Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Volume 52, issue 4, 2004

The Effect of Macroeconomic Turbulence on Real Wage Levels and the Wage Structure: Brazil, 1981-1999 pp. 681-717

Frank McIntyre and John Pencavel

Aggregate Shocks and Urban Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Argentina's Financial Crisis pp. 719-58

David McKenzie

A Comparison of Management Incentives, Abilities, and Efficiency between SOEs and TVEs: The Case of the Iron and Steel Industry in China pp. 759-80

Deqiang Liu and Keijiro Otsuka

Multinational Corporations, Patenting, and Knowledge Flow: The Case of Singapore pp. 781-800

Albert Guangzhou Hu

Nutrition Information and Formal Schooling as Inputs to Child Nutrition pp. 801-20

Patrick Webb and Steven Block

Migrants and Housing Investments: Theory and Evidence from Nigeria pp. 821-49

Una Osili

Crime Reporting as a Measure of Institutional Development pp. 851-71

Rodrigo Soares

Discount Rates in Vietnam pp. 873-87

C Leigh Anderson, Maya Dietz, Andrew Gordon and Marieka Klawitter

Volume 52, issue 3, 2004

D. Gale Johnson: An Appreciation: Introductory Remarks at a Conference in Memory of D. Gale Johnson, October 25, 2003, University of Chicago pp. 503-07

Arnold Harberger

Agricultural Productivity Growth, Rural Economic Diversity, and Economic Reforms: India, 1970-2000 pp. 509-42

Andrew Foster and Mark Rosenzweig

Food and Population: D. Gale Johnson and the Green Revolution pp. 543-69

Robert E Evenson

Russian Agriculture in the Transition to a Market Economy pp. 571-86

Karen Brooks and Bruce Gardner

Regional Inequality and Labor Transfers in China pp. 587-603

Justin Lin, Gewei Wang and Yaohui Zhao

A Model of Supply of Storage pp. 605-16

Eugenio Bobenrieth, Juan R A Bobenrieth H and Brian Wright

Implications of Agency Theory for Optimal Land Tenure Contracts pp. 617-42

Wallace Huffman and Richard Just

Health, Nutrition, and Economic Growth pp. 643-58

Robert Fogel

Contributions of D. Gale Johnson to the Economics of Agriculture pp. 659-79

Daniel Sumner, John Antle and Bruce Gardner

Volume 52, issue 2, 2004

Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 255-85

Deborah A Brautigam and Stephen Knack

Child Malnutrition in Ethiopia: Can Maternal Knowledge Augment the Role of Income? pp. 287-312

Luc Christiaensen and Harold Alderman

Measuring the Productivity from Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation Technologies with Household Fixed Effects: A Case Study of Hilly Mountainous Areas of Benin pp. 313-46

Anselme Adegbidi, Esaie Gandonou and Remco Oostendorp

Determinants and Poverty Implications of Informal Sector Work in Chile pp. 347-68

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

Why Japan, Not China, Was the First to Develop in East Asia: Lessons from Sericulture, 1850-1937 pp. 369-94

Debin Ma

Reforms, Investment, and Poverty in Rural China pp. 395-421

Shenggen Fan, Linxiu Zhang and Xiaobo Zhang

Migration and Gender in China: An Origin-Destination Linked Approach pp. 423-43

Zai Liang and Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

Reassessing China's Livestock Statistics: An Analysis of Discrepancies and the Creation of New Data Series pp. 445-73

Hengyun Ma, Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle

Review Article: A Powerful, But Limited, Theory of Development pp. 475-86

Pranab Bardhan

Volume 52, issue 1, 2003

Aggregate Private R&D Investments in Agriculture: The Role of Incentives, Public Policies, and Institutions pp. 1-21

Oscar Alfranca and Wallace Huffman

Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Rondonia, Brazil: Do Local Farmer Organizations Affect Adoption Rates? pp. 23-49

Jill L Caviglia-Harris

The Causes of China's Great Leap Famine, 1959-1961 pp. 51-73

James Kung and Justin Lin

Migration and Incomes in Source Communities: A New Economics of Migration Perspective from China pp. 75-101

J. Edward Taylor, Scott Rozelle and Alan de Brauw

Changing Roles of Innovation and Imitation in Industrial Development: The Case of the Machine Tool Industry in Taiwan pp. 103-28

Tetsushi Sonobe, Momoko Kawakami and Keijiro Otsuka

Recrafting Rights over Common Property Resources in Mexico pp. 129-58

Carlos Munoz-Pina, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Poverty and Access to Roads in Papua New Guinea pp. 159-85

John Gibson and Scott Rozelle

Changes in Consumption and Saving Behavior before and after Economic Shocks: Evidence from Zimbabwe pp. 187-215

Lire Ersado, Harold Alderman and Jeffrey Alwang

A Simple Theory of Economic Growth pp. 217-35

Daniel Landau

Volume 51, issue 4, 2003

China's Investment in Human Capital pp. 795-804

James Heckman

The Ethnic Minority-Majority Income Gap in Rural China during Transition pp. 805-22

Bjorn Gustafsson and Shi Li

The Economic Impact and Determinants of Investment in Human and Political Capital in China pp. 823-49

Zhiqiang Liu

The Impact of Property Rights on Households' Investment, Risk Coping, and Policy Preferences: Evidence from China pp. 851-82

Klaus Deininger and Songqing Jin

Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: The Importance of Institutions and Urbanization pp. 883-96

Cheng Hsiao and Yan Shen

Development Assistance and the Construction of Government-Initiated Community Institutions pp. 897-928

Eric Edmonds

Interhousehold Transfers between Relatives in Indonesia: Determinants and Motives pp. 929-44

Cheolsung Park

Girls' Education and Fertility Transitions: An Analysis of Recent Trends in Tanzania and Uganda pp. 945-75

Frances Vavrus and Ulla Larsen

The Economics of Ecotourism: A Galapagos Islands Economy-Wide Perspective pp. 977-97

J. Edward Taylor, George A Dyer, Micki Stewart, Antonio Yunez-Naude and Sergio Ardila

Agricultural Output and Productivity in the Former Soviet Republics pp. 999-1018

Zvi Lerman, Yoav Kislev, David Biton and Alon Kriss

Volume 51, issue 3, 2003

Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development pp. 547-71

Shantayanan Devarajan, William Easterly and Howard Pack

Trust, Membership in Groups, and Household Welfare: Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa pp. 573-601

Lawrence Haddad and John Maluccio

Human Capital Externalities in South Africa pp. 603-28

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Désiré Vencatachellum

Terms-of-Trade Shocks and Economic Performance, 1870-1940: Prebisch and Singer Revisited pp. 629-56

Yael Hadass and Jeffrey Williamson

The Impact of Israeli Border Policy on the Palestinian Labor Market pp. 657-76

Elizabeth Ruppert Blumer

Schooling Opportunities for Girls as a Stimulus for Fertility Change in Rural Pakistan pp. 677-98

Zeba A Sathar, Cynthia B Lloyd, Cem Mete and Minhaj ul Haque

Student Learning in Public and Private Primary Schools in Madagascar pp. 699-717

Gerard Lassibille and Jee-Peng Tan

"Entrepreneurial Fiends and Honest Farmers": Explaining Intravillage Inequality in a Rural Chinese Township pp. 719-51

Tamara Perkins

Economic Well-Being and Popular Support for Market Reform in Russia pp. 753-68

Terry D Clark, Ernest Goss and Larisa B Kosova

Productive Benefits after Investment in Health in Mali pp. 769-82

Martine Audibert and Jean-Francois Etard

Volume 51, issue 2, 2003

Development Strategy, Viability, and Economic Convergence pp. 276-308

Justin Lin

South-North Trade, Intellectual Property Jurisdictions, and Freedom to Operate in Agricultural Research on Staple Crops pp. 309-35

Eran Binenbaum, Carol Nottenburg, Philip Pardey, Brian D Wright and Patricia Zambrano

The Impact of Agricultural Extension on Farm Production in Resettlement Areas of Zimbabwe pp. 337-57

Trudy Owens, John Hoddinott and Bill Kinsey

The Economics of Water-Conserving Technology Adoption in Tunisia: An Empirical Estimation of Farmer Technology Choice pp. 359-73

Jeremy Foltz

Is There a Child Labor Trap? Intergenerational Persistence of Child Labor in Brazil pp. 375-98

Patrick Emerson and André Souza

Worker Flows in the Russian Economic Transition: Longitudinal Evidence from Four Cities pp. 399-425

Louise Grogan

Minimum Wages and Compliance: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago pp. 427-50

Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

Government Intervention and Economic Performance in East Asia pp. 451-77

Stephen Knowles and Arlene Garces-Ozanne

Development and Its Deadlock in Imperial China, 221 B.C.-1840 A.D pp. 479-522

Kent G Deng

Rulers of India: Review Article pp. 523-28

Paul R Brass

Volume 51, issue 1, 2002

Biotechnology Issues for Developing Economies: Comment from the Editor pp. 1-4

D. Johnson

Undernutrition Overestimated pp. 5-36

Peter Svedberg

The History of Food Fortification in the United States: Its Relevance for Current Fortification Efforts in Developing Countries pp. 37-53

David Bishai and Ritu Nalubola

How Potent Is Economic Growth in Reducing Undernutrition? What Are the Pathways of Impact? New Cross-Country Evidence pp. 55-76

Lisa C Smith and Lawrence Haddad

The Robustness of Poverty Profiles Reconsidered pp. 77-108

Finn Tarp, Kenneth Simler, Cristina Matusse, Rasmus Heltberg and Gabriel Dava

Gender, Social Change, and Educational Attainment pp. 109-34

Ann M Beutel and William G Axinn

Cyclical Patterns in School Attrition and Attendance: A Study in the Labor-Market Behavior of Children pp. 135-60

Esther Redmount

Production of Educational Output: Time-Series Evidence from Socioeconomically Heterogeneous Populations--The Case of South Africa, 1927-1993 pp. 161-87

Johannes Fedderke and John Luiz

Development and Efficiency of the Financial Sector and Links with Trust: Cross-Country Evidence pp. 189-204

Cesar Calderon, Alberto Chong and Arturo Galindo

Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Data for the 1990s pp. 205-15

Rati Ram and Kevin Honglin Zhang

Building Political Consensus and Distributing Resources: A Trade-Off or a Compatible Choice? pp. 217-36

Feng Yi and Theodora-Ismene Gizelis

Forecasting the Probability of Failure of Thailand's Financial Companies in the Asian Financial Crisis pp. 237-46

Stephen Reynolds, Richard Fowles, James Gander, Wannapat Kunaporntham and Somchai Ratanakomut

China's Economic Growth: 1952-2010 pp. 247-56

Gregory Chow and Kui-Wai Li