Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Volume 56, issue 4, 2008

Price Transmission and Trader Entry in Domestic Commodity Markets pp. 729-766

Marcel Fafchamps and Ruth Hill

The Food Retail Revolution in Poor Countries: Is It Coming or Is It Over? pp. 767-789

Bart Minten

Why Children Work, Attend School, or Stay Idle: The Roles of Ability and Household Wealth pp. 791-828

Marigee P. Bacolod and Priya Ranjan

The Impact of Short-Term Credit on Microenterprises: Evidence from the Fincomun-Bimbo Program in Mexico pp. 829-849

Pablo Cotler and Christopher Woodruff

Rural Organization and Land Reform in Brazil: The Role of Nonagricultural Benefits of Landholding pp. 851-870

Juliano Assuncao

Learning by Exporting: Does It Matter Where One Learns? Evidence from Colombian Manufacturing Firms pp. 871-894

Natalia Trofimenko

Foreign Ownership and Productivity of Joint Ventures pp. 895-920

Ying Ge and Yasheng Chen

Book Review of "Economic Liberalization and Integration in East Asia: A Post-Crisis Paradigm" pp. 921-923

Gustav Ranis

Book Reviews pp. 924-926

Barbara Boyle Torrey

Book Review of, "Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the nineteenth century to the Pacific War" pp. 926-930

Yoshihisa Godo

Book Reviews pp. 930-932

Hal Hill

Book Review of, "Poverty and Inequality Among Chinese Minorities" pp. 933-935

Bjorn Gustafsson

Book Review of, "Under New Ownership: Privatizing China's State-owned Enterprises" pp. 935-938

Yasheng Huang

Volume 56, issue 3, 2008

Tokenism or Agency? The Impact of Women’s Reservations on Village Democracies in South India pp. 501-530

Radu Ban and Vijayendra Rao

Land Titling and Rural Transition in Vietnam pp. 531-579

Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer

Getting Girls into School: Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia pp. 581-617

Deon Filmer and Norbert Schady

Revisiting the Impact of a Reproductive Health Intervention on Children’s Height-for-Age with Evidence from Rural Bangladesh pp. 619-656

Anoshua Chaudhuri

Early Childhood Nutrition, Schooling, and Sibling Inequality in a Dynamic Context: Evidence from South Africa pp. 657-682

Futoshi Yamauchi

Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty? Evidence from South Africa pp. 683-710

Eliane El Badaoui, Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

Volume 56, issue 2, 2008

Genetically Modified Rice, Yields, and Pesticides: Assessing Farm-Level Productivity Effects in China pp. 241-263

Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu, Scott Rozelle and Carl Pray

Recent and Prospective Adoption of Genetically Modified Cotton: A Global Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Economic Impacts pp. 265-296

Kym Anderson, Ernesto Valenzuela and Lee Ann Jackson

Editor's Note pp. 297-298

John Strauss

Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS pp. 299-326

Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Stefan Dercon

Impact of AIDS-Related Mortality on Farm Household Welfare in Zambia pp. 327-374

Antony Chapoto and Thomas Jayne

Economic Status, Informal Exchange, and Sexual Risk in Kisumu, Kenya pp. 375-396

Nancy Luke

Are Africans Practicing Safer Sex? Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys for Eight Countries pp. 397-439

Peter J. Glick and David Sahn

Poverty and the Impact of AIDS on Older Persons: Evidence from Cambodia and Thailand pp. 441-475

John Knodel

Book Review pp. 477-480

Jeffrey Nugent

Book Reviews pp. 481-484

Erik Thorbecke

Book Reviews pp. 484-490

Shahidur Khandker

Book Reviews pp. 490-492

Bruce Gardner

Book Review pp. 493-497

Robert W. Herdt

Book Review pp. 497-500

Joerg Baten

Volume 56, issue 1, 2007

The Effects of Risk on Education in Indonesia pp. 1-25

Emla Fitzsimons

Lasting Impacts of Indonesia’s Financial Crisis pp. 27-56

Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin

Economic Policy Changes and Wage Differentials in Latin America pp. 57-97

Jere Behrman, Nancy Birdsall and Miguel Székely

Long-Term Changes in the Economic Activity of Older Males in Korea pp. 99-123

Chulhee Lee

Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error: A Pseudo-Panel Approach pp. 125-161

Francisca Antman and David McKenzie

Measurement Error Bias in Estimates of Income and Income Growth among the Poor: Analytical Results and a Correction Formula pp. 163-189

Paul Glewwe

Current Account Deficits in Africa: Stylized Facts and Basic Determinants pp. 191-221

Cesar Calderon, Alberto Chong and Luisa Zanforlin

Review of Gibson, et al pp. 223-225

Lyn Squire

Review of Lal pp. 226-228

Henry J. Bruton

Book Reviews pp. 228-231

Robert Dekle

Review of Yusef pp. 232-234

Shujiro Urata

Review of Palm, et al pp. 234-236

Scott Swinton

Review of Durand pp. 236-241

Peri L. Fletcher, Susan Richter and J. Edward Taylor

Volume 55, issue 4, 2007

Contingent Loan Repayment in the Philippines pp. 633-667

Marcel Fafchamps and Flore Gubert

Personal Networks and Nonagricultural Employment: The Case of a Farming Village in the Philippines pp. 669-707

Kei Kajisa

Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market pp. 709-734

Hugo Ñopo, Jaime Saavedra and Maximo Torero

Overlapping Identities under Liberalization: Gender and Caste in India pp. 735-760

Ashwini Deshpande

Wealth Accumulation and Distribution in Urban China pp. 761-791

Xin Meng

Capital Accumulation, Trade Liberalization, and Rising Wage Inequality: The Case of Argentina pp. 793-812

Pablo Acosta and Leonardo Gasparini

The Small, the Young, and the Productive: Determinants of Manufacturing Firm Growth in Ethiopia pp. 813-840

Arne Bigsten and Mulu Gebreeyesus

Book Review pp. 841-845

Michael Lipton

Book Review pp. 845-848

David McKenzie

Book Review pp. 848-852

Stephen Salant

Book Review pp. 852-856

David Bishai

Volume 55, issue 3, 2007

Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties pp. 441-486

Alessandro Tarozzi and Aprajit Mahajan

Not Separate, Not Equal: Poverty and Inequality in Post-apartheid South Africa pp. 487-529

Berk Özler

Learning in Health Care: Evidence of Learning about Clinician Quality in Tanzania pp. 531-555

Kenneth Leonard

Marriage, the Sharing Rule, and Pocket Money: The Case of South Korea pp. 557-581

Jungmin Lee

Women's Work and Breastfeeding Simultaneously Rise in Ghana pp. 583-612

Laurie F Derose

Book Review of Chong pp. 613-616

Ricardo Paredes

Book Review of Ruttan (2) pp. 616-619

John Antle

Book Review of Tignor pp. 619-622

Ravi Kanbur

Book Review of Kohli pp. 622-625

Priya Ranjan

Book Review of Dercon pp. 625-627

Anna Paulson

Book Review of Ruttan pp. 627-631

Jurgen Brauer

Volume 55, issue 2, 2007

You Can't Save Alone: Commitment in Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in Kenya pp. 251-282

Mary Kay Gugerty

The Distributive Impact of Land Markets in Uganda pp. 283-311

Jean-Marie Baland, Frédéric Gaspart, Jean-Philippe Platteau and Frank Place

Credit Information Systems in Less Developed Countries: A Test with Microfinance in Guatemala pp. 313-334

Jill Luoto, Craig McIntosh and Bruce Wydick

Displacement Due to Violence in Colombia: A Household-Level Analysis pp. 335-365

Stefanie Engel and Ana Ibáñez

Political Violence and Farm Household Efficiency in Colombia pp. 367-392

María A González and Rigoberto Lopez

Firm Heterogeneity and Market Selection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does It Spur Industrial Progress? pp. 393-423

Admasu Shiferaw

Book Review pp. 425-428

GianCarlo Moschini

Book Review pp. 428-430

Robert Evenson

Book Review pp. 430-433

Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Book Review pp. 433-436

Nicholas Barr

Book Reviews pp. 436-438

Dietmar Rothermund

Book Reviews pp. 438-440

David Feeny

Volume 55, issue 1, 2006

In Memoriam: Jean (Jenny) O. Lanjouw pp. 1

John Strauss

Do Entry Costs Provide an Empirical Basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises pp. 3-42

David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

Spatial Price Differences in China: Estimates and Implications pp. 43-86

Loren Brandt and Carsten Holz

Gender Gaps in Access to Health Care in Rural China pp. 87-107

Mengtao Gao and Yang Yao

Why Have Urban Poverty and Income Inequality Increased So Much? Argentina, 1991-2001 pp. 109-138

Martin Gonzalez-Rozada and Alicia Menendez

The Consumer Response to the Mexican Peso Crisis pp. 139-172

David McKenzie

Knowledge Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment and the Role of Local R&D Activities: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 173-200

Yasuyuki Todo and Koji Miyamoto

Foreign Firms and Indonesian Manufacturing Wages: An Analysis with Panel Data pp. 201-221

Fredrik Sjöholm and Robert Lipsey

Review Article: The Complementarities of Poverty Reduction, Equity, and Growth: A Perspective on the World Development Report 2006 pp. 223-236

Paul Collier and Stefan Dercon

Book Review pp. 237-240

Agnes Quisumbing

Book Review pp. 240-242

Harry Patrinos

Book Review pp. 242-245

Julie Anderson Schaffner

Book Review pp. 245-249

Oded Stark