Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Volume 46, issue 4, 1998

Democracy, Economic Freedom, Fiscal Policy, and Growth in LDCs: A Fresh Look pp. 677-96

Michael Nelson and Ram D Singh

Earnings, Education, and Economic Reforms in Urban China pp. 697-725

Zhiqiang Liu

A Reversal of Fortune for Korean Women: Explaining the 1983 Upward Turn in Relative Earnings pp. 727-48

Yana Rodgers

A Comparison of Occupational Values between Capitalist Hong Kong and Socialist Guangzhou pp. 749-70

Catherine C H Chiu, Kwok-fai Ting, Geoffrey K F Tso and He Cai

The Savings Behavior of Small Investors: A Case Study of Taiwan pp. 771-88

Jar-Der Luo

Nonfarm Activity and Rural Household Income: Evidence from Philippine Microdata pp. 789-806

J P Leones and S Feldman

Intrahousehold Labor Allocation Responses to Environmental Good Scarcity: A Case Study from the Hills of Nepal pp. 807-30

Priscilla A Cooke

Land Tenure, Farm Size, and Rural Market Participation in Developing Countries: The Case of the Tunisian Olive Sector pp. 831-48

Lokman T Zaibet and Elizabeth G Dunn

Forty Years of the Life Span Revolution: An Exploration of the Roles of "Convergence," Income, and Policy pp. 849-57

Rati Ram

Volume 46, issue 3, 1998

Economic Growth and Social Indicators: An Exploratory Analysis pp. 455-89

Johannes Fedderke and Robert Klitgaard

The Extra Burden of Moslem Wives: Clues from Israeli Women's Labor Supply pp. 491-517

Shoshana Grossbard and Shoshana Neuman

Assessing the Food Situation in North Korea pp. 519-35

Woon Keun Kim, Hyunok Lee and Daniel Sumner

Determinants of the Repartitioning of Property Rights between the Government and State Enterprises pp. 537-60

Lixin Xu

State as Investor and State as Owner: Consequences for Firm Performance in India pp. 561-80

Pradeep Chhibber and Sumit K Majumdar

Financial Liberalization, Savings, and Economic Development in Pakistan pp. 581-97

Ashfaque H Khan and Lubna Hasan

Determinants of Repayment Performance in Credit Groups: The Role of Program Design, Intragroup Risk Pooling, and Social Cohesion pp. 599-620

Manfred Zeller

Risk Sharing and Private Transfers: What about Urban Households? pp. 621-37

Donald Cox and Emmanuel Jimenez

Volume 46, issue 2, 1998

Innovation in Russian Industry: A Case Study of R&D in Transition pp. 233-62

Susan Linz and Jeff Biddle

Endogenous Ideology Formation and Economic Policy in Former Colonies pp. 263-90

Sun-Ki Chai

Productivity of Public Spending, Sectoral Allocation Choices, and Economic Growth pp. 291-303

John Baffes and Anwar Shah

Labor Disputes and Direct Foreign Investment: The Experience of Korea in Transition pp. 305-27

MoonJoong Tcha

International Migration and Income Distribution in the Philippines pp. 329-50

Edgard Rodriguez

Sustainable Intensification in the Highland Tropics: Rwandan Farmers' Investments in Land Conservation and Soil Fertility pp. 351-77

Daniel Clay, Thomas Reardon and Jaakko Kangasniemi

Distributional and Nutritional Impact of Devaluation in Rwanda pp. 379-402

Nicholas Minot

Review Article: Structural Adjustment, Safety Nets, and Destitution pp. 403-20

John Adams

Volume 46, issue 1, 1997

Communal Dining and the Chinese Famine of 1958-1961 pp. 1-34

Gene Hsin Chang and Guanzhong James Wen

Public-Sector Price Reforms in Transition Economies: Who Gains? Who Loses? The Case of Household Energy Prices in Poland pp. 35-59

Caroline Freund and Christine Wallich

Cultural Diversity and Economic Development: A Cross-National Study of 98 Countries, 1960-1985 pp. 61-77

Brad Lian and John R Oneal

Economists and Food Price Policy Distortions: The Case of India pp. 79-96

Vasant A Sukhatme and David Abler

The Income Gap in Cognitive Skills in Rural Pakistan pp. 97-122

Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman, Shahrukh Khan, David R Ross and Richard Sabot

Mobility and Labor Market Segmentation: The Urban Labor Market in El Salvador pp. 123-53

Edward Funkhouser

Complementarities between Exports and Human Capital in Economic Growth: Evidence from the Semi-industrialized Countries pp. 155-74

Andrew Levin and Lakshmi Raut

Factors Affecting Employment Choice in a Labor-Intensive Public Works Scheme in Rural Botswana pp. 175-86

Tesfaye Teklu and Sisay Asefa

A Comment on Rati Ram's Test of the Kuznets Hypothesis pp. 187-90

Martin Ravallion

Reply to the Comment on Rati Ram's Test of the Kuznets Hypothesis pp. 191-95

Rati Ram

Volume 45, issue 4, 1997

Colonist Land-Allocation Decisions, Land Use, and Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon Frontier pp. 707-44

Francisco J Pichon

The Microeconomics of an Indigenous African Institution: The Rotating Savings and Credit Association pp. 745-72

Rogier van den Brink and Jean-Paul Chavas

"Traditional Modernity" and the Economics of Handwoven Cloth Production in Southwestern Nigeria pp. 773-92

Elisha P Renne

Gender and Education Impacts on Employment and Earnings in West Africa: Evidence from Guinea pp. 793-823

Peter Glick and David Sahn

Schooling Attainment, Parental Education, and Gender in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana pp. 825-56

Aysıt Tansel

Putting Inputs to Work in Elementary Schools: What Can Be Done in the Philippines? pp. 857-79

Jee-Peng Tan, Julia Lane and Paul Coustere

Review Article: Post-1982 Effects of Neoliberalism on Latin American Development and Poverty: Two Conflicting Views pp. 881-97

Donald L Huddle

Volume 45, issue 3, 1997

Genetic Resources, International Organizations, and Improvement in Rice Varieties pp. 471-500

Robert E Evenson and Douglas Gollin

Export Performance and Enterprise Reform in China's Coastal Provinces pp. 501-39

F C Perkins

Explaining Child Nutrition in Vietnam pp. 541-56

Dominique Haughton and Jonathan Haughton

Environment, Technology, and the Social Articulation of Risk in West African Agriculture pp. 557-90

Michael Carter

The Limits to Land Reform: The Land Acts in Ireland, 1870-1909 pp. 591-612

Timothy Guinnane and Ronald I Miller

Education and Off-Farm Work pp. 613-32

Dennis Yang

The Productivity Gains of Marriage: Effects of Spousal Education on Own Productivity across Market Sectors in Brazil pp. 633-50

Jill Tiefenthaler

Whaling and Wages on Alaska's North Slope: A Time Allocation Approach to Natural Resource Use pp. 651-65

Joe Kerkvliet and William Nebesky

A Comment on "Industry's Response to Market Liberalization in China: Evidence from Jiangsu Province." pp. 667-70

MengHao Zhao and Paul M Sommers

Reply to "A Comment on 'Industry's Response to Market Liberalization in China: Evidence from Jiangsu Province.' " pp. 671-74

Penelope B Prime

Volume 45, issue 2, 1997

Female-Headed Households, Poverty, and the Welfare of Children in Urban Brazil pp. 231-57

Ricardo Barros, Louise Fox and Rosane Mendonca

Female-Headed Households and Female-Maintained Families: Are They Worth Targeting to Reduce Poverty in Developing Countries? pp. 259-80

Mayra Buvinic and Geeta Rao Gupta

An Economic Analysis of the Prenuptial Agreement (Mahrieh) in Contemporary Iran pp. 281-93

Nader Habibi

On the Intersectoral Migration of Agricultural Labor pp. 295-319

Donald Larson and Yair Mundlak

Market Transition, Government Policies, and Interprovincial Migration in China: 1983-1988 pp. 321-39

Zai Liang and Michael J White

Demand-Side and Supply-Side Explanations for Barriers to Labor Market Mobility in Developing Countries: The Case of Guatemala pp. 341-66

Edward Funkhouser

Formal Measures of the Informal-Sector Wage Gap in Mexico, El Salvador, and Peru pp. 367-92

Douglas Marcouiller, Veronica Ruiz de Castilla and Christopher Woodruff

Aggregate Agricultural Supply Response in Developing Countries: A Survey of Selected Issues pp. 393-410

Maurice Schiff and Claudio Montenegro

External Economies and Trade: An Empirical Analysis pp. 411-34

Pamela E Lowry

Review Article: Big and Free Is Beautiful: China and India, the Past 40 Years and the Next pp. 435-42

Thomas Timberg

Volume 45, issue 1, 1996

The Chinese Family and Economic Development: Obstacle or Engine? pp. 1-30

Martin King Whyte

Migration and Remigration of Male Household Heads in Turkey, 1963-1973 pp. 31-67

Insan Tunali

Human Capital in the Hot Sun pp. 69-87

Monica Neitzert

Female Agricultural Workers' Wages, Male-Female Wage Differentials, and Agricultural Growth in a Developing Country, India pp. 89-123

Ram D Singh

The Effect of Food Subsidies on Labor Supply in Sri Lanka pp. 125-45

David Sahn and Harold Alderman

Indonesia's Industrial Policy and Performance: "Orthodoxy" Vindicated pp. 147-74

Hal Hill

The Culture of Policy-Making in the Transition from Socialism: Price Policy in Mongolia pp. 175-94

Peter Murrell, Karen Turner Dunn and Georges Korsun

A Reexamination of Balassa's Productivity Bias Hypothesis pp. 195-204

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Farhang Niroomand