Center for Development Economics

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2011-10: Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

2011-09: Is Sex Like Driving? Risk Compensation Associated with Randomized Male Circumcision in Kisumu, Kenya

Nicholas Wilson, Wentao Xiong and Christine Mattson

2011-08: Fertility Responses to Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

Nicholas Wilson

2011-07: The Effect of Fertility Reduction on Economic Growth

Quamrul Ashraf, David Weil and Joshua Wilde

2011-06: Banks, Market Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Analysis

Quamrul Ashraf, Boris Gershman and Peter Howitt

2011-05: A Race to the Bottom? Employment Protection and Foreign Direct Investment

William Olney

2011-04: Economic Growth and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Evidence from the Early 21st Century Copper Boom

Nicholas Wilson

2011-03: Land and Law in Colonial India

Anand Swamy

2011-02: Identity and Mobility: Historical Fractionalization, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice in the American Midwest

Nicholas Wilson and Kaivan Munshi

2011-01: Antiretroviral Therapy and Demand for HIV Testing: Evidence from Zambia

Nicholas Wilson

2010-10: The Climatic Origins of the Neolithic Revolution: Theory and Evidence

Quamrul Ashraf and Stelios Michalopoulos

2010-09: Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease: An Economic Approach

Douglas Gollin and Christian Zimmermann

2010-08: Remittances and Institutions: Are Remittances a Curse?

Yasser Abdih, Jihad Dagher and Peter Montiel

2010-07: Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

2010-06: Monetary transmission in low income countries

Prachi Mishra, Antonio Spilimbergo and Peter Montiel

2010-05: Commitment and Conquest: The Case of British Rule in India

Mandar Oak and Anand Swamy

2010-04: The Great Recession, 'Rainy Day' Funds, and Countercyclical Fiscal Policy in Latin America

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Peter Montiel

2010-03: The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

2010-02: Workers' Remittances and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate: Theory and Evidence

Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Dalia Hakura and Peter Montiel

2010-01: Do Worker Remittances Reduce Output Volatility in Developing Countries?

Ralph Chami, Dalia Hakura and Peter Montiel

2009-02: Isolation and Development

Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor and Ömer Özak

2009-01: Financial Regulation in a Changing World: Lessons from the Recent Crisis

Gerard Caprio

2008-09: Banking Crises

Gerard Caprio and Patrick Honohan

2008-08: Cosigners as Collateral

Stefan Klonner and Ashok Rai

2008-07: Borrower Runs

Philip Bond and Ashok Rai

2008-06: Real Exchange Rates, Saving and Growth: Is there a Link?

Peter Montiel and Luis Servén

2008-05: Equipping Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements

Douglas Gollin and Fabian Lange

2008-04: Bank Regulations Are Changing: But For Better or Worse?

Gerard Caprio, James Barth and Ross Levine

2008-03: The 2007 Meltdown in Structured Securitization: Searching for Lessons not Scapegoats

Gerard Caprio, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Edward Kane

2008-02: Animal genetic resource trade flows: Economic assessment

Douglas Gollin, Eric Van Dusen and Harvey Blackburn

2008-01: Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences

Douglas Gollin and Christian Zimmermann

2007-03: Only Twice As Much: A Rule for Regulating Lenders

Mandar Oak and Anand Swamy

2007-02: Labour's Share of Income

Douglas Gollin

2007-01: Adverse Selection in Credit Markets: Evidence from a Policy Experiment

Ashok Rai and Stefan Klonner

2006-01: Contracts, Hold-Up, and Exports: Textiles and Opium in Colonial India

Anand Swamy and Rachel Kranton

174: Mega-Sporting Events in Developing Nations: Playing the way to Prosperity?

Victor Matheson and Robert A. Baade

173: Sequencing and the Success of Gradualism: Empirical Evidence from China's Agricultural Reform

Alan de Brauw, Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle

172: Nobody's Business but My Own: Self Employment and Small Enterprise in Economic Development

Douglas Gollin

171: The Green Revolution: An End of Century Perspective

Douglas Gollin, Stephen Parente, Robert Evenson and Douglas Gollin

170: Farm Work, Home Work and International Productivity Differences

Richard Rogerson

169: The Role of Agriculture in Development

Douglas Gollin, Stephen Parente and Richard Rogerson

168: Do Domestic Investors Have an Information Advantage? Evidence from Indonesia

Tomas Dvorak

167: Post-Crisis Exchange Rate Policy in Five Asian Countries: Filling in the "Hollow Middle"?

Leonardo Hernández and Peter Montiel

166: Reform and Growth in Latin America: All Pain, No Gain?

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Peter Montiel

159: Taxation by Auction: Fund-Raising by 19th Century Indian Guilds

Arijit Sen and Anand Swamy

158: Gender and Corruption

Anand Swamy, Stephen Knack, Young Lee and Omar Azfar

157: Work and Development

H Bruton and David Fairris

156: A Reconsideration of Import Substitution

H.J. Bruton

155: Credit Subsidies, Financial Repression, and the High Inflation/Low Income Trap

M. Samson

153: Bargaining and fertility in Brazil: A Quantitative and Econometric Analysis

Vijayendra Rao and M.E. Green