Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Volume 48, issue 4, 2000

Labor Productivity in Transition: A Regional Analysis of Russian Industry pp. 685-718

Susan Linz

The Effects of Breastfeeding on Health and the Demand for Medical Assistance among Children in Brazil pp. 719-36

Benjamin Senauer and Ana Lucia Kassouf

Structural Change in the Impact of Income on Food Consumption in China, 1989-1993 pp. 737-60

Xuguang Guo, Thomas Mroz, Barry M Popkin and Fengying Zhai

Institutional Quality and Income Distribution pp. 761-86

Alberto Chong and Cesar Calderon

Level of Development, Rate of Economic Growth, and Income Inequality pp. 787-99

Jih Y Chang and Rati Ram

Rates of Return on Physical and Human Capital in Africa's Manufacturing Sector pp. 801-27

Arne Bigsten, Anders Isaksson, Mans Soderbom, Paul Collier, Albert Zeufack, Stefan Dercon, Marcel Fafchamps, Jan Willem Gunning, Francis Teal, Simon Appleton, Bernard Gauthier, Abena Oduro, Remco Oostendorp and Cathy Pattillo

Citizen Activism, Environmental Regulation, and the Location of Industrial Plants: Evidence from India pp. 829-46

Sheoli Pargal and Muthukumara Mani

Irrigation and Cooperation: An Empirical Analysis of 48 Irrigation Communities in South India pp. 847-65

Pranab Bardhan

Iriaichi: Collective versus Individualized Management of Community Forests in Postwar Japan pp. 866-86

Yoko Kijima, Takeshi Sakurai and Keijiro Otsuka

Comment on "Nonfarm Activity and Rural Household Income: Evidence from Philippine Microdata." pp. 887-88

Oded Stark

Nonfarm Activity and Rural Household Income: Evidence from Philippine Microdata: Response pp. 889-91

Shelley Feldman

Volume 48, issue 3, 2000

Economic Development and Poverty Reduction in China over 20 Years of Reforms pp. 447-74

Shujie Yao

The Impact of Farmers' Health and Nutritional Status on Their Productivity and Efficiency: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 475-502

Andre Croppenstedt and Christophe Muller

Structural Adjustment and Economic Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana pp. 503-20

Awudu Abdulai and Wallace Huffman

Economic Lessons of the Kobe Earthquake pp. 521-42

George Horwich

Liberalization and Industrial Transformation: Lessons from the Sri Lankan Experience pp. 543-72

Prema-chandra Athukorala and Sarath Rajapatirana

Gender Inequalities and Economic Growth: A Longitudinal Evaluation pp. 573-617

Nancy Forsythe, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Valerie Durrant

Gender Differences in Labor Market Decisions: Evidence from Rural Mexico pp. 619-37

Jose A Pagan and Susana Sanchez

Modeling Group Loan Repayment Behavior: New Insights from Burkina Faso pp. 639-55

Julia Paxton, Douglas Graham and Cameron Thraen

Formal and Informal Credit Markets in Egypt pp. 657-70

Mahmoud Mohieldin and Peter Wright

Volume 48, issue 2, 2000

Bureaucrat to Entrepreneur: The Changing Role of the State in China's Grain Economy pp. 227-52

Scott Rozelle, Albert Park, Jikun Huang and Hehui Jin

Land Reform, Income Redistribution, and Agricultural Production in Korea pp. 253-68

Yoong-Deok Jeon and Young-Yong Kim

Agrarian Reform in Uzbekistan: Why Has the Chinese Model Failed to Deliver? pp. 269-84

Richard Pomfret

Comparing the Economic Performance of Dependent Territories and Sovereign Microstates pp. 285-306

H W Armstrong and Robert Read

Wage Premiums for Education and Location of South African Workers, by Gender and Race pp. 307-34

Germano Mwabu and T. Schultz

Linguistic Fragmentation and the Wealth of Nations: The Fishman-Pool Hypothesis Reexamined pp. 335-48

Daniel Nettle

Indigenous Language Skills and the Labor Market in a Developing Economy: Bolivia pp. 349-67

Barry Chiswick, Harry Patrinos and Michael E Hurst

English Fluency of Recent Hispanic Immigrants to the United States in 1980 and 1990 pp. 369-89

Alberto Davila and Marie T Mora

Public Capital and Economic Growth: Issues of Quantity, Finance, and Efficiency pp. 391-406

David Aschauer

Public Capital and Growth Revisited: A Panel Data Assessment pp. 407-18

Sebastien Dessus and Rémy Herrera

Volume 48, issue 1, 1999

The Motivation to Migrate: The Ethnic and Sociocultural Constitution of the Japanese-Brazilian Return-Migration System pp. 1-31

Takeyuki Tsuda

Does Cultural Origin Affect Saving Behavior? Evidence from Immigrants pp. 33-50

Christopher Carroll, Byung-Kun Rhee and Changyong Rhee

Labor Market Flexibility in East Asia: Lessons from Taiwan pp. 51-69

Yana Rodgers and Sita Nataraj

Labor Market Structure, New Export Crops, and Inequality: The Case of Mariculture in Honduras pp. 70-89

Denise Stanley

Rural Nonagricultural Employment and Poverty in Ecuador pp. 91-122

Peter Lanjouw

Labor Force Participation and Household Work of Urban Schoolchildren in Mexico: Characteristics and Consequences pp. 123-54

Melissa Binder and David Scrogin

More Evidence on the Role of Secondary Education in the Development of Lower-Income Countries: Wishful Thinking or Useful Knowledge? pp. 155-75

Lonnie E Brist and Arthur Caplan

A Cross-Country Study of Household Poverty and Inequality on Unit Record Household Budget Data pp. 177-208

Geoffrey Lancaster, Ranjan Ray and Maria Rebecca Valenzuela

Volume 47, issue 4, 1999

The Bad Earth? China's Soils and Agricultural Development since the 1930s pp. 701-36

Peter Lindert

China's Food Economy to the Twenty-first Century: Supply, Demand, and Trade pp. 737-66

Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle and Mark Rosegrant

Labor Migration and Earnings Differences: The Case of Rural China pp. 767-82

Yaohui Zhao

Economic Transformation in Korea: Rapid Growth without an Agricultural Revolution? pp. 783-801

Kenneth Kang and Vijaya Ramachandran

The Emerging Underclass in the Russian Federation: Income Dynamics, 1992-1996 pp. 803-29

Michael Lokshin and Barry M Popkin

A Theory of Aid as Trade with Special Reference to Small Islands pp. 831-52

Bernard Poirine

The Effect of Microenterprise Lending on Child Schooling in Guatemala pp. 853-69

Bruce Wydick

Cents and Sociability: Household Income and Social Capital in Rural Tanzania pp. 871-97

Deepa Narayan and Lant Pritchett

Volume 47, issue 3, 1999

Preindustrial and Postwar Economic Development: Is There a Link? pp. 471-95

John Burkett, Catherine Humblet and Louis Putterman

Green Revolution, Human Capital, and Off-Farm Employment: Changing pp. 497-523

Jonna Estudillo and Keijiro Otsuka

Environmental Behavior in Bangkok, Thailand: A Portrait of Attitudes, Values, and Behavior pp. 525-57

Amrita G Daniere and Lois M Takahashi

Productivity Growth in Indonesia: The Role of Regional Characteristics and Direct Foreign Investment pp. 559-84

Fredrik Sjöholm

Explaining Ethnic Differentials in Credit Market Outcomes in Zimbabwe pp. 585-604

Mayank Raturi and Anand Swamy

Albania's Radical Agrarian Reform pp. 605-19

Azeta Cungu and Johan Swinnen

Evaluating Familial Support for the Elderly: The Intrahousehold Allocation of Medical Expenditures in Rural Pakistan pp. 620-56

Anjini Kochar

School Attendance and Student Achievement: Evidence from Rural Honduras pp. 657-82

Arjun Bedi and Jeffrey H Marshall

Volume 47, issue 2, 1999

Income Transitions in Central European Households pp. 237-57

Barbara Boyle Torrey, Timothy M Smeeding and Debra Bailey

V-Goods and the Role of the Urban Informal Sector in Development pp. 259-88

Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart

The Gender Wage Gap in Three African Countries pp. 289-312

Simon Appleton, John Hoddinott and Pramila Krishnan

Poverty, Policies, and Deforestation: The Case of Mexico pp. 313-44

Klaus Deininger and Bart Minten

Sustainability in the Diffusion of Innovations: Smallholder Nontraditional Agro-Exports in Guatemala pp. 345-69

Calogero Carletto, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Technology, Market, and Community in Contract Choice: Rice Harvesting in the Philippines pp. 371-86

Masao Kikuchi and Yujiro Hayami

The Structure of Rice Production in Japan and Taiwan pp. 387-400

Hiroshi Fujiki

Democracy, Human Rights, and Development Assistance for Education: The USAID and World Bank in Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 401-19

Gilbert A Valverde

Maternal Education and Child Height pp. 421-39

Sudhanshu Handa

Volume 47, issue 1, 1998

The Economics of Agricultural Decollectivization in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union pp. 1-26

Erik Mathijs and Johan Swinnen

Institutional Environment, Ideological Commitment, and Farmers' Time Allocation: The Case of Israeli Moshavim pp. 27-44

Ayal Kimhi

The Contribution of Small Enterprises to Household and National Income in Kenya pp. 45-71

Lisa Daniels and Donald C Mead

"Participatory" Research for Development Projects: A Comparison of the Community Meeting and Household Survey Techniques pp. 73-94

Jennifer Davis and Dale Whittington

Milk Cows, Migrants, and Land Markets: Unraveling the Complexities of Forest-to-Pasture Conversion in Northern Honduras pp. 95-124

Sally Humphries

Commodity Production and Ethnic Culture: Otavalo, Northern Ecuador pp. 125-54

Tanya Korovkin

Remittances, Investment, and Rural Asset Accumulation in Pakistan pp. 155-73

Richard Adams

Disparities between Arabs and Jews in School Resources and Student Achievement in Israel pp. 174-92

Victor Lavy

Are Poorer Developing Countries the Targets of U.S. Protectionist Actions? pp. 193-207

Don Clark

In Memoriam: Theodore W. Schultz pp. 209-13

D. Johnson