Ec 1530 Reading List

Becker Chapters 1 and 2

J. Angrist and A. Krueger "Instrumental variables and the search for identification: From supply and demand to natural experiments" J of Economic Perspectives 15(4):69‐85 2001

Banerjee and Duflo, 2011, Chapters 1 and 2

Pitt, Mark, "Food Preferences and Nutrition in Rural Bangladesh," Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1983, 105‐114. [JSTOR]

Jensen, Robert and Nolan Miller (2008). “Giffen Behavior and Subsistence Consumption,” American Economic Review, 98(4), p. 1553 − 1577. [jstor]

M. Ravallion, "The performance of rice markets in Bangladesh during the 1974 famine", Oxford Economic Journal 95 (377): 15‐29

A.D. Foster, "Prices, Credit Constraints, and Child Growth in Rural Bangladesh", Economic. Journal, 105(430): 551‐570, May 1995

JM Cunha, G DeGiorgi, S Jayachandran, NBER 17456The Price Effects of Cash Versus In‐Kind Transfers

Banerjee and Duflo, Chapter 3

'Bliss, Christopher and N.H. Stern, "Productivity, Wages and Nutrition, Part I Journal of Development Economics, 1978, 331‐398. [E‐journal]

J. Strauss, "Does better nutrion raise farm productivity", JPE, 94(2) 297‐320.

Foster, Andrew D. and Mark R. Rosenzweig, "A Test for Moral Hazard in the Labor Market: Contractual Arrangements, Effort and Health," Review of Economic and Statistics, May 1994, 213‐227. [JSTOR]

Banerjee and Duflo Chapter 4

Andrew Foster and Mark Rosenzweig, "Technical change and human capital returns and investments: Evidence from the Green Revoloution", American Economic Review 86(4): 931‐53 [jstor]

Esther Duflo "Schooling and labor market consequences of school construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an unusual policy experement", American Economic Review 91(4):795‐813 [jstor]

Jensen, Robert (2010). “The (Perceived) Returns to Education and the Demand for Schooling," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(2), p. 515‐548.[jstor] Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel, "The illusion of sustainability" Quarterly Journal of Economics 122 (3): 1007‐1065 [jstor]

Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro, "Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia", American Economic Review 100:2383‐2413. [jstor]

Pascaline Dupas, “Short‐Run Subsidies and Long‐Run Adoption of New Health Products: Evidence from a Field Experiment,” draft (2010)

Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer, and Kenneth Leonard, "The quality of medical advice in low‐income countries", Journal of Economic Perspectives 22(2): 93‐114 [jstor]

Bennett, Daniel. "Clean Water Makes You Dirty: Water Supply and Sanitation Behavior in the Philippines" November 2007 (on‐course homepage)

Banerjee and Duflo, Chapters 5

Becker, Gary, A Treatise on the Family, Harvard University Press, 1991. Chapter 5.

Rosenzweig, Mark R., "Population Growth and Human Capital Investments: Theory and Evidence," Journal of Political Economy, October 1990 (supplement), S38‐S70. [JSTOR]

Grant Miller, "Contraception as Development? New evidence from family planning in Columbia", Economic Journal 120 (545): 709‐36.

S. Baird, C. McIntosh, and B Ozler, "Cash or condition? Evidence from a cash transfer experiment", World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No 5259

Ronald Lee and Tim Miller, Population Policy and externalities to childbearing, 510: 173‐32.

Thirumurthy, Harsha, Joshua Graff Zivin and Markus Goldstein. "The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya." February 2007. http://www.saga.comell.edu/sagalaercconf/thirumurthy.pdf

Thornton, Rebecca L. 2008. "The Demand for, and Impact of, Learning HIV Status." American Economic Review, 98(5): 1829–63.

Wilson, Nicholas. "Antiretroviral Therapy and Demand for HIV Testing: Evidence from Zambia," December 2007. Available on course home page.

Canning, David. "The Economics of HIVIAIDS in Low‐Income Countries: The Case for Prevention," Journal of Economic Perspectives. Volume 20, Number (Summer 2006), 121‐142. Ejournal.

Pascaline Dupas, “Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (1) (January 2011): 1—36. 28 Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, and Michael Kremer “Education, HIV, and and HIV/AIDS Prevention, and Early Fertility: Evidence from Kenya", working paper

Lundberg, Shelley and Robert Pollak, "Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage" Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10:4 (Autumn 1996), 139‐158. [E‐journal]

Strauss, John and Kathleen Beegle, "Intrahousehold Allocation: A Review of Theories, Empirical Evidence and Policy Issues," May 1996. Available on course home page.

Thomas, Duncan, "Intra‐Household Resource Allocation: An Inferential Approach," Journal of Human Resources Fall 1990,635‐664. [JSTOR]

Vijayendra Rao: The Rising Price of Husbands: A Hedonic Analysis of Dowry Increases in Rural India

Anderson, Siwan. "The Economics of Dowry and Brideprice." Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 21, Number 4,151‐174. E‐journal

A. Deaton and C. Paxson, "Economies of scale, household size, and the demand for food", JPE, 106(5): 897‐930

Pitt, Mark M., "The Specification and Estimation ofthe Demand for Goods Within the Household," in Harold Alderman and Lawrence Haddad (editors), Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Policy Issues and Research Methods, 1997, 19‐38.

Andrew Foster and Mark Rosenzweig, Missing women, the marriage market, and economic growth

Rosenzweig, Mark R. and T.P. Schultz, "Market Opportunities, Genetic Endowments, and Intrafamily Resource Distribution: Child Survival in Rural India," American Economic Review, September 1982. [JSTOR]

Pitt, Mark M., Mark R. Rosenzweig, and Nazmul Hassan. Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn‐Based Economy, Feb 2011 http://www.pstc.brown.edu/~mp/papers/BrawnEconomy.pdf