EGC Discussion Papers 701-820

Economic Growth Center
Center Discussion Papers
Nos. 701 - 820
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701. Besley, Timothy, Stephen Coate & Timothy W. Guinnane. "Understanding the Workhouse Test: Information and Poor Relief in Nineteenth-Century
England," September 1993. (28 pp.)

702. Schultz, T. Paul. "Investments in the Schooling and Health of Women and Men: Quantities and Returns," August 1993. (70 pp.)

703. Schultz, T. Paul. "Marital Status and Fertility in the United States: Welfare and Labor Market Effects," September 1993. (39 pp.)

704. Chua, Hak B. & Alberto Ades. "Regional Instability and Economic Growth: Thy Neighbor's Curse," October 1993. (38 pp.)

705. Guinnane, Timothy, Abihijit Banerjee & Timothy Besley. "Thy Neighbor's Keeper: The Design of a Credit Cooperative with Theory and a Test,"
September 1993. (38 pp.)

706. Buiter, Willem H. & Urjit R. Patel. "Indian Public Finance in the 1990s: Challenges and Prospects," December 1993. (58 pp.)

707. Schultz, T. Paul. "Human Capital, Family Planning and Their Effects on Population Growth," January 1994. (58 pp.)

708. Evenson, Robert E., M. Carmen Fernandez & A. Casimiro Herruzo. "Measurement of the Total Factor Productivity of Spanish Agriculture: 1962-1989,"
December 1993. (15 pp.)

709. Evenson, Robert E. & Larry E. Westphal. "Technological Change and Technology Strategy," January 1994. (132 pp.)

710. Srinivasan, T.N. & Kenneth Kletzer. "Price Normalization and Equilibria in General Equilibrium Models of International Trade Under Imperfect
Competition," April 1994. (19 pp.)

711. Schultz, T. Paul. "Human Capital and Economic Development," May 1994. (31 pp.)

712. Ranis, Gustav. "The World Bank Near the Turn of the Century," October 1994. (30 pp.)

713. Evenson, Robert E. & Douglas Gollin. "Genetic Resources, International Organizations, and Rice Varietal Improvement," July 1994. (38 pp.)

714. Singh, Lakhwinder. "Productivity, Competitiveness, and Export Growth in a Less Developed Economy: A Study of Indian Punjab," August 1994. (27
pp.)

715. Sala-i-Martin, Xavier & Robert J. Barro. "Quality Improvements in Models of Growth," October 1994. (43 pp.)

716. Sala-i-Martin, Xavier. "Regional Cohesion: Evidence and Theories of Regional Growth and Convergence," October 1994. (46 pp.)

717. Levy, Philip I. "Lobbying and International Cooperation in Tariff Setting," June 1994. (28 pp.)

718. Levy, Philip I. "A Political-Economic Analysis of Free Trade Agreements," June 1994. (36 pp.)

719. Schultz, T. Paul. "Integrated Approaches to Human Resource Development," January 1995. (33 pp.)

720. Schultz, T. Paul. "Evaluation of Integrated Human Resource Programs," February 1995. (27 pp.) [In Journal of Econometrics, vol. 77, no. 1, 1997.]

721. Srinivasan, T.N. & Jagdish Bhagwati. "Trade and the Environment: Does Environmental Diversity Detract from the Case for Free Trade?" January 1995.
(100 pp.) [In Jagdish Bhagwati and Robert Hudec, eds., Harmonization and Fair Trade. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.]

722. Sala-i-Martin, Xavier & Casey B. Mulligan. "A Labor-Income-Based Measure of the Value of Human Capital: An Application to the States of the United States," December 1994. (61 pp.)

723. Sala-i-Martin, Xavier & Casey B. Mulligan. "Measuring Aggregate Human Capital," January 1995. (48 pp.)

724. Ranis, Gustav & Frances Stewart. "V-Goods and the Role of the Urban Informal Sector in Development," December 1994. (46 pp.)

725. Shiller, Robert J. & Stefano Athanasoulis. "World Income Components: Measuring and Exploiting International Risk Sharing Opportunities," March
1995. (69 pp.)

726. Guinnane, Timothy W. & Ronald I. Miller. "The Limits to Land Reform: The Land Acts in Ireland, 1870-1909," June 1995. (31 pp.) [In Economic
Development and Cultural Change, vol. 43, no. 3, April 1997.]

727. Lanjouw, Jean Olson. "Information and the Operation of Markets: Tests Based on a General Equilibrium Model of Land Leasing in India," June 1995. (37 pp.)

728. Boozer, Michael & Cecilia Rouse. "Intraschool Variation in Class Size: Patterns and Implications," May 1995. (43 pp.)

729. Schultz, T. Paul. "Immigrant Quality and Assimilation: A Review of the Literature," June 1995. (20 pp.) [In Journal of Human Development, vol. 1, no. 1, 2000.]

730. Shiller, Robert J. & Ryan Schneider. "Labor Income Indices Designed for Use in Contracts Promoting Income Risk Management," August 1995. (38
pp.)

731. Evenson, Robert E. & Germano Mwabu. "Household Composition and Expenditures on Human Capital Formation in Kenya," August 1995. (58 pp.) [In
T. Paul Schultz, ed., Research in Population Economics, Vol. 8. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc., 1996.]

732. Subramaniam, Ramesh. "Gender-Bias in India: The Importance of Household Fixed-Effects," September 1995. (31 pp.) [In Oxford Economic Papers,
vol. 48, no. 2, April 1996.]

733. Guinnane, Timothy W. "Diversification, Liquidity, and Supervision for Small Financial Institutions: Nineteenth-Century German Credit Cooperatives."
October 1995. (73 pp.)

734. Sala-i-Martin, Xavier. "The Classical Approach to Convergence Analysis," June 1995. (37 pp.) [In Economic Journal, vol. 106, no. 437, July 1996.]

735. Sala-i-Martin, Xavier & Robert J. Barro. "Technological Diffusion, Convergence, and Growth," June 1995. (43 pp.)

736. Sala-i-Martin, Xavier, William H. Dow, Jessica Holmes & Tomas Philipson. "Tetanus, Death and Aerobics: The Evaluation of Disease-Specific Public
Health Interventions," August 1995. (37 pp.)

737. Schultz, T. Paul. "Demand for Children in Low Income Countries," January 1994. (116 pp.) [In M. R. Rosenzweig and O. Stark, eds., Handbook of
Population and Family Economics. Amsterdam: American Elsevier, 1997.]

738. Schultz, T. Paul. & Kofi Benefo. "Fertility and Child Mortality in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana," August 1995. (50 pp.) [In World Bank Economic Review,
vol. 10, no. 1, January 1996.]

739. Dow, William H. "Discrete Choice Estimation of Price-Elasticities: The Benefits of a Flexible Behavioral Model of Health Care Demand," September
1995. (51 pp.)

740. Dow, William H. "Unconditional Demand for Curative Health Inputs: Does Selection on Health Status Matter in the Long Run?" September 1995 (49
pp.)

741. Dow, William H. "Welfare Impacts of Health Care User Fees: A Health-Valuation Approach to Analysis with Imperfect Markets," October 1995. (36
pp.)

742. Schultz, T. Paul. "Accounting for Public Expenditures on Education: An International Panel Study," July 1995. (61 pp.) [In T. Paul Schultz, ed., Research
in Population Economics, Vol. 8. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc., 1996.]

743. Schultz, T. Paul. "Aging, Immigration and Women in the Labor Force: Japan Compared to Other OECD Countries," November 1995. (76 pp.) [In
Gustav Ranis, ed., Japan and the United States in the Developing World. San Francisco: International Center for Economic Growth, 1997.]

744. Mwabu, Germano & T. Paul Schultz. "Education Returns Across Quantiles of the Wage Function: Alternative Explanations for Returns to Education by
Race in South Africa," January 1996. (24 pp.) [In American Economic Review, vol. 86, no. 2, May 1996.]

745. Ranis, Gustav. "Will Latin America Now Put a Stop to 'Stop-and-Go'?" January 1996. (22 pp.) [In Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs,
vol. 38, no. 2/3, Summer/Fall, 1996.]

746. Ranis, Gustav. "North-South Conflicts and Their Management," January 1996. (34 pp.) [In Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy,
vol. 3, no. 1, 1996.]

747. Lanzona, Leonardo A. "Migration Decisions, Self-Selection and Earnings in Low-Income Philippine Communities," November 1995. (37 pp.) [In Journal
of Development Economics, vol. 56, no. 1, 1998.]

748. Srinivasan, T.N. & James A. Robinson. "Long-Term Consequences of Population Growth: Technological Change, Natural Resources, and the
Environment," November 1995. (131 pp.) [In M. R. Rosenzweig and O. Stark, eds., Handbook of Population and Family Economics, Amsterdam: North
Holland, 1996.]

749. Goto, Junichi. "The Impact of Migrant Workers on the Japanese Economy: Trickle vs. Flood," January 1996. (43 pp.)

750. Boozer, Michael & Tomas Philipson. "The Private Demand for Information and the Effects of Public Testing Programs: The Case of HIV," February
1996. (55 pp.)

751. Fardmanesh, Mohsen & Li Tan. "Price and Trade Liberalization in East European Economies," December 1995. (38 pp.)

752. Corsetti, Giancarlo & Lilia Cavallari. "Policy Making and Speculative Attacks in Models of Exchange Rate Crises: A Synthesis," February 1996. (26 pp.)

753. Hamada, Koichi. "The Structure of Arms Races Before and After the End of the Cold War: From Strategic Substitutes to Strategic Complements,"
December 1995. (26 pp.)

754. Hamada, Koichi & Junichi Goto. "Regional Economic Integration and Article XXIV of the GATT," February 1996. (45 pp.)

755. Srinivasan, T.N. "The Common External Tariff of a Customs Union: Alternative Approaches," April 1996. (32 pp.) [In Japan and the World Economy,
vol. 9, 1997.]

756. Hamada, Koichi. "The Economic Consequences of a Declining Hegemon," May 1996. (49 pp.)

757. Schultz, T. Paul & Aysit Tansel. "Wage and Labor Supply Effects of Illness in Côte D'Ivoire and Ghana: Instrumental Variable Estimates for Days
Disabled," March 1996. (43 pp.) [In Journal of Development Economics, vol. 53, 1997.]

758. Ranis, Gustav. "The Trade-Growth Nexus in Taiwan's Development," May 1996. (41 pp.)

759. Hamada, Koichi. "Consumers, the Legal System and Product Liability Reform: A Comparative Perspective Between Japan and the United States,"
March 1996. (46 pp.)

760. Fardmanesh, Mohsen. "External Shocks and Structural Adjustments: A Dutch Disease Dynamic Analysis," June 1996. (25 pp.)

761. Fardmanesh, Mohsen & Li Tan. "Wage and Price Control Policies in Socialist Transitional Economies," June 1996. (40 pp.)

762. Ranis, Gustav. "Successes and Failures of Development Experience Since the 1980s," September 1996. (28 pp.)

763. McLaren, John. "Corruption, Black Markets, and the Fiscal Problem in LDC's: Some Recent Findings," July 1996 (22pp.)

764. Hamada, Koichi. "Japan 1968: A Reflection Point During the Era of the Economic Miracle," August 1996 (42 pp.)

765. Srinivasan, T.N. "Trade and Human Rights," December 1996 (38 pp.) [In Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern, eds., Constituent Interests and U.S. Trade Policies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.]

766. McLaren, John. "Supplier Relations and the Market Context: A Theory of Handshakes," October 1996 (45 pp.)

767. Srinivasan, T.N. "Regionalism and the World Trade Organization: Is Non-Discrimination Passé?" December 1996 (29 pp.)

768. Chase, Robert S. "Women's Labor Force Participation During and After Communism: A Case Study of the Czech Republic and Slovakia," November
1995 (41 pp.)

769. Chase, Robert S. "Baby Boom or Bust? Changing Fertility in Post-Communist Czech Republic and Slovakia," Novermber 1996 (40 pp.)

770. Chase, Robert S. "Markets for Communist Human Capital: Returns to Education and Experience in the Czech Republic and Slovakia," January 1997. (37 pp.)

771. Evenson, Robert E. "Rice Varietal Improvement and International Exchange of Rice Germplasm," February 1997. (42 pp.) [In Prabhu L. Pingali and Mahabub Hossain, eds., Impact of Rice Research. Manila: International Rice Research Institute, 1998.]

772. Ranis, Gustav. "The Microeconomics of 'Surplus Labor'," February 1997. (24 pp.)

773. Evenson, Robert E. & Wallace B. Huffman. "Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies," June 1997. (37 pp.)

774. Kaneko, Fumihiro. "An Outcome-Oriented Theory of Choice and Empirical Paradoxes in Expected Utility Theory," May 1997. (66 pp.)

775. Lanjouw, Jean O. "The Introduction of Pharmaceutical Product Patents in India: Heartless Exploitation of the Poor and Suffering," August 1997. (53 pp.)

776. Schultz, T. Paul & Germano Mwabu. "Labor Unions and the Distribution of Wages and Employment in South Africa," September 1997. (51 pp.) [In Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 51, no. 4, July 1998.]

777. Evenson, Robert E. & Lakhwinder Singh. "Economic Growth, International Technological Spillovers and Public Policy: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Asia," September 1997. (21 pp.) [In Indian Management Studies Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, 2000.]

778. Schultz, T. Paul. "Income Inequality in Taiwan 1976-1995: Changing Family Composition, Aging, and Female Labor Force Participation," November 1997. (56 pp.) [In Gustav Ranis, Sheng-Cheng Hu and Yun Peng Chu, eds., Political Economy of Taiwan's Development in the 21st Century: Essays in Memory of John Fei. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar Publishers, 1999.]

779. Foley, Mark C. "Determinants of Unemployment Duration in Russia," August 1997. (39 pp.)

780. Foley, Mark C. "Labor Market Dynamics in Russia," August 1997. (54 pp.)

781. Foley, Mark C. "Multiple Job Holding in Russia During Economic Transition," August 1997. (42 pp.)

782. Brown, Donald J. "Three Lectures on the Walrasian Hypotheses for Exchange Economies," August 1997. (17 pp.)

783. Srinivasan, T.N. "As the Century Turns: Analytics, Empirics and Politics of Development," December 1997. (72 pp.) [In Gustav Ranis, Sheng-Cheng Hu and Yun Pen Chu, eds., Taiwan's Development in the 21st Century: Essays in Memory of John Fei. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar Publishers, 1999.]

784. Schultz, T. Paul. "Inequality in the Distribution of Personal Income in the World: How it is Changing and Why," January 1998. (65 pp.) [In Journal of Population Economics, vol. 11, no.3, 1998.]

785. Schultz, T. Paul & Germano Mwabu. "Wage Premia for Education and Location, By Gender and Race in South Africa," February 1998. (63 pp.) [In Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 48, no. 2, 2000.]

786. Ranis, Gustav. "Reflections," December 1997. (29 pp.)

787. Ramirez, Alejandro, Gustav Ranis & Frances Stewart. "Economic Growth and Human Development," December 1997. (47 pp.) [In World Development, vol. 28, no. 2, February 2000.]

788. Lanjouw, Jean O. & Philip I. Levy. "Untitled: A Study of Formal and Informal Property Rights in Urban Ecuador," April 1998. (69 pp.)

789. Tansel, Aysit. "Determinants of School Attainment of Boys and Girls in Turkey," April 1998. (35 pp.)

790. Lanzona, Leonardo A. & Robert E. Evenson. "The Effects of Transactions Costs on Labor Market Participation and Earnings: Evidence from Rural Philippine Markets," October 1997. (25 pp.)

791. Ghatak, Maitreesh & Timothy W. Guinnane. "The Economics of Lending with Joint Liability: Theory and Practice," October 1998. (33 pp.) [In Journal of Development Economics, vol. 60, no. 1, October 1999.]

792. Naranong, Viroj. "Gender, Credit Constraints, and Education in Rural Thailand," April 1998. (47 pp.)

793. Guinnane, Timothy W. "Population and the Economy in Germany, 1800-1990," November 1998. (77 pp.) [In Sheilagh Ogilvie and Richard Overy, eds., A New Social and Economic History, Volume III. London: Hodder Arnold Publishers, 2003.]

794. Holmes, Jessica. "School Completion in Pakistan: Analysis of Censoring and Selection Bias," January 1999. (50 pp.)

795. Lam, Ricky & Leonard Wantchekon. "Dictatorships as a Political Dutch Disease," January 1999. (36 pp.)

796. Levy, Philip I. "Sanctions on South Africa: What Did They Do?" February 1999. (13 pp.) [In The American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, vol. 89, no. 2, May 1999.]

797. Tansel, Aysit. "Public-Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials and Gender in Turkey," February 1999. (28 pp.)

798. Evenson, Robert E. & Germano Mwabu. "The Effects of Agricultural Extension on Farm Yields in Kenya," September 1998. (22 pp.)

799. Sinha, Dipendra. "Export Instability, Investment and Economic Growth in Asian Countries: A Time Series Analysis," April 1999. (23 pp.)

800. Takeda, Yosuke. "Interest Rate Smoothing and Time-Varying Premium: Another Look at Debt Management in Japan," April 1999. (41 pp.)

801. Schultz, T. Paul. "Health and Schooling Investment in Africa," February 1999. (42 pp.) [In Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 13, no. 3, 1999.]

802. Schultz, T. Paul. "Labor Market Reforms: Issues, Evidence and Prospects," June 1999. (55 pp.) [In Anne O. Krueger, ed., Economic Policy Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.]

803. Schultz, T. Paul. "Women's Role in the Agricultural Household: Bargaining and Human Capital," January 1999. (94 pp.) [In B. Gardner and G. Rausser, eds., Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 1. Surry, England: Elsevier Science, 2001.]

804. Schultz, T. Paul & Zeng Yi. "The Impact of Institutional Reform from 1979 to 1987 on Fertility in Rural China," June 1999. (45 pp.) [In China Economic Review, vol. 10, no. 2, 1999.]

805. Evenson, Robert E. & James W. McKinsey, Jr. "Technology -- Climate Interactions in the Green Revolution in India," August 1999. (28 pp.)

806. Srinivasan, T. N. & Jagdish Bhagwati. "Outward-Orientation and Development: Are Revisionists Right?" September 1999. (44 pp.)

807. Del Boca, Daniela & Rocio Ribero. "Visitations and Transfers in Non Intact Households," October 1999. (36 pp.)

808. Ranis, Gustav & Frances Stewart. "Strategies for Success in Human Development," January 2000. (31 pp.) [In Journal of Human Development, vol. 1, no. 1, 2000.]

809. Timmins, Christopher. "Estimating the Amenity Costs of Global Warming in Brazil: Getting the Most from Available Data," November 1999. (42 pp.)

810. Ribero, Rocio. "Earnings Effects of Household Investment in Colombia," November 1999. (35 pp.)

811. Streb, Jochen. "How to Win Schumpeterian Competition: Technological Transfers in the German Plastics Industry from the 1930s to the 1970s," September 1999. (34 pp.)

812. Sharma, Kishor. "Liberalization and Structural Change: Evidence from Nepalese Manufacturing," April 2000. (26 pp.)

813. Sharma, Kishor. "Pattern and Determinants of Intra-Industry Trade in Australian Manufacturing," December 1999. (21 pp.) [In Australian Economic Review, vol. 33, no. 3, September 2000.]

814. Evenson, Robert E., Ayal Kimhi, & Sanjaya DeSilva. "Supervision and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Rice Farms in Bicol, the Philippines," April 2000. (42 pp.)

815. Duraisamy, P. "Changes in Returns to Education in India, 1983-94: By Gender, Age-Cohort and Location," July 2000. (35 pp.)

816. Sharma, Kishor. "Export Growth in India: Has FDI Played a Role?" July 2000. (21 pp.)

817. Conley, Timothy G. & Christopher R. Udry. "Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana," July 2000. (49 pp.) [A revised version of this paper is available: "Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana," May 24, 2004.]

818. Ribero, Rocio. "Family Structure, Fertility and Child Quality in Colombia," July 2000. (41 pp.)

819. DeSilva, Sanjaya. "Skills, Partnerships and Tenancy in Sri Lankan Rice Farms," October 2000. (62 pp.)

820. Corsetti, Giancarlo & Bartosz Mackowiak. "Nominal Debt and the Dynamics of Currency Crises," October 2000. (33 pp.)