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929: The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana

Markus P. Goldstein and Christopher Udry

928: Institutions and Development:A View from Below

Rohini Pande and Christopher Udry

927: Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

Patrick Bayer, Stephen Ross and Giorgio Topa

926: Elasticities of Demand for Consumer Credit

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

925: Fertility and Income

T. Paul Schultz

924: Coordinating Development: Can Income-based Incentive Schemes Eliminate Pareto Inferior Equilibria?

Philip Bond and Rohini Pande

923: Dams

Esther Duflo and Rohini Pande

922: Profits and Politics: Coordinating Technology Adoption in Agriculture

Rohini Pande

921: Political Selection and the Qualilty of Government: Evidence from South India

Timothy Besley, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao

920: Chinese Manufacturing Performance in Comparative Perspective, 1980-2002

Adam Szirmai, Ruoen Ren and Manyin Bai

919: Farm Productivity and Market Structure. Evidence From Cotton Reforms in Zambia

Irene Brambilla and Guido Gustavo Porto

918: What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

Marianne Bertrand, Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir and Jonathan Zinman

917: Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin

916: Human Development: Beyond the HDI

Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart and Emma Samman

915: Cross-Border Political Donations and Pareto-Efficient Tariffs

Masahiro Endoh

914: Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries

Jonathan Conning and Christopher Udry

913: Social Connections and Group Banking

Dean Karlan

912: Inter-household Allocations within Extended Family: Evidence from the Indonesia Family Life Survey

Firman Witoelar

911: Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

910: Information Asymmetry and the Problem of Transfers in Trade Negotiations and International Agencies

Koichi Hamada and Shyam Sunder

909: Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital And Predict Financial Decisions

Dean Karlan

908: The Role of Preconceived Ideas in Macroeconomic Policy: Japan's Experiences in the Two Deflationary Periods

Koichi Hamada and Asahi Noguchi

907: Trust: A Concept Too Many

Timothy Guinnane

906: Are Household Production Decisions Cooperative? Evidence on Pastoral Migration and Milk Sales from Northern Kenya

Cheryl Doss and John McPeak

905: Demystifying the German "Armament Miracle" During World War II. New Insights from the Annual Audits of German Aircraft Producers

Lutz Budrab, Jonas Scherner and Jochen Streb

904: A Pro-Market Agenda for El Salvador

Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

903: Productive Benefits of Health: Evidence from Low-Income Countries

T. Paul Schultz

902: Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh

901: Demographic Determinants of Savings: Estimating and Interpreting the Aggregate Association in Asia

T. Paul Schultz

900: Labor Surplus Economies

Gustav Ranis

899: The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels

Douglas Gollin, Stephen Parente and Richard Rogerson

898: Consumption Smoothing? Livestock, Insurance and Drought in Rural Burkina Faso

Harounan Kazianga and Christopher Udry

897: Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh

896: Structural Change in Russian Transition

Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev

895: Motives for Household Private Transfers in Burkina Faso

Harounan Kaziango (Harounan Kazianga)

894: Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh: Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling Shareen Joshi

Shareen Joshi

893: Effective Labor Regulation and Microeconomic Flexibility

Ricardo J Caballero, Eduardo M.R.A. Engel and Alejandro Micco

892: Schooling Returns for Wage Earners in Burkina Faso: Evidence from the 1994 and 1998 National Surveys

Harounan Kazianga

891: Arthur Lewis' Contribution to Development Thinking and Policy

Gustav Ranis

890: Intra-Household Redistribution of Income and Calorie Consumption in South-Western Nigeria

Adebayo B. Aromolaran

889: Testing for a Supply Constraint to Fertility: Interpreting the Up to God Response to the Survey Question on Desired Family Size

Nistha Sinha

888: Social Networks in Ghana

Christopher Udry and Timothy G. Conley

887: Human Development and Economic Growth

Gustav Ranis

886: The Evolution of Development Thinking: Theory and Policy

Gustav Ranis

885: Residential Segregation in General Equilibrium

Patrick Bayer, Robert McMillan and Kim Rueben

884: Microeconomic Flexibility in Latin America

Ricardo J Caballero, Eduardo M.R.A. Engel and Alejandro Micco

883: Three Strikes and You.re Out: Reply to Cooper and Willis

Ricardo J Caballero and Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

882: Political Rents, Promotion Incentives, and Support for a Non-Democratic Regime

Valery Lazarev

881: The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Menzie Chinn and Robert W. Fairlie

880: Financial Vergangenheitsbewältigung: The 1953 London Debt Agreement

Timothy Guinnane