Readings in Development Microeconomics Vol. II : Empirical Microeconomics

by Pranab Bardhan and Christopher Udry

• ISBN13: 9780262522830
• ISBN10: 0262522837
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-13
• Publisher: Mit Pr

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