Topics
1. Rural Institutions
· Land
· Credit
· Insurance
2. Population issues
· Migration
· Health and labour
3. Inequalities
· Inequality
· Gender and Development
4. Climate change
5. Institutions
· Institutions and long run growth
· Corruption
· The Resource Curse
(See reading plan for updates and details on reading materials)
Reading list
Main Book:
Ray, D., 1998, Development Economics, Princeton University Press. Chapters 7, 10.3, 11, 12, 13.1-13.4, 14 and 15.
Articles:
Andvig, J. and K. Moene (1990) How corruption may corrupt, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 13 (1): 63–76.
Banarjee A. and Duflo, E. (2010). Giving credit where it is due, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24 (3): 61-80.
Cole, S., X. Gine, J. Tobacman, P. Topalova, R. Townsend, and J. Vickery (2013). Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5 (1): 104–135.
Dell, M., B. Jones and B. Olken (2012), Temperature shocks and economic growth: Evidence from the last half century, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 4 (3): 66-95.
Easterly, W. (2007), Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument, Journal of Development Economics, 84 (2), 755–776.
Fortson, J. (2010), Mortality Risk and Human Capital Investment: The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, Review of Economics and Statistics, 93 (1): 1-15.
Harttgen, K., S. Klasen, and S. Vollmer (2013), Economic Growth and Child Undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, Population and Development Review, 39 (3): 397–412.
Jensen, R. and Oster, E. (2009). The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124 (3): 1057-1094.
Mehlum, H., K. Moene, and R. Torvik (2006a). Institutions and the Resource Curse, The Economic Journal, 116 (508): 1–20.
Mehlum, H., K. Moene, and R. Torvik (2006b). Parasites, in S. Bowles, S. Durlauf, and K. Hoff (eds.), Poverty traps, Princeton University Press.
Michalopoulos S. and E. Papaioannou (2011). Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa, NBER Working Paper 17184.
Moene, K. and M. Wallerstein (2003), Social Democracy as a Development Strategy, Memorandum 35, University of Oslo.
Qian, N. (2008), Missing women and the price of tea in China: The effect of sex-specific earnings on sex imbalance, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(3): 1251-1285.
Ravallion, M., S. Chen, and P. Sangraula (2007). New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty, Population and Development Review, 33 (4): 667–701.
Rodrik, D. (2000), Institutions for high-quality growth: What they are and how to acquire them, Studies in Comparative International Development, 35 (3): 3-31.
Shaban, R. (1987), Testing between competing models of sharecropping, The Journal of Political Economy, 95 (5): 893-920.
Lecture notes:
Finseraas, H. and A. Kotsadam (2013). Hvordan identifisere årsakssammenhenger i ikke-eksperimentelle data? En ikke-teknisk introduksjon or Kotsadam, A (2013). Lecture Notes on Empirical Methods in Development Economics
Optional:
Dercon, S. and L. Christiaensen (2011). Consumption risk, technology adoption and poverty traps: Evidence from Ethiopia, Journal of Development Economics 96 (2): 159-173.
Duflo et al. (2006), Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit., J-PAL Working paper.