as Policy Makers, Evidence from Randomized Policy Experiment in India,” Econometrica, 72(5), 1409-1443
- Pande, Rohini (2003). “Can Mandated Political Representation Increase Policy Influence for Disadvantages Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India,” American Economic Review, 93(4): 1132-1151
- Khwaja, Asim and Atif Mian (2005). “Do Lenders Favor Politically Connected Firms? Rent Provision in an Emerging Financial Market,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(4): 1371-1411
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- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- 2016-Fall-ECON-513-LECTURE-A1 ↗2016
- 2017-Fall-ECON-513-LECTURE-A1 ↗2017
- 2018-Fall-ECON-513-LECTURE-A1 ↗2018
- 2021-Winter-ECON-513-LECTURE-B1 ↗2021
- 2022-Fall-ECON-513-LECTURE-A2 ↗2022
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