Topics
1.Rural Institutions
- Land
- Credit
- Insurance
2.Migration
3.Growth and development
- Dual Economy
- Complementarities
- Inequality
4.Institutions
- Corruption
- Political Economy
(See reading plan for details on reading materials)
Reading list
Books:
Ray, D., 1998, Development Economics, Princeton University Press.
Bardhan, P. & Udry, C. , 1999, Development Microeconomics. Oxford University Press Inc.
Articles:
Acemoglu, Daron and Robinson, James A. (2000) Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 115(4): p 1167-1199.
Andvig, Jens Chr. and Karl Ove Moene (1990), "How Corruption May Corrupt Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization." 13(1): p 63-76
Banerjee, A.V., P. Gertler and M. Ghatak (2002): Empowerment and Efficiency - Tenancy Reform in West Bengal, Journal of Political Economy.
Banerjee, Duflo, Glennerster and Kinnan (2009): The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Working paper.
Banerjee, and A. F. Newman: Occupational Choice and the Process of Development. Journal of Political Economy 101 (1993), pp. 274–298
Besley, T. and R. Burgess(2000): Land Reform, Poverty and Growth: Evidence from India Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(2), pp. 389-430
Burgess, R., and R. Pande: Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment American Economic Review, 95(3), 2005.
Kremer, M. (1993) The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development Quarterly Journal of Economics. 108(3): p 551-575.
Mehlum, H, K Moene and R Torvik (2006): Parasites in Sam Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, and Karla Hoff (ed.) "Poverty traps", Princeton UniversityPress, Princeton and Oxford. Pp. 79-94.
Murphy, K. A. Shleifer and R. Vishny (1989) Industrialization and the big push, Journal of Political Economy 97, p 1003-1026.
Townsend, Robert (1994), Risk and Insurance in Village India. Econometrica 62(3), 539–591