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., 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 (2015) "The miracle of micro finance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(1): 22-53.
- Berman, B., M. Couttenier, D. Rohner, and M. Thoenig (2016): "This mine is mine! How mineral fuel conflicts in Africa", Forthcoming, American Economic Review
- 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.
- Easterly, W. (2007), Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument, Journal of Development Economics, 84 (2), 755–776.
- Henderson, J. V., Storeygard, A. & Weil, D. N., 2012, “Measuring economic growth from outer space”. American Economic Review 102, 994–1028.
- 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.
- Kremer, M., and R. Glennerster (2010). "Improving Health in Developing Countries: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations." Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2, 2011, Pages 201–315.
- Mehlum, H., K. Moene, and R. Torvik (2006a). Institutions and the Resource Curse, The Economic Journal, 116 (508): 1–20.
- 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
- Murphy, Kevin M, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W Vishny. 1989. “Industrialization and the Big Push” Journal of Political Economy 97 (5): 1003-1026.
- 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.
- Shaban, R. (1987), Testing between competing models of sharecropping, The Journal of Political Economy, 95 (5): 893-920.
- Somville, V. and Lore Vandewalle (2015), Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India, Geneva: The Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development (IHEID Working Paper no. 01-2015).
- Temple, J. R.W. 2010. "Aid and Conditionality", In: Dani Rodrik and Mark Rosenzweig, Editor(s), Handbook of Development Economics, Elsevier, 2010, Volume 5, Pages 4415-4523
Methodology background
- 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
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