EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Economic Development and Cultural Change

1969 - 2007

Edited by John Strauss

from University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press, Journals Division, P.O. Box 37005 Chicago, IL 60637.
Series data maintained by Christopher F. Baum ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.


Volume 33, issue 4, 1985

Indian Community Development, Local Government, Local Planning, and Rural Policy since 1950 pp. 677-98
Walter C Neale
Urban Employment and the Labor Market in Developing Nations pp. 699-730
Subbiah Kannappan
The Performance of the Food-producing Sector in Jamaica, 1962-1979: A Policy Analysis pp. 731-54
Stephen K Pollard and Douglas H Graham
An Evaluation of the Productive Performance of Agribusinesses: An Iranian Case Study pp. 755-76
Fatemeh E Moghadam
Cropping Pattern, Mechanization, Child Labor, and Fertility Behavior in a Farming Economy: Rural Egypt pp. 777-91
Victor Levy
An Old-Age Security Incentive for Children in the Philippines and Taiwan pp. 793-814
Susan De Vos
U.S. Farm Migration: An Application of the Harris-Todaro Model pp. 815-28
Daniel B Suits
The Natural Economy Revisited pp. 829-50
Charles Perrings
The Efficiency of Producing Alcohol for Energy in Brazil: Comment pp. 851-56
Jonathan Wight
The Efficiency of Producing Alcohol for Energy in Brazil: Reply pp. 857-63
Michael Barzelay and Scott R Pearson
Reflections on Need Achievement and International Differences in Income Growth: 1950-1960 pp. 865-77
Katherine B Freeman
Can Government Finance Play a Central Role in Economic Development? Review Article pp. 879-86
Joseph Froomkin

Volume 33, issue 3, 1985

Observations on the Chilean Economy, 1973-1983 pp. 451-62
Arnold C Harberger
Middle-Income Classes and Food Crises: The "New" Food-Feed Competition pp. 463-83
Pan A Yotopoulos
Economic Development, Income Distribution, and Real Income Levels: Puerto Rico, 1953-1977 pp. 485-502
Arthur J Mann
Modernization and Childlessness in the States of Mexico pp. 503-19
Poston, Dudley L, Jr, et al
Inflation in Barbados: An Econometric Investigation pp. 521-32
Andrew S Downes
Why Males Earn More: Location and Training of Brazilian Schoolteachers pp. 533-56
Nancy Birdsall and M Louise Fox
On the Relative Economic Progress of U.S.-born Filipino Men pp. 557-73
Edwin T Fujii and James Mak
A Portfolio Model of Korean Household Saving Behavior, 1962-1976 pp. 575-99
David L Ortmeyer
Toward Migration Management: A Field Experiment in Thailand pp. 601-21
Theodore D Fuller, Paul Lightfoot and Peerasit Kamnuansilpa
Foreign Demand for United States Higher Education: A Study of Developing Countries in the Eastern Hemisphere pp. 623-44
Vinod B Agarwal and Donald R Winkler

Volume 33, issue 2, 1985

Stabilization with Liberalization: An Evaluation of Ten Years of Chile's Experiment with Free-Market Policies, 1973-1983 pp. 223-54
Sebastian Edwards
Adoption of Agricultural Innovations in Developing Countries: A Survey pp. 255-98
Gershon Feder, Richard E. Just and David Zilberman
The Persistence of Women's Invisibility in Agriculture: Theoretical and Policy Lessons from Lesotho and Sierra Leone pp. 299-317
Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina
Socioeconomic and Demographic Aspects of School Enrollment and Attendance in Rural Botswana pp. 319-32
Dov Chernichovsky
Public Enterprise for Whom? Perverse Distributional Consequences of Public Operational Decisions pp. 333-47
Leroy P Jones
Financing Small-Scale Industry and Agriculture in Developing Countries: The Merits and Limitations of "Commercial" Policies pp. 349-71
Dennis Anderson and Farida Khambata
The Political Economy of Foreign Aid: A Model of the Market for a Public Good pp. 373-93
Paul Mosley
Employment in Construction: Multicountry Estimates of Costs and Substitution Elasticities for Small Dwellings pp. 395-414
W Paul Strassmann
Exports and Economic Growth: Some Additional Evidence pp. 415-25
Rati Ram

Volume 33, issue 1, 1984

Crisis Politics in Developing Countries pp. 1-22
Irma Adelman and Jairus M Hihn
Bugs, Bunds, Banks, and Bottlenecks: Organizational Contradictions in the New Rice Technology pp. 23-41
Grace E Goodell
Informal Credit Markets in India pp. 43-59
Thomas Timberg and C V Aiyar
Railroads and the Efficiency of Internal Markets: Some Conceptual and Practical Considerations pp. 61-70
Jacob Metzer
Statistical Determinants of the Population of a Nation's Largest City pp. 71-98
Lee De Cola
Unemployment and Economic Development pp. 99-116
Albert Berry and R H Sabot
Apartheid, the Job Ladder, and the Evolutionary Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence from South African Manufacturing, 1960-1977 pp. 117-41
Richard C Porter
CES Production Functions in Manufacturing and Problems of Industrialization in LDCs: Evidence from Korea pp. 143-65
Jae Won Kim
The Importance of Supply and Demand Variations in Earnings Instability: Comment pp. 167-70
Jere Richard Behrman
The Importance of Supply and Demand Variations in Earnings Instability: Reply pp. 171-72
David Murray
Disparities, Gaps, and Abysses: Review Article pp. 173-77
Joel Mokyr

Volume 32, issue 4, 1984

Microeconomics, Norms, and Rationality pp. 683-711
Alexander J. Field
On Japanese Macroeconomic Theories of Direct Foreign Investment pp. 713-23
Chung H Lee
The Significance of Motivational Variables in International Public Welfare Expenditures pp. 725-48
Katherine B Freeman
Economic Development and the Housing Sector: A Cross-National Model pp. 749-66
Philippe Annez and William C Wheaton
Rural-to-Urban Migration and Conjugal Separation: An Indian Case Study pp. 767-80
Biswajit Banerjee
Global Pattern of Energy Consumption before and after the 1974 Oil Crisis pp. 781-802
Lin, Ching-yuan
A Macro-Absorption Approach for Estimating the Foreign Debt Burden pp. 803-18
Oded Liviatan
Tourism and Food Imports: The Case of Jamaica pp. 819-42
Francois J Belisle
Poverty Analysis: The Case of Rural Somalia pp. 843-60
Gunnar Haaland and Willem Keddeman
Some Effects of Land Tenure Reforms on Russian Agricultural Productivity, 1901-1913 pp. 861-72
Peter Toumanoff
Subculture and Market: Review Article pp. 873-79
E L Jones

Volume 32, issue 3, 1984

Basic Needs versus Distributional Weights in Social Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 455-74
Arnold C Harberger
Rural-to-Urban Migration in LDCs: A Relative Deprivation Approach pp. 475-86
Oded Stark
Defense Spending, Economic Structure, and Growth: Evidence among Countries and Over Time pp. 487-98
Riccardo Faini, Patricia Annez and Lance Taylor
Politics and Female Status in North Africa: A Reconsideration of Development Theory pp. 499-524
Susan E Marshall
Coevolutionary Agricultural Development pp. 525-46
Richard B Norgaard
Irrigation Water Distribution along Branch Canals in Egypt: Economic Effects pp. 547-67
Melvin D Skold, Shinnawi Abdel Atty El Shinnawi and M Lofty Nasr
Landholding, Agricultural Modernization, and Local Institutions in India pp. 569-92
Norman K Nicholson
Import Demand for India: A Translog Cost Function Approach pp. 593-605
Khan A Mohabbat, Ardeshir Dalal and Martin Williams
Export Instability and Economic Growth: Some New Evidence pp. 607-14
Andreas Savvides
Export Instability and Economic Growth: Reply pp. 615-23
Constantine Glezakos
The Choice of Production Techniques by Foreign and Local Firms in Korea: Comment pp. 625-28
Howard Pack
The Choice of Production Techniques by Foreign and Local Firms in Korea: Reply pp. 629-31
Byung Soo Chung and Chung H Lee
The Land and People of Northeast Brazil: Is Geography a Useful Guide to Development Policy? Review Article pp. 633-38
Martin T Katzman

Volume 32, issue 2, 1984

New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of an Indian State, 1951-1975 pp. 227-53
Crimmins, Eileen M, et al
Externalities, Information Costs, and Social Benefit-Cost Analysis for Economic Development: An Example from Telecommunications pp. 255-76
Nathaniel H Leff
Nairobi's Informal Sector: Dynamic Entrepreneurs or Surplus Labor? pp. 277-302
William J House
Household Production in the Philippines: A Non-neoclassical Approach pp. 303-30
Nancy Folbre
Fertility and Pension Programs in LDCs: A Model of Mutual Reinforcement pp. 331-54
Barbara Entwisle and C R Winegarden
Agricultural Development and Demographic Change: A Generalization of the Boserup Model pp. 355-66
Warren Robinson and Wayne Schutjer
Hirschman's Taxonomy of Industries: Some Hypotheses and Evidence pp. 367-72
M. Shahid Alam
International Economic Relations and the Entrepreneurial State pp. 373-400
John R Freeman and Raymond D Duvall
Economies of Scale for Various Types of Manufacturing Production Technologies in an Underdeveloped Economy pp. 401-12
Martin Williams and Prem S Laumas
Share Tenancy and Fixed Rent in Taiwan pp. 413-22
Richard E Barrett
Review Article: The Macroeconomic versus the Microeconomic Approach to Development: The Futility of Development Efforts as a Function of Institutional Inertia pp. 423-30
Alvin Cohen

Volume 32, issue 1, 1983

The "Trickle-Down" Myth pp. 1-10
H W Arndt
State, Society, and Sin: The Political Beliefs of University Students in Pakistan pp. 11-44
Kiren Aziz Chaudhry and Peter McDonough
Yemenite Jewish Women in Israeli Rural Development: Female Power versus Male Authority pp. 45-61
Yael Katzir
The Limits of Industrialization in the Less Developed World: Bolivia pp. 63-95
Susan Eckstein and Frances Hagopian
Growth and Fluctuations of Fiji's Exports, 1875-1978 pp. 97-119
Bruce Knapman and Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore
Food Preference, Poverty, and the Nutrition Gap pp. 121-48
C H Shah
Landlessness in India and Bangladesh: A Critical Review of National Data pp. 149-67
Mead Cain
Farm Prices in India and Abroad: Implications for Production pp. 169-82
Vasant Sukhatme
Three Centuries of Population Change pp. 183-92
Joel Mokyr
Page updated 2008-07-06