Topics
1.Rural Institutions
- Credit
- Insurance
2.Migration
3.Growth and development
- Gender and Development
- Inequality
- Effects of the slave trade
4.Institutions
- Institutions and long run growth
- Corruption
- Political and cultural change
(See reading plan for updates and details on reading materials)
Reading list
Main Book:
Ray, D., 1998, Development Economics, Princeton University Press. Chapter 5,7,14 and 15
Articles:
Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson, and J. A. Robinson (2001). The colonial origins of comparative development: an empirical investigation, American Economic Review 91(5), 1369-1401.
Banarjee A. and Duflo, E. (2010). Giving credit where it is due, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24(3):61-80.
Beaman, L. Chattopadhyay, R. Duflo, E., Pande, R, and Topolova P. (2009). Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias? Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124 (4): 1497-1540.
Burgess, R., and R. Pande: Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment , American Economic Review, 95(3), 2005.
Duflo E. (2012), WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, NBER Working Paper 17702
Duflo et al. (2006), Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit., J-PAL Working paper.
Galor O. Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development. 2012 IZA Discussion Paper No. 6328. January
Glaeser E, La Porta L., Lopez-de-silanes F., and Schleifer, A. Do institutions cause growth? Journal of Economic Growth, Vol. 9(3): 271-303.
Imbens, G. Better Late than Nothing: Some Comments on Deaton (2009) and Heckman and Urzua (2009) NBER Working Paper 14896.
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, R. Torvik (2006). Cursed by Resources or Institutions? The World Economy 29, pp. 1117-1131
Michalopoulos S. and Papaioannou, E.(2012),Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development, NBER Working Paper 18224.
Nunn, N. and Wantchekon (2009), The slave trade and the origins of mistrust in Africa , NBER working paper.
Olken, B, and Pande R. (2011) Corruption in Developing Countries , NBER Working Paper 17398.
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.
van der Ploeg (2011), Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing?, Journal of Economic Literature 49(2).