Readings in Development Microeconomics Vol. II : Empirical Microeconomics,9780262522830

Readings in Development Microeconomics Vol. II : Empirical Microeconomics

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ISBN13: 9780262522830
ISBN10: 0262522837
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-11-13
Publisher(s): Mit Pr
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Summary

These two volumes of readings attempt to bring some degree of structure to a relatively diffuse field. Because of the sheer volume of high-quality work in development economics research, they are intended as a sampling of work at the frontier of the field, rather than as a comprehensive overview. Volume II: Empirical Microeconomicsfocuses on empirical work. Topics covered include the relationship between wages and health, the role of human capital and demographic change, the internal structure of households, information imperfections in factor markets, the permanent income hypothesis, the possibility of Pareto-efficient allocation of risk in villages, and the relationship between property rights and investment decisions.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Health and Wages: Evidence on Men and Women in Urban Brazil
1(32)
Duncan Thomas
John Strauss
Population Growth and Human Capital Investments: Theory and Evidence
33(36)
Mark R. Rosenzweig
Intra-Household Resource Allocation: An Inferential Approach
69(30)
Duncan Thomas
Gender, Agricultural Production, and the Theory of the Household
99(40)
Christopher Udry
Testing between Competing Models of Sharecropping
139(32)
Radwan Ali Shaban
A Test for Moral Hazard in the Labor Market: Contractual Arrangements, Effort, and Health
171(26)
Andrew D. Foster
Mark R. Rosenzweig
Using Weather Variability to Estimate the Response of Savings to Transitory Income in Thailand
197(32)
Christina H. Paxson
Credit Market Constraints, Consumption Smoothing, and the Accumulation of Durable Production Assets in Low-Income Countries: Investments in Bullocks in India
229(24)
Mark R. Rosenweig
Kenneth I. Wolpin
Risk and Insurance in Village India
253(66)
Robert M. Townsend
Intertemporal Choice and Inequality
319(34)
Angus Deaton
Christina Paxson
Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture
353(36)
Andrew D. Foster
Mark R. Rosenzweig
Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana
389(38)
Timothy Besley
Sources 427(2)
Subject Index 429(4)
Author Index 433

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