Main Book:
- Ray, D., 1998, Development Economics, Princeton University Press. Chapters 7, 10.3, 11, 12, 13.1-13.4, 14 and 15.
Articles:
- Alesina, A., Michalopoulos, S., and Papaioannou, E: "Ethnic Inequality" forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy. Prepublished version can be accessed here.
- Almås, Ingvild. "International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food", American Economic Review, 102 (2) 2012, 1093-1117.
- Banerjee, A., Duflo, E. (2007). “The Economic Lives of the Poor.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(1), pp. 141-167.
- Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia Kinnan (2015) "The miracle of micro finance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(1): 22-53.
- Besley, T., Coate, S., Loury, G. (1993), “The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations,” American Economic Review , 83(4), pp. 792–810.
- 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.
- Dupas, Pascaline and Jonathan Robinson (2013), “Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments,” American Economic Review 103 (4): 1138-1171.
- Easterly, W. (2007), Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument, Journal of Development Economics, 84 (2), 755–776.
- Guidolin, M. and La Ferrara, E (2007): "Diamonds Are Forever, Wars Are Not: Is Conflict Bad for Private Firms?" American Economic Review 97 (5), pp. 1978-93.
- 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.
- Milanovic, B. (2002). "True World Income Distribution, 1988 and 1993: First Calculation Based on Household Surveys Alone". The Economic Journal 112 (476): 51. doi:10.1111/1468-0297.0j673
- Padró i Miquel, Gerard (2007) “The Control of Politicians in Divided Societies: The Politics of Fear”. The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 74, No. 4 (Oct., 2007), pp. 1259-1274 (alternative link)
- 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.
- Shaban, R. (1987), Testing between competing models of sharecropping, The Journal of Political Economy, 95 (5): 893-920.
Methodology background
- 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
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