Handbook of Development Economics - Volume 4



  Handbook of Development Economics - Volume 4

Editors: T. Paul Schultz, John Strauss

 

I.                   New Insights into Rural and Agricultural Development

           

Chapter 1.     Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment

Authors: Andrew D. Foster, Brown University

                                          Mark R. Rosenzweig, Yale University

Latest Update: August 2006

Approximate number of words: 18644

Chapter 2.     Information Networks in Dynamic Agrarian Economies

                      Author: Kaivan Munshi, Brown University

                                      Latest Update: May 2007              

                      Approximate number of words: 13566                               

 

II.                  Public Goods and Issues of Political Economy: Theory and Evidence

 

Chapter 3.    Public Action for Public Goods

Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, MIT

                    Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard University

Rohini Somanathan, Delhi School of Economics

Latest Update: September 2006

Approximate number of words: 18327

Chapter 4.    Understanding Political Corruption in Low Income Countries

Author: Rohini Pande, Harvard University

Latest Update: May 5, 2007

Approximate number of words: 13995

III.               Human Resources and Household Responses to Market Incentives and Public Goods

Chapter 5.     Household Formation and Marriage Markets

                      Authors: Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University

                                    Agnes R. Quisumbing, IFPRI

Latest Update: January 2006

Approximate number of words: 25308

Chapter 6.     Population Policies, Fertility, Women's Human Capital, and Child Quality

                     Author: T. Paul Schultz, Yale University

Latest Update: April 4, 2007

Approximate number of words: 28047 (exact)

Chapter 7.    Health Economics for Low Income Countries

                                     Author: Germano Mwabu, University of Nairobi

Latest Update: January 5, 2007

Approximate number of words: 40170

Chapter 8.    Health over the Life Course

Authors: John Strauss, University of Southern California

               Duncan Thomas, UCLA

Latest Update: April 2007

Approximate number of words: 50737

Chapter 9.    Schooling in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy

                     Authors:   Peter F. Orazem, Iowa State University 

                                                     Elizabeth M. King, World Bank

Latest Update: April 12, 2007

Approximate number of words: 48481

Chapter 10.    The Impact of Child Health and Nutrition on Education in Less Developed Countries

                     Authors: Paul Glewwe, University of Minnesota

                      Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley

Latest Update: May 2007

Approximate number of words: 24522

Chapter 11.    Child Labor

                                       Author: Eric V. Edmonds, Dartmouth College

Latest Update: January 15, 2007

Approximate number of words: 64974

Chapter 12.    Extended Families and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions

                       Authors: Donald Cox, Boston College                          

Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University

Latest Update: July 2006

Approximate number of words: 32524

Program Evaluation: Methods and Applications

Chapter 13.    Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs

                      Author: Martin Ravallion, Development Research Group, World Bank

Latest Update: April 2007

Approximate number of words: 27900

Chapter 14.    Evaluating Social Programs with Endogenous Program Placement and Selection of the Treated

                 Author: Petra E. Todd, University of Pennsylvania

Latest Update: January 15, 2006

Approximate number of words: 20034

Chapter 15.    Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

                      Authors: Esther Duflo, MIT

                      Rachel Glennerster, MIT

                      Michael Kremer, Harvard University

Latest Update: December 12, 2006

Approximate number of words: 29832

Chapter 16.    Evaluating Conditional Schooling Health and Health Programs

                      Authors: Susan W. Parker, CIDE Mexico City

                      Luis Rubalcava, CIDE Mexico City

                     Graciela Teruel, Iberoamericana University, Mexico City

Latest Update: October 2006

Approximate number of words: 43836

                                                     

         

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