[PDF] Top 20 Essays on development economics

... suyama (1992) formalizes these mechanisms in a model where both sectors compete for labour and where exogenous increases in agricultural productivity benefit the manufacturing sector. This mechanism works only in closed ... See full document

... ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS Erika Deserranno A thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy London, September 2015 0 1 D[.] ... See full document

... Furthermore, my paper features a sub-provincial centralization experiment to en- rich the existing literature. First, due to data availability, previous literature most- ly concentrated on “central - provincial” ... See full document

... the development of states rather than the emergence of states because, by 1615, local governments had already monopolized violence and taxation in their ... See full document

... The question of what keeps people mired in poverty is one of the oldest in economics. What we do know is that the world’s poor typically lack both capital and skills and different strands of the academic and ... See full document

... Lately, microfinance has often been in the news for the wrong reasons. The success of microfinance institutions (henceforth, MFIs) across the world has been tremendous over the last two decades, culminating in the Nobel ... See full document

... Why some countries are poorer than others is one of the most important questions in development economics. The current consensus seems to be that income differences cannot be explained purely by differences ... See full document

... The first chapter provides an overview of the literature on the link between risk, poverty, and agricultural technology adoption with an emphasis on empirical studies conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa. I start with an ... See full document

... the development of microenterprises, and find evidence of migra- tion networks playing a role in alleviating capital constraints in the most capital intensive ... See full document

... stress index, profits or sales for owner i in period t, CBT i is the treatment dummy, LowF emale1 takes value one if the owner operates in an industry with a low concentration of women, [r] ... See full document

... The model in this paper draws insights from three strands of models. The first strand is a long list of trade models with constant elasticity demand (Armington, 1969; Krugman, 1980; Eaton & Kortum, 2002; Helpman et ... See full document

... in development economics and public health studying policy interventions, mechanism of transmission and health outcomes in developing countries (Banerjee et ...urban economics studying the effects of ... See full document

... of development, agriculture represents a big share of both expenditure and value added production, there is an overall reduction of the price ...of development the share of the agri- cultural sector in the ... See full document

... The thesis contains three essays. The first investigates the experience of the organization of the Colombian National Peasant Movement -ANUC- within the con- text of the threat of a Communist revolution in Latin ... See full document

... Untitled The London School of Economics and Political Science Three Essays on Globalization and Economic Development March 2013 Benjamin Faber A thesis submitted to the London School of Economics for[.] ... See full document

... war, Mazumder notes that soldiers were given preference in the allocation of new tracts of land after WWI. This policy is unlikely to lead to an upward bias of our estimates, as ex-soldiers who moved to the colonies ... See full document

... Demand for places at popular schools exceeds supply, and not all families are able to at- tend their preferred school—yet attending a preferred school may have potentially impor- tant consequences for long term outcomes, ... See full document

... Essays in Macroeconomics Essays in Macroeconomics Christian Siegel A thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics and Political Science for the degree of Doctor of[.] ... See full document

... Essays in Labor and Public Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science Essays in Labor and Public Economics Giulia Giupponi A thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the[.] ... See full document

... behavioral economics literature building on it, points out that people might resort to simplified heuristics, or rules-of-thumb, instead of identifying optimal ... See full document