Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Volume 54, issue 4, 2006

Parental Education and Investment in Children's Human Capital in Rural China pp. 759-89

Phil Brown

Empowering Women with Micro Finance: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 791-831

Mark Pitt, Shahidur Khandker and Jennifer Cartwright

Living Arrangements and Schooling of Orphaned Children and Adolescents in Uganda pp. 833-56

Takashi Yamano, Yasuharu Shimamura and Dick Sserunkuuma

Income Shocks, Consumption, Wealth, and Human Capital: Evidence from Russia pp. 857-92

Ren Mu

Migration, Risk, and Liquidity Constraints in El Salvador pp. 893-925

Timothy Halliday

The Determinants of Credit Access and Its Impacts on Micro and Small Enterprises: The Case of Garment Producers in Kenya pp. 927-44

John E Akoten, Yasuyuki Sawada and Keijiro Otsuka

Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges pp. 945-83

Takao Kato and Cheryl Long

Volume 54, issue 3, 2006

The Determinants of Survival among African Manufacturing Firms pp. 533-55

Mans Soderbom, Francis Teal and Alan Harding

Firm Dynamics and Institutional Participation: A Case Study on Informality of Micro Enterprises in Peru pp. 557-78

Annette Jäckle and Carmen Li

Crime, Transitory Poverty, and Isolation: Evidence from Madagascar pp. 579-603

Marcel Fafchamps and Bart Minten

NAFTA and the Environment: What Can the Data Tell Us? pp. 605-33

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran

The Terms of Trade between the United Kingdom and British India, 1858-1947 pp. 635-54

Dennis R Appleyard

Symposium on Anthropologists' Views on Common Resources: Methodological Approaches to the Question of the Commons pp. 655-76

Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray

Outcomes and Processes in Economics and Anthropology pp. 677-94

Isha Ray

Collective Action, Common Property, and Social Capital in South India: An Anthropological Commentary pp. 695-724

David Mosse

A Simple Model of Collective Action pp. 725-47

Rajiv Sethi and E. Somanathan

Volume 54, issue 2, 2006

Does Industrialization Build or Destroy Social Networks? pp. 287-317

Edward Miguel, Paul Gertler and David Levine

Exchange and Condom Use in Informal Sexual Relationships in Urban Kenya pp. 319-48

Nancy Luke

The Impact of AIDS-Related News on Exchange Rates in South Africa pp. 349-68

Kyle Kauffman and Akila Weerapana

Caste and Tribe Inequality: Evidence from India, 1983-1999 pp. 369-404

Yoko Kijima

Determinants of School Enrollment in Indian Villages pp. 405-21

Benoit Dostie and Rajshri Jayaraman

Risk Pooling between Households and Risk-Coping Measures in Developing Countries: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh pp. 423-57

Cheolsung Park

How Corruption Influences Foreign Direct Investment: A Panel Data Study pp. 459-86

Peter Egger and Hannes Winner

Financial Liberalization in India and a New Test of the Complementarity Hypothesis pp. 487-502

Eric Pentecost and Tomoe Moore

The Growth of Agricultural Output and Food Supply in Meiji Japan: Economic Miracle or Statistical Artifact? pp. 503-20

Jean-Pascal Bassino

Volume 54, issue 1, 2005

Investment Climate and Firm Performance in Developing Economies pp. 1-31

David Dollar, Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Taye Mengistae

What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania pp. 33-70

J. David Brown, John Earle and Daniela Lup

Schooling Inequality and Language Barriers pp. 71-94

Susan Parker, Luis Rubalcava and Graciela Teruel

Symposium on Poverty, Programs, and Demographic Outcomes: Editor's Note pp. 95-96

John Strauss

Fertility, Child Work, and Schooling Consequences of Family Planning Programs: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Bangladesh pp. 97-128

Nistha Sinha

Family Background, Service Providers, and Early Childhood Development in the Philippines: Proxies and Interactions pp. 129-64

Sharon Ghuman, Jere Behrman, Judith B Borja, Socorro Gultiano and Elizabeth King

The Effects of Education and Family Planning Programs on Fertility in Indonesia pp. 165-201

Gustavo Angeles, David K Guilkey and Thomas Mroz

Can Targeted Food Programs Improve Nutrition? An Empirical Analysis of India's Public Distribution System pp. 203-35

Anjini Kochar

Progressing through PROGRESA: An Impact Assessment of a School Subsidy Experiment in Rural Mexico pp. 237-75

Jere Behrman, Piyali Sengupta and Petra Todd

Volume 53, issue 4, 2005

The Evolution of Income Inequality in Rural China pp. 769-824

Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt and John Giles

Labor Disputes and the Economics of Firm Geography: A Study of Domestic Investment in India pp. 825-54

Paroma Sanyal and Nidhiya Menon

Mothers' Work and Child Care: Findings from the Urban Slums of Guatemala City pp. 855-85

Kelly Hallman, Agnes Quisumbing, Marie Ruel and Benedicte de la Briere

The Entry of the Wife into the Labor Force in Response to the Husband's Unemployment: A Study of the Added Worker Effect in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas pp. 887-911

Reynaldo Fernandes and Fabiana de Felicio

Child Labor: The Role of Financial Development and Income Variability across Countries pp. 913-32

Rajeev Dehejia and Roberta Gatti

Earnings Differentials and Ownership Structure in Chinese Enterprises pp. 933-58

Yi Chen, Sylvie Démurger and Martin Fournier

Why Do Schooling Returns Differ? Screening, Private Schools, and Labor Markets in the Philippines and Thailand pp. 959-81

Futoshi Yamauchi

Comment on "Migration and Incomes in Source Communities: A New Economics of Migration Perspective from China." pp. 983-86

Oded Stark

Volume 53, issue 3, 2005

Firm Size Matters: Growth and Productivity Growth in African Manufacturing pp. 545-83

Johannes Van Biesebroeck

Which Firms Die? A Look at Manufacturing Firm Exit in Ghana pp. 585-617

Garth Frazer

Working-Age Adult Mortality and Primary School Attendance in Rural Kenya pp. 619-53

Takashi Yamano and Thomas Jayne

Labor Effects of Adult Mortality in Tanzanian Households pp. 655-83

Kathleen Beegle

The Effect of Gender Differences in Primary School Access, Type, and Quality on the Decision to Enroll in Rural Pakistan pp. 685-710

Cynthia B Lloyd, Cem Mete and Zeba A Sathar

Education, Development, and Wage Inequality: The Case of Taiwan pp. 711-35

James P Vere

Genuine Savings: Leading Indicator of Sustainable Development? pp. 737-54

Susana Ferreira and Jeffrey Vincent

Volume 53, issue 2, 2005

On Measuring Aggregate "Social Efficiency." pp. 273-92

Martin Ravallion

Reviving Growth in the Arab World pp. 293-326

Ibrahim A Elbadawi

Poverty in Egypt: Modeling and Policy Simulations pp. 327-46

Gaurav Datt and Dean Jolliffe

Marriage, Bequest, and Assortative Matching in Rural Ethiopia pp. 347-80

Marcel Fafchamps and Agnes Quisumbing

Parental Preference, Heterogeneity, and Human Capital Inequality pp. 381-407

Tekabe Ayalew

Where Has All the Bias Gone? Detecting Gender Bias in the Intrahousehold Allocation of Educational Expenditure pp. 409-51

Geeta Kingdon

Public-Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials, and Gender in Turkey pp. 453-77

Aysıt Tansel

Socioeconomic Determinants of Children's Health in Russia: A Longitudinal Study pp. 479-500

Leonid Fedorov and David Sahn

Regulation and Internet Use in Developing Countries pp. 501-23

Scott Wallsten

Volume 53, issue 1, 2004

Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico pp. 1-36

Xiaodong Gong, Arthur van Soest and Elizabeth Villagomez

The Impact of PROGRESA on Food Consumption pp. 37-61

John Hoddinott and Emmanuel Skoufias

The Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Knowledge and Productivity: A Study of Potato Farmers in the Peruvian Andes pp. 63-92

Erin M Godtland, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Alain de Janvry, Rinku Murgai and Oscar Ortiz

Externality Effects of Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural Ethiopia pp. 93-113

Sharada Weir and John Knight

Is Consumption Insured against Illness? Evidence on Vulnerability of Households to Health Shocks in Rural Ethiopia pp. 115-29

Abay Asfaw and Joachim von Braun

Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia pp. 131-56

Randall Kuhn and Steven Stillman

The Indigenous Test Score Gap in Bolivia and Chile pp. 157-90

Patrick McEwan

Institutional Assets for Negotiating the Terms of Development: Indigenous Collective Action and Oil in Ecuador and Alaska pp. 191-213

Sharman Haley

Government Concession Contracts in Chile: The Role of Competition in the Bidding Process pp. 215-34

Ricardo Paredes and José Sánchez

Consumers' Opinion of Inflation Bias Due to Quality Improvements pp. 235-54

Jan Hanousek and Randall Filer