Syllabus, Spring 2012
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: THEORY, POLICY AND EVIDENCE
PED 101 & Economics 2327
Class: Monday/Wednesday 11:40am-1:00pm, Starr Auditorium
Review sessions: Friday 1:10-2:30am, and/or 2:40am-4:00pm, L230
First day of class is Monday, January 23rd
Professor Rohini Pande
Rubenstein -318
Office hours: Monday 4-6 PM
(please sign up on sheet outside L-315)
Assistant: Jennifer Hoegen
Office: Rubenstein -310G
Email: [email protected]
Professor Dani Rodrik
Littauer L-212
Office hours: Tuesday 10-11:30 am
(please sign up on sheet outside L-212)
Assistant: Julie DeBenedictis
Office: Littauer-209
Email: [email protected]
COURSE INFORMATION
This course provides a graduate-level overview of the theory of, and evidence on, economic
development and the design of development policy. The main aim is to evaluate policy design
that pertains to economic growth and development from a broad and rigorous analytical base.
Topics covered include: contemporary and historic features of development; long-run differences
in growth; investments in human and financial capital; total factor productivity; and institutional
determinants of development and governance.
Teaching fellow: Anitha Sivasankaran [email protected] Course assistants:
Augustina Schijman: [email protected]
Xiaochen Fu: [email protected]
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COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING
The course grade will be based on the following, with weights in parentheses:
Mid-term examination (30%)
Final examination (50%)
Four assignments (20%)
The assignments and examinations have been designed to provide students with complimentary
(but not identical) skills for evaluating development issues and designing policy responses.
Students are expected to attend one class section on Friday; these sections will review lectures
and provide theory and econometric guidance for a better understanding of course material and
preparation for exams.
Class discussion is strongly encouraged and students should have read and bring copies of the
required reading to class.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The reading list below indicates the URLs for those papers that can be downloaded from the
internet. The majority of the papers and articles for this course are available online and are
easily accessible through the links posted on the HKS class page. All further reading that is not
available online will be placed on reserve in the HKS library. Please check the class page
frequently for announcements and other information. (Students who register for this course
through FAS should see Julie DeBenedictis to get access to the class page.)
CROSS REGISTRATION:
The class is part of the core requirements for students in the MPA/ID program. Students in other
programs who would like to enroll in the class should attend the first class and submit a
permission to enroll form. Those not enrolled in the MPA/ID program will receive notification
on the approval to enroll in the course within 7-10 days after the course begins. Auditors will
not be allowed.
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IMPORTANT DATES AND COURSE STRUCTURE
Day Date Topic Professor
1 Mon Jan 23 Policy design for the poor: A case-study Pande & Rodrik
2 Wed Jan 25 Policy design for the poor: The big issues Pande & Rodrik
3 Mon Jan 30 Accounting for long-run income differentials Rodrik
4 Wed Feb 1 The Industrial Revolution Rodrik
5 Fri Feb 3 (1:10pm) Growth accelerations and collapses Rodrik
6 Mon Feb 6 Productivity growth through structural change Rodrik
Wed Feb 8 [Review session (in lieu of Feb. 3)]
Fri Feb 10 ASSIGNMENT 1 DUE
7 Mon Feb 13 Productivity growth through learning Rodrik
8 Wed Feb 15 Coordination failures and the “big push” Rodrik
Mon Feb 20 *** Presidents’ Day Holiday ***
9 Wed Feb 22 Human capital: Health and Education Pande
10 Mon Feb 27 Human capital: Health and Education Pande
11 Wed Feb 29 Human capital: Health and Education Pande
Fri Mar 2 ASSIGNMENT #2 DUE
12 Mon Mar 5 MIDTERM EXAM
Wed Mar 7 NO CLASS
***SPRING BREAK Mar 10-18***
13 Mon Mar 19 Financial Capital Pande
14 Wed Mar 21 Financial Capital Pande
15 Fri Mar 23 (1:10pm) Policy Interlude I – history, designing development aid Pande & Rodrik
16 Mon Mar 26 The institutional context: Families to institutions Pande
17 Wed Mar 28 The institutional context: Governance and Development Pande
18 Mon Apr 2 The institutional context: Governance reform Pande
19 Wed Apr 4 The institutional context: Governance reform Rodrik
Fri Apr 6 ASSIGNMENT #3 DUE
20 Mon Apr 9 Policy Interlude II – designing domestic institutions Pande & Rodrik
21 Wed Apr 11 Growth Strategies Rodrik
22 Mon Apr 16 The global context: Financial globalization and crises Rodrik
23 Wed Apr 18 The global context: Sustainable development Pande
24 Mon Apr 23 ASSIGNMENT #4 DUE
Mon Apr 23 Policy interlude III – designing regulatory institutions Pande & Rodrik
25 Wed Apr 25 Policy design for the poor: wrap up Pande & Rodrik
***Reading Period Begins 4/28/12-05/1/12**
FINAL EXAM TIME
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READINGS
Required readings are marked with a star (*), recommended readings are not starred.
Most readings are available online, and can be found on the class page. Readings not available
online can be found on reserve at the HKS library.
COURSE OUTLINE AND READINGS
A. Development strategies: Policy design for the poor (RP/DR, Jan. 23, 25)
Class Handout – Jan. 23rd
i. How are the poor different?
* Banerjee, Abhijit and Esther Duflo, “The Economic Lives of the Poor,” Journal of Economic
Perspectives, 2007, 21(1), 141-167.
http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.21.1.141
* Chaudhury, Nazmul, Jeffrey Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Muralidharan, and F. Halsey
Rogers, “Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries,”
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2006, 20:1, 91-116.
http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/089533006776526058
Svensson, Jakob, “Eight Questions about Corruption,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005,
19:3, 19-42.
http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/089533005774357860
Olken, Ben and Monica Singhal. “Informal Taxation,” American Economic Journal: Applied
Economics, 2011, 3 (4), pp. 1-28. http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/6398
Besley, Timothy and Torsten Persson (2011). “Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of
Development Clusters.” Chapter 1 – “Development Clusters” Princeton University Press.
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9624.pdf
ii. Poverty, growth, social indicators and distribution
* Pritchett, Lant, “Divergence, Big Time,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1997. p.
3-17.
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* Ferreira, Francisco H.G. and Martin Ravallion, “Global poverty and inequality: a review of the
evidence,” Policy Research Working Paper Series 4623, The World Bank, 2008.
http://www-
wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2008/05/19/000158349_20080519142
850/Rendered/PDF/wps4623.pdf
* Deaton, Angus, "Global patterns of income and health: facts, interpretations, and policies,”
WIDER Annual Lecture, September 2006.
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/annual-lectures/en_GB/AL10/
Deaton, Angus, “Income, aging, health and wellbeing around the world: Evidence from the
Gallup World Poll,” in Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, ed.
University of Chicago Press, 2010. (On Reserve)
Maddison, Angus, The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, OECD Development Centre,
Paris, OECD, 2001. (On Reserve)
Dasgupta, Partha, “The Place of Nature in Economic Development,” in D. Rodrik and M.
Rosenzweig, eds., Handbook of Development Economics, vol. 5, North-Holland, 2009.
http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B7P5D-4YY9BJS-K-
1V&_cdi=24600&_user=209690&_pii=B9780444529442000124&_origin=browse&_coverDate
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zSkWA&md5=41ce4ca898c062138410da89a317f276&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
Bourguignon, F. and C. Morrison, “Inequality Among World Citizens,” American Economic
Review, 92 (4), 2002, pp.727-744.
http://www.aeaweb.org.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/articles.php?doi=10.1257/00028280260344443
Basu, Kaushik, “On the Goals of Development,” in G.M. Meier and J.E. Stiglitz, eds., Frontiers
of Development Economics, New York, Oxford University Press, 2001, 61-86.
http://books.google.com/books?id=h7_VQj2OAHoC&lpg=PA61&ots=AVhCXutLNe&pg=PA6
1#v=onepage&q&f=false
B. Accounting for long-run income level differences across countries (DR, January 30)
* Caselli, Francesco, “Accounting for Income Differences Across Countries,” chapter 9 in the
Handbook of Economic Growth Vol. 1A, P. Aghion and S. Durlauf, eds., North Holland, 2005.
(On Reserve)
* Weil, David, “Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth,” Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 2007.
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/detail?hid=11&sid=19d4b35e-4ae8-
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Rl#db=bth&AN=25953485
* Bosworth, Barry and Susan M. Collins, “The Empirics of Growth: An Update,” Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, 2003: 2.
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/detail?hid=11&sid=942810ae-ad20-
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Rl#db=bth&AN=12347943
Jones, Charles I., Introduction to Economic Growth, W.W. Norton, 2002, chaps. 2, 3, and 8.
(On reserve)
Mankiw, N. Gregory, David Romer, and David N. Weil, “A Contribution to the Empirics of
Economic Growth,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107(2). (May, 1992), pp. 407-437.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/2118477
Hall, Robert E. and Charles I. Jones (1999), “Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More
Output Per Worker Than Others?” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 114: 83-116. http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=d8d44f20-b9f6-
4f9f-b6ec-991b54f61db9%40sessionmgr104&vid=4&hid=126
Hsieh, Chang-Tai and Peter Klenow, “Relative Prices and Relative Prosperity,” American
Economic Review, June 2007.
http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.97.3.562
C. The growth record (DR, February 1, 3)
i. The Industrial Revolution (DR, Feb. 1)
* Mokyr, Joel, "Editor's Introduction: The New Economic History and the Industrial
Revolution,” in Joel Mokyr, ed., The British Industrial Revolution: an Economic Perspective.
Boulder: Westview Press, 2nd ed., 1999, pp. 1-127. (On Reserve)
* Clark, Gregory, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, Princeton
University Press, 2007, chaps. 10-13. (On Reserve)
Galor, Oded and Andrew Mountford, “Trading Population for Productivity: Theory and
Evidence”, Review of Economic Studies, 75(4), October 2008, 1143-1179.
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/detail?hid=21&sid=3f89a605-3d5a-
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l#db=bth&AN=34188631
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Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2002. “The Rise of Europe:
Institutional Change and Economic Growth,” American Economic Review, June 2005.
http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/0002828054201305
Engerman, Stanley L. and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Factor Endowments, Institutions and
Differential paths of Growth among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians
of the United States,” in Stephen Huber, ed., How Latin America Fell Behind, Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1997, and NBER Working Papers Series on Historical Factors in Long-Run
Growth, No. 66, December 1994
http://www.nyu.edu/econ/user/debraj/Courses/Readings/EngermanSokoloff.pdf
North, Douglass C., Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, New York,
Cambridge University Press, 1990. (On Reserve)
ii. Growth accelerations (and collapses) (DR, Feb. 3)
* Rodrik, Dani, "Getting interventions right: how South Korea and Taiwan grew rich," Economic
Policy, April 1995, Vol. 10 Issue 1, pp. 55-107. http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/detail?hid=112&sid=ee55cc4b-7fef-4cfc-8838-
c9353c181b27%40sessionmgr115&vid=1&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1za
XRl#db=bth&AN=14809067
* Qian, Yingyi, “The Process of China's Market Transition (1978-1998): The Evolutionary,
Historical, and Comparative Perspectives.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics,
March 2000, 156(1), pp. 151-171. (Posted on course page)
* Hausmann, Ricardo, Lant Pritchett, and Dani Rodrik, “Growth Accelerations,” Journal of
Economic Growth, 10(4), December 2005, 303 – 329.
http://www.springerlink.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/p7n3578732010041/fulltext.pdf
* Jones, B. and Olken, B., “The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth,” The Review of Economics and
Statistics, 2007.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdf/10.1162/rest.90.3.582
Kochhar, Kalpana, Utsav Kumar, Raghuram Rajan, Arvind Subramanian, and Ioannis Tokatlidis,
“India‟s Pattern of Development: What Happened, What Follows,” NBER Working Paper
12023, February 2006. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2006/wp0622.pdf
Young, Alwyn, “A Tale of Two Cities: Factor Accumulation and Technical Change in Hong
Kong and Singapore,” NBER Macroeconomics Annual, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press for NBER,
1992.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/3584993
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Amsden, Alice H., Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization, Oxford University
Press, New York and Oxford, 1989.
http://books.google.com/books?id=f0hDv51qS6MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=asia's+next+giant
+amsden&source=bl&ots=lFzEYFM5OI&sig=ElLMI9nSiaqsjRipe80ohiaJR-
E&hl=en&ei=8oonTeyWLYL_8Abfl-
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false
Bai, Chong-en, Chang-Tai Hsieh, and Yingyi Qian, “The Return to Capital in China,” Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, 2006.
http://proquest.umi.com.ezp-
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1&clientid=18857&vname=PQD&RQT=309&did=1237298241&scaling=FULL&vtype=PQD&
rqt=309&TS=1294695153&clientId=18857
Whyte, Martin King, “A Sociological Perspective on China‟s Development Record,” Department
of Sociology, Harvard University, November 2007.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/Archive%20Files/Whyte_RuleAndReformInTheGiants_Har
vard_2007.pdf
DeLong, Brad, “India since Independence: An Analytic Growth Narrative,” in Dani Rodrik, ed.,
In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives of Economic Growth, Princeton, NJ, Princeton
University Press, 2003. (On Reserve)
Rodrik, Dani and Arvind Subramanian, “From „Hindu Growth‟ to Productivity Surge: The
Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition,” IMF Staff Papers, vol. 52, no. 2, 2005.
http://www.imf.org/External/Pubs/FT/staffp/2005/02/pdf/rodrik1.pdf
Easterly, William, Michael Kremer, Lant Pritchett and Lawrence H. Summers, “Good Policy or
Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks,” Journal of Monetary
Economics 32(3), 1993, 459-483.
Direct link to PDF - http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VBW-458XPFR-6-
1&_cdi=5937&_user=209690&_pii=030439329390026C&_origin=search&_zone=rslt_list_item
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zSkWb&md5=24339c2f4a9b87bea3f43592806a239e&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
Rodrik, Dani, “Where Did All the Growth Go? External Shocks, Social Conflict and Growth
Collapses,” Journal of Economic Growth, December 1999.
http://www.springerlink.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/gx121224uw91l321/fulltext.pdf
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D. Understanding productivity change (DR, Feb. 6, 13, 15)
i. Productivity growth through structural change (DR, Feb. 6)
* Matsuyama, Kiminori, “Agricultural Productivity, Comparative Advantage, and Economic
Growth,” Journal of Economic Theory, December 1992, 317-334. http://www.nber.org/papers/w3606
* Hsieh, Chang-Tai and Peter J. Klenow, “Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and
India,” NBER Working Paper No. 13290, August 2007. https://www.nber.org/papers/w13290
* McMillan, Margaret and Dani Rodrik, “Globalization, Structural Change, and Productivity
Growth,” NBER Working Paper No. 17143, June 2011
(http://www.nber.org/papers/w17143.pdf).
Banerjee, Abhijit and Esther Duflo, “Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development
Economics,” chapter 7 in the Handbook of Economic Growth Vol. 1A, P. Aghion and S. Durlauf,
eds., North Holland, 2005. (On Reserve)
Dani Rodrik, “Unconditional Convergence,” NBER Working Paper No. 17546, October 2011
(http://www.nber.org/papers/w17546.pdf).
Harrison, Ann and Andres Rodriguez-Clare, “Trade, Foreign Investment and Industrial Policy in
Developing Countries,” in D. Rodrik and M. Rosenzweig, eds., Handbook of Development
Economics, vol. 5, North-Holland, 2009. (On Reserve)
Bartelsman, Eric, John Haltiwanger, and Stefano Scarpetta "Cross Country Differences in
Productivity: The Role of Allocative Efficiency,” November 2009.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w15490.pdf
Imbs, Jean, and Romain Wacziarg, “Stages of Diversification,” American Economic Review,
93(1), March 2003, 63-86. http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/000282803321455160
ii. Productivity growth through learning (DR, Feb. 13)
* Acemoglu, Daron, Philippe Aghion, and Fabrizio Zilibotti, “Distance to Frontier, Selection,
and Economic Growth,” NBER Working Paper No. 9066, July 2002.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w9066
* Hausmann, Ricardo and Dani Rodrik, “Economic Development as Self-Discovery,” Journal of
Development Economics, December 2003. http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VBV-49BY2MW-
1&_user=209690&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2003&_rdoc=10&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_or
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userid=209690&md5=518de3c8896de3bb01d6f7d36363b7d5&searchtype=a
Aghion, Philippe, Robin Burgess, Stephen Redding, and Fabrizio Zilibotti (2008). “The Unequal
Effects of Liberalization: Theory and Evidence from India,” American Economic Review, 98(4),
1397-1412.
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Hausmann, Ricardo, Jason Hwang, and Dani Rodrik, “What You Export Matters,” Journal of
Economic Growth, 2007. http://www.springerlink.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/g27l546718002473/fulltext.pdf
Cadot, Olivier, Céline Carrère, and Vanessa Strauss-Kahn, “Export Diversification: What‟s
behind the Hump?” November 2007.
http://www.hec.unil.ch/ocadot/PAPERS/Carrere_Strauss_Cadot_2007.pdf
iii. Coordination failures and the “Big Push” (DR, Feb. 15)
* Murphy, Kevin M., Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny, “Industrialization and the Big
Push,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 97 (5), 1989, pp. 1003-26.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1831884
Rosenstein-Rodan, Paul N., "Problems of Industrialization of Eastern and South- Eastern
Europe", Economic Journal, 1943. http://www.jstor.org.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/2226317.pdf
Hoff, Karla and Joseph Stiglitz, “Modern Economic Theory and Development,” in G.M. Meier
and J.E. Stiglitz, eds., Frontiers of Development Economics, New York, Oxford University
Press, 2001, 389-459. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DEC/Resources/hoff-stiglitz-
frontiersofdevec.pdf
E. From growth theory to development theory: human and financial capital (RP)
Health and Education (RP, February 22, 27 and 29)
i. Poverty Traps and Returns to Health
* Subramanian, Shankar and Angus Deaton (1996), "The Demand for Food and Calories,"
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 104 (1), pp 133-62. . http://www.jstor.org.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/sici?sici=0022-
3808%28199602%29104%3A1%3C133%3ATDFFAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
* Ray, Debraj (1998) “Development Economics" Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp
272- 279, 489-504. (On Reserve)
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Jensen, Robert T. and Nolan Miller (2008), Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve
Nutrition? Kennedy School Working Paper No. RWP08-025, 2008.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centers-
programs/centers/cid/publications/faculty/wp/160.pdf
Bleakley, Hoyt. “Health, Human Capital, and Development”, Annual Reviews of Economics,
2010, 2: 283-310.
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.economics.102308.124436
Kremer, Michael and Edward Miguel , “Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in
the Presence of Treatment Externalities,” Econometrica 72(1), January 2004, pp. 159-217.
http://proquest.umi.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/pqdweb?did=575939591&sid=1&Fmt=6&clientId=11201&RQT=309&V
Name=PQD
ii. Health Investments and Health Policy
Individual Behavior
*Dupas, Pascaline. “Health Behavior in Developing Countries”. Annual Review of Economics,
2011, 3: 425-449. http://www.stanford.edu/~pdupas/AR_health_behavior.pdf
Provider Behavior
Berendes S, Heywood P, Oliver S, Garner P (2011). “Quality of Private and Public Ambulatory
Health Care in Low and Middle Income Countries: Systematic Review of Comparative Studies”.
PLoS Med 8(4): e1000433. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000433
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000433
Das, Jishnu, Jeffrey Hammer and Kenneth Leonard (2008). “The Quality of Medical Advice in
Low-Income Countries.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22(2), pp. 93-114.
http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.22.2.93
Designing Health Policy
Kremer, Michael and Alaka Hola, “Pricing and Access: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations
in Education and Health”. Brookings Global Economy and Development Conference, 2008.
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/events/2008/0529_global_development/2008_kremer.p
df
*Kremer , Michael and Edward Miguel, "Illusion of Sustainability" Quarterly Journal of
Economics. vol. 122, issue 3, pages 1007-1065, 2007.
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Galiani, S., P. Gertler and E. Schargrodsky, “Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of
Water Services on Child Mortality,” Journal of Political Economy, 2005, Vol. 113(1), 83-120.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/426041
ii. Returns to Education
*Duflo, Esther, “Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in
Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment,” American Economic Review, Vol. 91,
No. 4, September 2001, pp. 795-813. http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-
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Heterogeneity in Returns
Card, David and Alan B. Krueger (1992). "Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education
and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States." Journal of Political Economy,
Vol. 100, Issue 1, p1-40.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/2138804.pdf
Growth and Education
Foster, Andrew and Mark Rosenzweig (1996), “Technical Change and Human-Capital Returns
and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution”, American Economic Review, 84(4),
931-953.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/2118312.pdf
Policy Responses:
Information
*Jensen, Robert, (2010), “The (Perceived) Return to Education and the Demand for
Schooling”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(2), p. 515-548.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdf/10.1162/qjec.2010.125.2.515 Andrabi, Tahir, Jishnu Das and Asim Ijaz Khwaja (2009). “Report Cards: The Impact of
Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets.” Working Paper.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/akhwaja/papers/RC_08Oct09Full.pdf
Incentives for Parents
Schultz, T. Paul, "School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty
Program," Journal of Development Economics 74(1), 2004, 199-250.
http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VBV-4BT1V2X-2-
N&_cdi=5936&_user=209690&_pii=S0304387803001858&_origin=browse&_zone=rslt_list_it
em&_coverDate=06%2F30%2F2004&_sk=999259998&wchp=dGLzVlb-
zSkzV&md5=a1b395ebd30f6daedefa00e88f27c6be&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
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Incentives for Providers
* Duflo, Esther, Rema Hanna and Stephen Ryan, “Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come
to School,” American Economic Review forthcoming, 2012. http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/5995
Muralidharan, Karthik and Venkatesh Sundararaman (2011). "Teacher Performance Pay:
Experimental Evidence from India". Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 119, No. 1, pp. 39-77.
http://econ.ucsd.edu/~kamurali/papers/Published%20Articles/Teacher%20Performance%20Pay
%20(Final%20Pre-Publication%20Version).pdf
Market Design:
*Angrist, Joshua, Eric Bettinger, and Michael Kremer, (2006). “Long-Term Educational
Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in
Colombia,” American Economic Review. Volume 96(3), pp. 847-862.
http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.96.3.847
*Angrist, Joshua, Eric Bettinger, Erik Bloom, Michael Kremer and Elizabeth King (2002).
“Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from Randomized Natural
Experiments,” The American Economic Review, December, Volume 92(5), pp.1535-1558.
http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/000282802762024629
Urquiola, Miguel and Chang-Tai Hsieh The effects of generalized school choice on achievement
and stratification: Evidence from Chile's school voucher program Journal of Public Economics,
90, 1477-1503, 2006.
http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V76-4J2KT82-1-
C&_cdi=5834&_user=209690&_pii=S0047272705001672&_origin=browse&_coverDate=09%
2F30%2F2006&_sk=999099991&view=c&wchp=dGLbVlW-
zSkWA&md5=e8f1187818b9e8276ea1e0d2c82f3dfe&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
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*** NO CLASS MARCH 7 ***
*** SPRING BREAK MARCH 10-18 ***
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F. Financial Capital (RP, March 19, 21)
Returns to Capital
*De Mel, Suresh, David McKenzie, and Christopher Woodruff (2008). “Returns to Capital in
Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment”. Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol.
123, Issue 4, pp. 1329-1372.
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=4&hid=7&sid=e9da28ce-ec63-4221-
8127-5ae270891302%40sessionmgr11
Udry, Christopher and Santosh Anagol (2006). “The Return to Capital in Ghana”. American
Economic Review, vol.96 Issue 2, pp.388-393.
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=4&hid=11&sid=f92ff736-f151-46a1-
9cd4-26e15e3b37c4%40sessionmgr12
What Constrains Credit?
*Banerjee, Abhijit, (2004) "Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets, and Economic
Development," in M. Dewatripoint, L. Hansen and S. Turnovsky, eds. Advances in Economics
and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Eight World Congress of the Econometric Society,
Volume III. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-46. (Posted on course page)
* Karlan, Dean and Jonathan Zinman (2009), “Observing Unobservables: Identifying
Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment,” Econometrica, Vol. 77,
No. 6, pp.1993-2008. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/10.3982/ECTA5781/pdf
Aleem, Irfan (1990). “Imperfect Information, Screening and the Costs of Informal lending: A
Study of a Rural Credit Market in Pakistan,” World Bank Economic Review, Volume 4(3), 329-
349. http://wber.oxfordjournals.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/4/3/329.full.pdf+html
Debraj Ray. (1998) “Development Economics" by Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
chapter 14. (On Reserve)
Improving Financial Access for the Poor
*Burgess, Robin and Rohini Pande, “Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social
Banking Experiment,” American Economic Review, 95(3), 2005.
http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/0002828054201242
Morduch, Jonathan (1999), "The Microfinance Promise," Journal of Economic Literature, Vol.
37 (4), pp. 1569-1614. http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/detail?hid=105&sid=4010f7b9-62a6-4a0e-ba99-
81688423b28c%40sessionmgr115&vid=1&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1za
XRl#db=bth&AN=2730332
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Field, Erica, Rohini Pande, John Papp and Natalia Rigol. “Debt Structure, Entrepreneurship, and
Risk: Evidence from Microfinance.” Working Paper, updated September 2011.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/rpande/papers/Debt%20Structure,%20Entrepreneurship,%20and
%20Risk_Sep2011.pdf
Dupas, Pacaline and Jonathan Robinson. “Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from
Health Savings Experiments”. Working Paper, updated July 2011.
http://www.stanford.edu/~pdupas/DupasRobinson_HealthSavings.pdf
i. Policy Interlude I: history, designing development aid (RP/DR, March 23)
Besley, Tim and Robin Burgess, “Halving Global Poverty,” Journal of Economic Perspectives,
17(3), 2003. http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/089533003769204335
Hogan, Margaret C., et al. (2010). “Maternal Mortality for 181 Countries, 1980–2008: A
Systematic Analysis of Progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5”. The Lancet, vol.
375, no. 9726, pp.8-14.
http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science?_ob=MiamiImageURL&_cid=271074&_user=209690&_pii=S01
40673610605181&_check=y&_origin=search&_zone=rslt_list_item&_coverDate=2010-05-
14&wchp=dGLbVlV-zSkzS&md5=dbcafe46c4efcf19b440bdfe4e4be72c/1-s2.0-
S0140673610605181-main.pdf
Attaran Amir (2005). “An immeasurable crisis? A criticism of the Millennium Development
Goals and why they cannot be measured”. PLoS Med 2: e318. doi:
10.1371/journal.pmed.0020318.
McArthur J, Sachs JD and Schmidt-Traub G (2005). “Response to Amir Attaran”. PLoS Med 2:
e379. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020379.
Attaran, A (2005). “Author‟s Reply.” PLoS Medicine, Correspondence, 2(11): e405.
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020405
Sachs, Jeffrey. Millenium Villages Work: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-
development/poverty-matters/2011/oct/13/millennium-villages-project-working-well
Clemens, Michael and Gabriel DeMombeynes (2010). “When Does Rigorous Evaluation make a
difference? The case of Millenium Villages”. Working Paper 225, Center for Global
Development.
http://www.cgdev.org/files/1424496_file_Clemens_Demombynes_Evaluation_FINAL.pdf
* Pande, Rohini, (2006), “Why Aren‟t We Achieving the Millenium Development Goals?” Book
Review for the Proceedings of Annual World Bank Conference in Development Economics,
Journal of Economic Literature.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/rpande/papers/ABCDE_review.pdf
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Temple, Jonathan, “Aid and Conditionality,” in D. Rodrik and M. Rosenzweig, eds., Handbook
of Development Economics, vol. 5, North-Holland, 2009. (On Reserve)
Alesina, Alberto and Beatrice Weder, “Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?”
American Economic Review, 2002, 92(4), 1126-37. http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/00028280260344669
Faye, Michael and Paul Niehaus. “Political Aid Cycles.” American Economic Review,
forthcoming. http://dss.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/papers/pac.pdf
G. The institutional context (RP, DR)
i. Families to institutions (RP, March 26)
Intra-household allocation
* Qian, Nancy (2008), “Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-
specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 123 (3), pp. 1251-
1285. http://www.mitpressjournals.org.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdf/10.1162/qjec.2008.123.3.1251
* Lundberg, Shelly J., Robert A. Pollak, and Terence J. Wales (1996). "Do Husbands and Wives
Pool their Resources? Evidence from the United Kingdom Child Benefit." Journal of Human
Resources, Vol. 32, No. 4: 463–480.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/146179.pdf
Jayachandran, Seema and Ilyana Kuziemko (2011). “Why do Mothers Breastfeed Girls less than
Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India”. The Quarterly Journal of
Economics 126, 1485-1538.
http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/126/3/1485.short?rss=1&ssource=mfr
Productivity Impacts
Agriculture
* Udry, Christopher (1996), "Gender, Agricultural Production, and the Theory of the
Household," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 104 (5), pp. 1010-1045.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/2138950.pdf
Industry
Bertrand, Marianne, Simon Johnson, Krislert Samphantharak and Antoinette Schoar (2008).
“Mixing Family with Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families behind
them”. Journal of Financial Economics, 88(3),466-498.
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/marianne.bertrand/research/thai_business_jfe.pdf
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Policy
Beaman, Lori, Esther Duflo, and Raghabendra Chattopadhyay (2008). “Powerful Women: Does
Exposure Reduce Bias?”
http://cpe.ucsd.edu/assets/002/6984.pdf
* Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra and Esther Duflo, (2004). “Women as Policy Makers: Evidence
from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India,” Econometrica, 72(5), pp. 1409-1443.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/3598894.pdf
ii. Governance and Development (RP, March 28 & April 2)
Politician Identity Matters
* Pande, Rohini, (2003). “Can Mandated Political Representation Increase Policy Influence for
Disadvantaged Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India,” American Economic Review,
93(4), 1132-1151
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?hid=104&sid=62df4712-6aa6-47cd-849b-
69b24908870f%40sessionmgr115&vid=4
Information Matters
* Finan, Frederico and Claudio Ferraz (2008). “Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effect of
Brazil‟s Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes,” Quarterly Journal of Economics,
123(2): 703-745.
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&hid=19&sid=8a64b301-3726-4cd7-
b35b-ba735f7d31a9%40sessionmgr14
Institutions Matter
Finan, Frederico and Claudio Ferraz (2011). “Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local
Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports”. American Economic Review, 101, 1274-1311.
http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~ffinan/Finan_Termlimits.pdf
McMillan, John and Pablo Zoido, (2004). “How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru,”
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18(4), 69-92.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/3216793.pdf?acceptTC=true
The costs of corruption and policy responses
Olken, Benjamin and Rohini Pande (2011). “Corruption in Developing Countries”. Working
paper prepared for the Annual Review of Economics, Volume 4, August 2011.
http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/6881
Olken, Benjamin A. (2007). "Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in
Indonesia." Journal of Political Economy 115(2): 200-249.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/10.1086/517935.pdf
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Banerjee, Abhijit V., Selvan Kumar, Rohini Pande and Felix Su (2011). “Do Informed Voters
Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India”. Working paper, updated
November 2011. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/rpande/papers/DoInformedVoters_Nov11.pdf
Bertrand, Marianne, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna and Sendhil Mullainathan. “Obtaining a
Driving License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption”, Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 122(4) 1639-1676, 2007.
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&hid=110&sid=475b4a39-2d35-4048-
9112-aff9bb575f14%40sessionmgr114
iii. Governance reform (DR, Apr. 4)
* Djankov, Simeon, Edward Glaeser, Rafael LaPorta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei
Shleifer, “The New Comparative Economics,” Harvard University, January 2003.
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/files/newcompecon_JCE.pdf
* McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher, “Private Order Under Dysfunctional Public Order.”
Michigan Law Review, August 2000, Vol. 98 Issue 8, p2421, 38p;
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/1290349.pdf
* Rodrik, Dani, “Second-best Institutions,” 2009. http://www.nber.org/papers/w14050.pdf
* Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson, “The Colonial Origins of
Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” American Economic Review, 91, 5,
December 2001, 1369- 1401.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/2677930.pdf
* Glaeser, E., R. La Porta, and F. Lopez-de-Silanes, and A. Shleifer, “Do Institutions Cause
Growth?” Journal of Economic Growth, September, 2004.
http://proquest.umi.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/pqdlink?index=1&did=707256381&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=6&VInst
=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1296153632&clientId=18857
* Pande, Rohini and Chris Udry, “Institutions and Development: A View from Below,”
forthcoming in the Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society, edited by
R. Blundell, W. Newey, and T. Persson, Cambridge University Press.
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~cru2/pdf/institutions_draft.pdf
Besley, Timothy and Maithreesh Ghatak, “Property Rights and Economic Development,” in D.
Rodrik and M. Rosenzweig, Handbook of Development Economics, vol. 5, North-Holland, 2009.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1546900##
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Rodrik, Dani, Arvind Subramanian, and Francesco Trebbi, “Institutions Rule: The Primacy of
Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development” Journal of Economic
Growth, vol. 9, no.2, June 2004.
http://proquest.umi.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/pqdlink?index=0&sid=3&srchmode=1&vinst=PROD&fmt=10&startpage
=-
1&clientid=18857&vname=PQD&RQT=309&did=679243591&scaling=FULL&ts=1296153759
&vtype=PQD&rqt=309&TS=1296153771&clientId=18857
Berkowitz, Daniel, Katharina Pistor, and Jean-Francois Richard, “Economic Development,
Legality, and the Transplant Effect,” European Economic Review, 47(1), February 2003, 165-
195.
http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V64-44GMFF6-1-
7S&_cdi=5804&_user=209690&_pii=S0014292101001969&_origin=search&_zone=rslt_list_it
em&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2003&_sk=999529998&wchp=dGLbVzz-
zSkWb&md5=dca031733d38f30f62c8a51ecd6af478&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
Kaufmann, Daniel, Aart Kraay, and Massimo Mastruzzi, “Governance Matters VI: Governance
Indicators for 1996-2006,” World Bank, July 2007.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=999979
iv. Policy interlude II: designing domestic institutions (RP/DR, April 9)
* World Bank, Economic Growth in the 1990s, Learning from a Decade of Reform, Washington
D.C. 2005.
http://www1.worldbank.org/prem/lessons1990s/chaps/frontmatter.pdf
* Easterly, William, “National Policies and Economic Growth,” in P. Aghion and S. Durlauf,
eds., Handbook of Economic Growth, vol. 1A, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2005.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MiamiImageURL&_cid=273488&_user=209690&_
pii=S1574068405010154&_check=y&_origin=&_coverDate=31-Dec-
2005&view=c&wchp=dGLbVlV-zSkWb&md5=8f8930ddeedb2f416205cb5477674ebf/1-s2.0-
S1574068405010154-main.pdf
* Sachs, Jeffrey D., John W. McArthur, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Margaret Kruk, Chandrika
Bahadur, Michael Faye and Gordon McCord “Ending Africa' s Poverty Trap,” Brookings Papers
on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 2004.
* Rodrik, Dani, “Growth Strategies,” in P. Aghion and S. Durlauf, eds., Handbook of Economic
Growth, vol. 1A, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2005.
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* Rodrik, Dani, “Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion?” Journal of
Economic Literature, December 2006.
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=5&hid=19&sid=d48f1f7d-4051-4e50-
b8d2-597895b10a15%40sessionmgr12
Williamson, John, ed., Latin American adjustment: how much has happened? Washington, DC:
Institute for International Economics, 1990.
Lora, Eduardo, “Structural Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Reformed and How to
Measure It,” Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., December 2001a.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=909562
Loayza, Norman, Pablo Fajnzylber, and Cesar Calderon, “Economic Growth in Latin America
and the Caribbean” Stylized Facts, Explanations, and Forecasts,” World Bank, Washington,
D.C., June 2002. http://www.bcentral.cl/eng/studies/working-papers/pdf/dtbc265.pdf
Nelson, Richard R., “A Theory of the Low-Level Equilibrium Trap in Underdeveloped
Economies,” The American Economic Review, 46(5), December 1956, 894-909.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/1811910.pdf?acceptTC=true
U.N. Millennium Project, Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium
Development Goals, New York, United Nations. 2005.
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/fullreport.htm
Hausmann, Ricardo, Dani Rodrik, and Andres Velasco, “Growth Diagnostics,” John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2005.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/rhausma/new/growthdiag.pdf
Collier, Paul, “Growth Strategies for Africa,” paper for the Commission on Growth and
Development, January 2007.
http://www.growthcommission.org/storage/cgdev/documents/ThemesPapers/Paper%20Collier.p
df
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Dani Rodrik. "Self-Discovery in a Development Strategy for El
Salvador." Economía - Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic
Association 6(1): 43-101, 2005.
H. Growth Strategies (DR, April 11)
* Qian, Yingyi, “How Reform Worked in China,” in D. Rodrik, ed., In Search of Prosperity:
Analytic Narratives of Economic Growth, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2003.
(On Reserve)
* Easterly, William, “National Policies and Economic Growth,” in P. Aghion and S. Durlauf,
eds., Handbook of Economic Growth, vol. 1A, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2005. (On Reserve)
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* Sachs, Jeffrey D., John W. McArthur, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Margaret Kruk, Chandrika
Bahadur, Michael Faye, and Gordon McCord “Ending Africa' s Poverty Trap,” Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 1, 2004. http://www.jstor.org.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/3217964.pdf?acceptTC=true
* Rodrik, Dani, “Growth Strategies,” in P. Aghion and S. Durlauf, eds., Handbook of Economic
Growth, vol. 1A, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2005. (On Reserve)
* Rodrik, Dani, “Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion?” Journal of
Economic Literature, December 2006. http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jel.44.4.973
Lau, Lawrence J., Yingyi Qian, and Gerard Roland, “Reform Without Losers: An Interpretation
of China's Dual-Track Approach to Transition,” The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 109, No.
1, Feb. 2000, pp. 120-143.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/10.1086/262113.pdf?acceptTC=true
Williamson, John, ed., Latin American adjustment: how much has happened? Washington, DC:
Institute for International Economics, 1990. (On Reserve)
Lora, Eduardo, “Structural Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Reformed and How to
Measure It,” Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., December 2001.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=909562#PaperDownload
Loayza, Norman, Pablo Fajnzylber, and Cesar Calderon, “Economic Growth in Latin America
and the Caribbean: Stylized Facts, Explanations, and Forecasts,” World Bank, Washington, D.C.,
June 2002.
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DEC/Resources/25405_economic_growth_in_latin_america.p
df
Nelson, Richard R., “A Theory of the Low-Level Equilibrium Trap in Underdeveloped
Economies,” The American Economic Review, 46(5), December 1956, 894-909.
http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/pdfplus/1811910.pdf
U.N. Millennium Project, Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium
Development Goals, New York, United Nations, 2005.
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/fullreport.htm
Hausmann, Ricardo, Dani Rodrik, and Andres Velasco, “Growth Diagnostics,” John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2005.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/drodrik/Research%20papers/barcelonafinalmarch2005.pdf
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Collier, Paul, “Growth Strategies for Africa,” paper for the Commission on Growth and
Development, January 2007.
http://www.growthcommission.org/storage/cgdev/documents/ThemesPapers/Paper%20Collier.p
df
Hausmann, Ricardo and Dani Rodrik, “Discovering El Salvador‟s Production Potential,”
Economia, 2003. http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/node/722
I. The global context: financial globalization and crises (DR, April 16)
* Obstfeld, Maurice, “International Finance and Growth in Developing Countries: What Have
We Learned?” Commission on Growth and Development, Washington, DC, 2008.
http://www.growthcommission.org/storage/cgdev/documents/gcwp034web.pdf
* Kose, M. Ayhan, Eswar Prasad, Kenneth Rogoff, and Shang-Jin Wei, “Financial Globalization
and Economic Policies,” in D. Rodrik and M. Rosenzweig, eds., Handbook of Development
Economics, vol. 5, North-Holland, 2009.
http://ftp.iza.org/dp4037.pdf
* Rodrik, Dani and Arvind Subramanian, “Why Did Financial Globalization Disappoint?” March
2008.
http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/subramanian0308.pdf
Dani Rodrik, “The Future of Economic Convergence,” NBER Working Paper No. 17400,
September 2011 (http://www.nber.org/papers/w17400.pdf).
J. The global context: Sustainable Development (RP, Apr. 18)
The Problem
Duflo, Esther and Rohini Pande (2007). “Dams”. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(2),
pp. 601-646. http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp-
prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&hid=19&sid=7090a6f0-be04-44c0-
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Almond, Douglas, Yuyu Chen, Michael Greenstone and Hongbin Li (2009). “Winter Heating or Clean Air?
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i. Policy Interlude III: designing regulatory institutions (RP/DR, April 23)
K. Wrap-up (RP/DR, April 25)
To be confirmed