Economic Development and Cultural Change

1969 - 2009

Edited by John Strauss

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2009, volume 58, issue 1

Up in Smoke: Tobacco Use, Expenditure on Food, and Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries pp. 1-23

Steven A. Block and Patrick Webb

Does Local School Control Raise Student Outcomes? Evidence on the Roles of School Autonomy and Parental Participation pp. 25-52

Victoria Gunnarsson, Peter Orazem, Mario A. Sánchez and Aimee Verdisco

Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicaragua pp. 53-83

Ana C. Dammert

Can Microfinance Reduce Portfolio Volatility? pp. 85-110

Nicolas Krauss and Ingo Walter

Human Capital, Exports, and Earnings pp. 111-141

Marcel Fafchamps

Finance and Cluster-Based Industrial Development in China pp. 143-164

Jianqing Ruan and Xiaobo Zhang

2009, volume 57, issue 4

Direct Elicitation of Credit Constraints: Conceptual and Practical Issues with an Application to Peruvian Agriculture pp. 609-640

Stephen R. Boucher, Catherine Guirkinger and Carolina Trivelli

Isolation and Subjective Welfare: Evidence from South Asia pp. 641-683

Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi

The Poverty Impact of Rural Roads: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 685-722

Shahidur R. Khandker, Zaid Bakht and Gayatri B. Koolwal

Parental Education and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from Recomposed Families in Rwanda pp. 723-746

Damien de Walque

Education Gender Gaps in Pakistan: Is the Labor Market to Blame? pp. 747-784

Monazza Aslam

Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap in Madagascar: Does Labor Force Attachment Really Matter? pp. 785-808

Christophe J. Nordman and François Roubaud

Risk Pooling through Transfers in Rural Ethiopia pp. 809-835

Lei Pan

2009, volume 57, issue 3

Schooling Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers on Young Children: Evidence from Mexico pp. 439-477

Jere Richard Behrman, Susan W. Parker and Petra E. Todd

Oportunidades: Program Effect on Consumption, Low Participation, and Methodological Issues pp. 479-506

Manuela Angelucci and Orazio Attanasio

Investments, Time Preferences, and Public Transfers Paid to Women pp. 507-538

Luis Rubalcava, Graciela Teruel and Duncan Thomas

Impact of Oportunidades on Skilled Attendance at Delivery in Rural Areas pp. 539-558

Jose Urquieta, Gustavo Angeles, Thomas A. Mroz, Hector Lamadrid-Figueroa and Bernardo Hernández

Targeting Performance under Self-selection and Administrative Targeting Methods pp. 559-587

David P. Coady and Susan W. Parker

2009, volume 57, issue 2

Evidence of Intrahousehold Flypaper Effects from a Nutrition Intervention in Rural Guatemala pp. 215-238

Mahnaz Islam and John Hoddinott

Preschool Nutrition and Subsequent Schooling Attainment: Longitudinal Evidence from Tanzania pp. 239-260

Harold Alderman, Hans Hoogeveen and Mariacristina Rossi

Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Availability in Urban China: 1986-2000 pp. 261-295

Xin Meng, Xiaodong Gong and Youjuan Wang

Explaining Ethnic Disparities in School Enrollment in Turkey pp. 297-333

Murat G. Kırdar

Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombia pp. 335-358

Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler

Changing Performance of Business Groups over Two Decades: Technological Capabilities and Investment Inefficiency in Korean Chaebols pp. 359-386

Kineung Choo, Keun Lee, Keunkwan Ryu and Jungmo Yoon

Identifying Reticent Respondents: Assessing the Quality of Survey Data on Corruption and Values pp. 387-411

Omar Azfar and Peter Murrell

2008, volume 57, issue 1

Freed from Illiteracy? A Closer Look at Venezuela's Misión Robinson Literacy Campaign pp. 1-30

Daniel Ortega and Francisco Rodríguez

Agricultural Outputs and Conflict Displacement: Evidence from a Policy Intervention in Rwanda pp. 31-66

Florence Kondylis

Assessing the Functioning of Land Rental Markets in Ethiopia pp. 67-100

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali and Tekie Alemu

Ownership and Control in Mexico's Community Forestry Sector pp. 101-136

Camille Antinori and Gordon C. Rausser

Poverty Reduction, Patronage, or Vote Buying? The Allocation of Public Goods and the 2001 Election in Madagascar pp. 137-162

Christine Moser

Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in the Himalayas pp. 163-193

Maja Micevska and Dil Bahadur Rahut

2008, volume 56

Genetically Modified Rice, Yields, and Pesticides: Assessing Farm-Level Productivity Effects in China pp. 241-263

Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu, Scott Rozelle and Carl Pray

Recent and Prospective Adoption of Genetically Modified Cotton: A Global Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Economic Impacts pp. 265-296

Kym Anderson, Ernesto Valenzuela and Lee Ann Jackson

Editor's Note pp. 297-298

John Strauss

Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS pp. 299-326

Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Stefan Dercon

Impact of AIDS-Related Mortality on Farm Household Welfare in Zambia pp. 327-374

Antony Chapoto and Thomas S. Jayne

Economic Status, Informal Exchange, and Sexual Risk in Kisumu, Kenya pp. 375-396

Nancy Luke

Are Africans Practicing Safer Sex? Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys for Eight Countries pp. 397-439

Peter J. Glick and David E. Sahn

Poverty and the Impact of AIDS on Older Persons: Evidence from Cambodia and Thailand pp. 441-475

John Knodel

Book Review pp. 477-480

Jeffrey B. Nugent

Book Reviews pp. 481-484

Erik Thorbecke

Book Reviews pp. 484-490

Shahidur R. Khandker

Book Reviews pp. 490-492

Bruce Gardner

Book Review pp. 493-497

Robert W. Herdt

Book Review pp. 497-500

Joerg Baten

Tokenism or Agency? The Impact of Women’s Reservations on Village Democracies in South India pp. 501-530

Radu Ban and Vijayendra Rao

Land Titling and Rural Transition in Vietnam pp. 531-579

Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer

Getting Girls into School: Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia pp. 581-617

Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady

Revisiting the Impact of a Reproductive Health Intervention on Children’s Height-for-Age with Evidence from Rural Bangladesh pp. 619-656

Anoshua Chaudhuri

Early Childhood Nutrition, Schooling, and Sibling Inequality in a Dynamic Context: Evidence from South Africa pp. 657-682

Futoshi Yamauchi

Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty? Evidence from South Africa pp. 683-710

Eliane El Badaoui, Eric Albert Strobl and Frank Walsh

Book Review of "Understanding Poverty" pp. 711-713

Lyn Squire

Book Reviews pp. 714-717

Emmanuel Jimenez

Book Reviews pp. 717-719

Emily C. Hannum

Book Reviews pp. 720-721

Sidney Silliman

Book Reviews pp. 721-724

Ajit Karnik

Book Review of "Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction: The Potential of Telecommunications" pp. 724-727

Stephane Straub

Price Transmission and Trader Entry in Domestic Commodity Markets pp. 729-766

Marcel Fafchamps and Ruth Vargas Hill

The Food Retail Revolution in Poor Countries: Is It Coming or Is It Over? pp. 767-789

Bart Minten

Why Children Work, Attend School, or Stay Idle: The Roles of Ability and Household Wealth pp. 791-828

Marigee P. Bacolod and Priya Ranjan

The Impact of Short-Term Credit on Microenterprises: Evidence from the Fincomun-Bimbo Program in Mexico pp. 829-849

Pablo Cotler and Christopher Woodruff

Rural Organization and Land Reform in Brazil: The Role of Nonagricultural Benefits of Landholding pp. 851-870

Juliano Assuncao

Learning by Exporting: Does It Matter Where One Learns? Evidence from Colombian Manufacturing Firms pp. 871-894

Natalia Trofimenko

Foreign Ownership and Productivity of Joint Ventures pp. 895-920

Ying Ge and Yasheng Chen

Book Review of "Economic Liberalization and Integration in East Asia: A Post-Crisis Paradigm" pp. 921-923

Gustav Ranis

Book Reviews pp. 924-926

Barbara Boyle Torrey

Book Review of, "Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the nineteenth century to the Pacific War" pp. 926-930

Yoshihisa Godo

Book Reviews pp. 930-932

Hal Hill

Book Review of, "Poverty and Inequality Among Chinese Minorities" pp. 933-935

Bjorn Gustafsson

Book Review of, "Under New Ownership: Privatizing China's State-owned Enterprises" pp. 935-938

Yasheng Huang