Syllabus/achievement requirements

Main Book:

Ray, D., 1998, Development Economics, Princeton University Press. Chapters 7, 10.3, 11, 12, 13.1-13.4, 14 and 15.

 

Articles:

Alm?s, Ingvild.  International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food,  American Economic Review, 102 (2) 2012, 1093-1117.

Banerjee A. and Duflo, E. (2010). Giving credit where it is due, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24 (3): 61-80.

Banerjee, A., Duflo, E. (2007). “The Economic Lives of the Poor.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(1), pp. 141-167.

Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia Kinnan (2014) "The miracle of micro finance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation." Mimeo MIT: 

Besley, T., Coate, S., Loury, G. (1993), “The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations,” American Economic Review , 83(4), pp. 792–810.

Cole, S., X. Gine, J. Tobacman, P. Topalova, R. Townsend, and J. Vickery (2013). Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5 (1): 104–135.

Dell, M., B. Jones and B. Olken (2012), Temperature shocks and economic growth: Evidence from the last half century, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 4 (3): 66-95.

Dupas, Pascaline and Jonathan Robinson (2013), “Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments,” American Economic Review 103 (4): 1138-1171.

Easterly, W. (2007), Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument, Journal of Development Economics, 84 (2), 755–776.

Finseraas, H. and A. Kotsadam (2013). Hvordan identifisere ?rsakssammenhenger i ikke-eksperimentelle data? En ikke-teknisk introduksjon or Kotsadam, A (2013). Lecture Notes on Empirical Methods in Development Economics

Fortson, J. (2010), Mortality Risk and Human Capital Investment: The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, Review of Economics and Statistics, 93 (1): 1-15.

Harttgen, K., S. Klasen, and S. Vollmer (2013), Economic Growth and Child Undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, Population and Development Review, 39 (3): 397–412.

Jensen, R. and Oster, E. (2009). The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124 (3): 1057-1094.

Mehlum, H., K. Moene, and R. Torvik (2006a). Institutions and the Resource Curse, The Economic Journal, 116 (508): 1–20.

Michalopoulos S. and E. Papaioannou (2013). Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development, Econometrica,  81(1): 113–152

Milanovic, B. (2002). "True World Income Distribution, 1988 and 1993: First Calculation Based on Household Surveys Alone". The Economic Journal 112 (476): 51. doi:10.1111/1468-0297.0j673

Padró i Miquel, Gerard (2007) “The Control of Politicians in Divided Societies: The Politics of Fear”. The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 74, No. 4 (Oct., 2007), pp. 1259-1274

Qian, N. (2008), Missing women and the price of tea in China: The effect of sex-specific earnings on sex imbalance, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(3): 1251-1285.

Ravallion, M., S. Chen, and P. Sangraula (2007). New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty, Population and Development Review, 33 (4):  667–701.

Shaban, R. (1987), Testing between competing models of sharecropping, The Journal of Political Economy, 95 (5): 893-920.

van der Ploeg, F. (2011), "Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing?", Journal of Economic Literature 49(2).

 

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