Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Volume 60, issue 4, 2012

Political Connections and Social Networks in Targeted Transfer Programs: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia pp. 639 - 675

Bet Caeyers and Stefan Dercon

Who Shares Risk with Whom under Different Enforcement Mechanisms? pp. 677 - 706

Abigail Barr, Marleen Dekker and Marcel Fafchamps

Self-Help Groups and Mutual Assistance: Evidence from Urban Kenya pp. 707 - 733

Marcel Fafchamps and Eliana La Ferrara

Nutrition and Educational Performance in Rural China's Elementary Schools: Results of a Randomized Control Trial in Shaanxi Province pp. 735 - 772

Renfu Luo, Yaojiang Shi, Linxiu Zhang, Chengfang Liu, Scott Rozelle, Brian Sharbono, Ai Yue, Qiran Zhao and Reynaldo Martorell

Does Work Impede Child Learning? The Case of Senegal pp. 773 - 793

Christelle Dumas

Formal Law as a Magnet to Reform Custom pp. 795 - 828

Gani Aldashev, Imane Chaara, Jean-Philippe Platteau and Zaki Wahhaj

Financial Dependence and Aid Allocation by Swiss NGOs: A Panel Tobit Analysis pp. 829 - 867

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler and Johannes Weisser

Book Review: Carol Graham and Eduardo Lora, eds. Paradox and Perception: Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+258. $27.95 (paper) pp. 869 - 871

Mariano Rojas

Book Review: Christopher Adam, Paul Collier, and Njuguna Ndung'u, eds. Kenya: Policies for Prosperity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii+428. $99.00 (cloth) pp. 872 - 874

Shantayanan Devarajan

Volume 60, issue 3, 2012

Local Politics, Political Institutions, and Public Resource Allocation pp. 449 - 473

Nethra Palaniswamy and Nandini Krishnan

Health Shocks and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 475 - 506

Maria Eugenia Genoni

Commodity Price Shocks and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Crisis in Côte d'Ivoire pp. 507 - 534

Denis Cogneau and Remi Jedwab

Informational Barriers to Credit for Migrants: Evidence from Guatemala pp. 535 - 570

Ariel BenYishay

Firm-Level Corruption in Vietnam pp. 571 - 595

John Rand and Finn Tarp

Protection, Openness, and Factor Adjustment: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Uruguay pp. 597 - 629

Carlos Casacuberta and Nestor Gandelman

Book Review: Lauren M. MacLean. Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi+292. $90.00 (cloth) pp. 631 - 634

Nicolas van de Walle

Book Review: Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka. Cluster-Based Industrial Development: A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xvi+261. $100.00 (cloth) pp. 634 - 637

Howard Pack

Volume 60, issue 2, 2012

The Long-Run Impacts of Adult Deaths on Older Household Members in Tanzania pp. 245 - 277

Achyuta Adhvaryu and Kathleen Beegle

Sharing the Burden of Parental Death: Intrafamily Effects of HIV/AIDS Orphans on Fertility and Child Quality pp. 279 - 309

Olumide Taiwo

US Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration pp. 311 - 357

Manuela Angelucci

Can Eliminating School Fees in Poor Districts Boost Enrollment? Evidence from South Africa pp. 359 - 398

Evan Borkum

Household Income as a Determinant of Child Labor and School Enrollment in Brazil: Evidence from a Social Security Reform pp. 399 - 435

Irineu de Carvalho Filho

Book Review: Timothy Besley and Rajshri Jayaraman, eds. Institutional Microeconomics of Development. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. x+250. $35.00 (paper) pp. 437 - 440

Jeffrey Nugent

Book Review: Sudhir Anand, Paul Segal, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds. Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii+446. $99.00 (paper) pp. 440 - 443

Gary Fields

Book Review: T. N. Srinivasan. Trade, Growth and Poverty Reduction: Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small States in the Global Economic System. London: Commonwealth Secretariat; New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2009. Pp. 152. $38.95 (paper) pp. 443 - 446

Howard Pack

Book Review: Pranab Bardhan. Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. vii+172. $24.95 (cloth) pp. 446 - 448

Thomas Rawski

Volume 60, issue 1, 2011

Pretending to Be Poor: Borrowing to Escape Forced Solidarity in Cameroon pp. 1 - 16

Jean-Marie Baland, Catherine Guirkinger and Charlotte Mali

Literacy, Skills, and Welfare: Effects of Participation in Adult Literacy Programs pp. 17 - 66

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Claus Pörtner

An Inquiry into the Rapid Growth of the Garment Industry in Bangladesh pp. 67 - 89

Khondoker Mottaleb and Tetsushi Sonobe

Shocks and Asset Dynamics in Ethiopia pp. 91 - 120

Tewodaj Mogues

On the Timing of Marriage, Cattle, and Shocks pp. 121 - 154

Johannes Hoogeveen, Bas van der Klaauw and Gijsbert van Lomwel

Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-Off a Trade-Off for All, None, or Some? pp. 155 - 195

Daniel Millimet and Le Wang

Labor-Market Consequences of Internal Migration in Turkey pp. 197 - 239

Ali Berker

Book Review: Steven Haggblade and Peter B. R. Hazell, eds. Successes in African Agriculture: Lessons for the Future. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. xxiv+436. $45.00 (paper) pp. 241 - 243

Keijiro Otsuka

Volume 59, issue 4, 2011

Trustworthiness and Social Capital in South Africa: Analysis of Actual Living Standards Data and Artifactual Field Experiments pp. 695 - 722

Michael Carter and Marco Castillo

The Political Economy of Health Services Provision in Brazil pp. 723 - 751

Ahmed Mobarak, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Maureen Cropper

Industrial Structure and Child Labor Evidence from the Brazilian Population Census pp. 753 - 776

Marco Manacorda and Furio Rosati

Civil War, Crop Failure, and Child Stunting in Rwanda pp. 777 - 810

Richard Akresh, Philip Verwimp and Tom Bundervoet

Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina pp. 811 - 837

Ana Iturriza, Arjun Bedi and Robert Sparrow

Economic Reforms and Gender Inequality in Urban China pp. 839 - 876

Haoming Liu

Reversal of Fortunes: The Rise and Fall of Lifetime Earnings of Iranian Men pp. 877 - 906

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Marenglen Marku

Book Review: Janine Aron, Brian Kahn, and Geeta Kingdon. South African Economic Policy under Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. x+366. $99.00 (cloth) pp. 907 - 909

Nicoli Nattrass

Volume 59, issue 3, 2011

Efficiency of Land Allocation through Tenancy Markets: Evidence from China pp. 485 - 510

Shingo Kimura, Keijiro Otsuka, Tetsushi Sonobe and Scott Rozelle

Widows' Land Security in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia pp. 511 - 547

Antony Chapoto, Thomas Jayne and Nicole Mason

The Effect of Early Interventions in Health and Nutrition on On-Time School Enrollment: Evidence from the Oportunidades Program in Rural Mexico pp. 549 - 581

Jessica Todd and Paul Winters

Was Vietnam's Economic Growth in the 1990s Pro-Poor? An Analysis of Panel Data from Vietnam pp. 583 - 608

Paul Glewwe and Hai-Anh Dang

Big Constraints to Small Firms' Growth? Business Environment and Employment Growth across Firms pp. 609 - 647

Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Carmen Pages

Multinational Corporations and Knowledge Flows: Evidence from Patent Citations pp. 649 - 680

Shireen AlAzzawi

Book Review: Nick Barr and Peter Diamond. Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii+352. $49.95 (cloth) pp. 681 - 683

Axel Börsch-Supan

Book Review: Annette Miae Kim. Learning to Be Capitalists: Entrepreneurs in Vietnam's Transition Economy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. x+212. $35.00 (cloth) pp. 684 - 686

John Rand

Book Review: Stein T. Holden, Keijiro Otsuka, and Frank M. Place, eds. The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa: Impacts on Poverty, Equity and Efficiency. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2009. Pp. xiv+320. $90.00 (cloth) pp. 686 - 689

Michael Kevane

Book Review: Paul Rivlin. Arab Economies in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. viii+317. $24.99 (paper) pp. 689 - 694

Mona Said

Volume 59, issue 2, 2011

The Distributive Consequences of Social Banking: A Microempirical Analysis of the Indian Experience pp. 251 - 280

Anjini Kochar

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Marriage and Divorce pp. 281 - 312

Gustavo Bobonis

Preschool and Maternal Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design pp. 313 - 344

Samuel Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani and Patrick McEwan

Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Working Earlier in Life on Adult Earnings pp. 345 - 385

Patrick Emerson and André Souza

Targeting Cyclone Relief within the Village: Kinship, Sharing, and Capture pp. 387 - 416

Yoshito Takasaki

Executive Pay at Publicly Listed Firms in China pp. 417 - 436

Chen Lin, Wei Shen and Dongwei Su

Segmentation in the Brazilian Labor Market pp. 437 - 463

Fernando Botelho and Vladimir Ponczek

Book Review: Shenggen Fan, ed. Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty: Lessons from Developing Countries. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. xv+249. $65.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper) pp. 465 - 468

Emmanuel Jimenez

Book Review: Keijiro Otsuka, Jonna P. Estudillo, and Yasuyuki Sawada, eds. Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Asia and Africa. Routledge Studies in Development Economics. London: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xxiii+232. $160.00 (cloth) pp. 469 - 471

Erik Thorbecke

Book Review: Alok Bhargava. Food, Economics, and Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xi+221. $90.00 (cloth) pp. 472 - 473

Lawrence Haddad

Book Review: Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven. Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. ix+283. $29.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper) pp. 473 - 481

Shahidur Khandker

Book Review: Peter F. Orazem, Guilherme Sedlacek, and Zafiris Tzannatos. Child Labor and Education in Latin America: An Economic Perspective. New York: Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xx+229. $90.00 (cloth) pp. 481 - 483

Julie Anderson Schaffner

Volume 59, issue 1, 2010

Exploring the Causal Machinery behind Sex Ratios at Birth: Does Hepatitis B Play a Role? pp. 1-21

Amar Hamoudi

The Environmental Impact of Poverty: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Rural Nepal pp. 23-61

Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee and Rinki Sarkar

Social Capital and Basic Goods: The Cautionary Tale of Drinking Water in India pp. 63-94

Sripad Motiram and Lars Osberg

Community-Based Targeting and Initial Local Conditions: Evidence from Indonesia's IDT Program pp. 95-147

Chikako Yamauchi

Strategic Behavior and Marriage Payments: Theory and Evidence from Senegal pp. 149-185

Frédéric Gaspart and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Does Money Matter? The Effects of Cash Transfers on Child Development in Rural Ecuador pp. 187-229

Christina Paxson and Norbert Schady